- Jeff Bezos announced that he’s moving to Miami after 29 years in Seattle.
- He snapped up two mansions in the city’s “billionaire bunker” and leaves behind eight properties in Washington.
- 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 property owners. 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.
His collection includes two properties in Miami, where he recently announced he’d be relocating with his fiancée Lauren Sanchez, and eight in Seattle, Washington — his former home. Bezos’ Seattle-area real estate empire — including five homes that, until recