Jeff Bezos announced he is relocating to Miami, one of the many places he owns property. Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images
Jeff Bezos announced this week that he’s moving to Miami after 29 years in Seattle.
A few months ago, he snapped up two mansions in the city’s “billionaire bunker.”
He has a massive real estate portfolio and is the 24th-largest landowner in the US, per The Land Report.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has amassed a real estate portfolio that rivals that of some of America’s most famous proprieters. He’s the 24th-largest landowner in the US, according to the 2022 Land Report, with at least with 420,000 acres to his name.
Those properties include two in Miami, where he recently announced he’d be relocating with his fiancée Lauren Sanchez.
“I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here. As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart,” Bezos wrote on Instagram.
He continued to explain he wanted to be closer to his parents and Blue Origin’s operations in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The move comes just a few months after he snapped up a $68 million waterfront mansion on Miami’s Indian Creek Village — an island sometimes called the “billionaire bunker.”
The pricetag broke records for the Florida hotspot, but it’s not the first time Bezos has done so. In 2019, he dropped about $80 million on three adjacent New York City apartments in the priciest real-estate deal south of Manhattan’s 42nd Street.
The following year Bezos purchased the nine-acre Warner Estate in Beverly Hills for $165 million from billionaire David Geffen. At the time, it was the most expensive home ever sold in California’s history.
Bezos, who’s worth $161 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, purchased a number of properties with his then-wife MacKenzie Scott. Their divorce was finalized in 2019 and some of those residences were divided up between them.
From two neighboring Beverly Hills mansions to a sprawling estate in an exclusive Seattle suburb, here are all the residential properties Bezos has snapped up in the US.
Caroline Cakebread, Katie Warren, Dominic-Madori Davis, and Libertina Brandt contributed to an earlier version of this article.
Jeff Bezos has spent millions of dollars amassing a collection of residential properties over the years.
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A 2022 Land Report named Bezos the country’s 24th-largest landowner, with 420,000 acres to his name.
Over the years, he’s picked up several New York City apartments, a ranch in Texas, and homes in Washington state, California, and Washington, DC.
Medina, on a peninsula just across Lake Washington from Seattle, is an exclusive suburb that’s also home to Bill Gates, as well as other Microsoft bigwigs, tech entrepreneurs, and telecom magnates.
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Many of the neighborhood’s mansions are hidden away behind gates and protected by elaborate security systems.
A year after purchasing his Medina mansion, Bezos shelled out $7.65 million for three apartments on Central Park West in Manhattan.
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The three units, in The Century building on Manhattan’s the Upper West Side, were purchased from former Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, The Observer reported at the time.
More than a decade later, in 2012, he bought an additional unit in the building, $5.3 million in 2012, making him the owner of four condos in the building.
The Art Deco building was built in the 1930s, and boasts a concierge, elevator attendants, and three separate entrances.
As of 2021, Bezos and his ex-wife appear to still own the four units.
His next big buy was a massive ranch near the town of Van Horn, Texas.
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In 2004, Bezos purchased Corn Ranch, an 165,000-acre stretch of land outside of Van Horn, Texas.
While he reportedly told the local paper he bought the property so his family would get the chance to live on a ranch like he did when he visited his grandfather as a child, it seems he’s mainly has been using the land for his aerospace company Blue Origin’s rocket launches.
The land included a home that the seller said they spent “millions” renovating.
Bezos’ Texas ranch. Google Earth
The U-shaped ranch house seen above is a remnant from the seller, who told The Wall Street Journal that he put “millions” into renovating it. Behind the home is a bunkhouse that sleeps 12 people.
The property is mainly used as the base for Bezos’ space company Blue Origin.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard. Blue Origin
As his space company has grown, he’s added to his Texas acreage.
Bezos and other passengers were onboard when Blue Origin successfully completed its first passenger spaceflight in 2021.
Three years after buying The Washington Post in 2013, Bezos bought a former textile museum in DC’s Kalorama.
Initially, the museum’s buyer remained anonymous before it was revealed to be Bezos. Getty Images
He spent $23 million on the property, which dates back to 1912 and has a spot on the National Register of Historic Places, The Washington Post reported.
The neighborhood is a hot spot for Washington bigwigs.
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The Obamas purchased an $8.1 million property nearby in 2017, which marked the second-most expensive transaction in the neighborhood — after Bezos’ — The Washington Post reported.
The two joint structures on Bezos’ property have nearly 27,000 square feet of living space, making it the largest home in Washington, DC.
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It’s been reported that Bezos may have also purchased the home across the street January 2020 for $5 million, though Insider could not confirm he owns the property.
In June 2019, two months after Bezos and MacKenzie Scott finalized their divorce, the former Amazon CEO reportedly dropped about $80 million on three adjacent New York City apartments.
Bezos bought a penthouse and two additional units at 212 Fifth Avenue. Marketing by Visualhouse
The spread included a three-story penthouse and two units directly below it.
It was the priciest real estate deal south of Manhattan’s 42nd Street, appraiser Jonathan Miller told The Wall Street Journal at the time.
Renderings of the inside of the apartment from creative agency VisualHouse show the opulence of the penthouse.
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Bezos has since purchased two more units inside the prewar building. In 2020, he spent $16 million on an additional unit, and purchased a $23 million apartment in the building in 2021.
The purchases brought his grand total to $119 million of real estate in the one building, which has a fitness center, golf simulator, game room, and movie-screening room, according to the property’s website.
Bezos also owns property in Beverly Hills, California, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
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He first bought property in the cushy neighborhood in 2007, shelling out $24.45 million for a mansion that had tennis courts, a guesthouse, a six-car garage, and a pool, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time. In 2017, he bought the house next door for $12.9 million.
Scott seems to have gotten both of those homes in the divorce. Last year, she donated the two mansions to a housing charity.
After his divorce, he broke California records when he purchased the Warner Estate in 2020.
The Warren Estate used to belong to fellow billionaire David Geffen. Google Earth
The estate was designed for Jack Warner — the former president of Warner Bros. Studios — in the 1930s.
The most expensive home sale in California’s history at the time, Bezos purchased the house for $165 million from David Geffen, who bought it in 1990 for $47.5 million.
The mansion has guest homes, a tennis court, a swimming pool, and a nine-hole golf course.
A Google Maps satellite view of the Jack Warner Estate. Google Maps
Like many of his other homes, privacy is key at the Warner Estate. Hedges surround the nine acres on which the 13,600-square-foot home sits.
In 2021, Bezos and his now-fiancée Lauren Sanchez bought a home in Hawaii.
Bezos and Sanchez pledged $100 million to aid Maui amid fire devastation. Carlo Chirchirillo/Shutterstock
Bezos paid about $78 million for the Maui home, according to The New York Times.
In the weeks leading up to the purchase, Bezos made several donations to local organizations — including Hawaii Land Trust and Mālama Family Recovery Center, local news site Maui Now reported.
Sanchez announced that she and Bezos would donate $100 million to help Maui after neighborhoods on the island were devastated by fires.
“Jeff and I are heartbroken by what’s happening in Maui. We are thinking of all the families that have lost so much and a community that has been left devastated,” Sanchez wrote on Instagram.
Their notable island neighbors include fellow billionaires Oprah Winfrey, Paul Thiel, and Oracle executive Larry Ellison, according to the Times.
Bezos recently purchased a home in Indian Creek, another billionaire hotspot.
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In August, he added a $68 million mansion on Miami’s “billionaire bunker” island, Indian Creek Village, to his portfolio.
The home reportedly spans 9,300 square feet, and the entire property is about 2.8 acres. The exclusive island has been home to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Tom Brady, and billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
He’s reportedly also snapped up the home next door.
Jeff Bezos has reportedly purchased more property in Indian Creek, an artificial barrier island in Miami. Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Images; Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Bezos bought the seven-bedroom Indian Creek mansion for $79 million in October, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources.
The nearly 2-acre mansion was built in 2000 and boasts features like a home theater, library, pool, and wine cellar.
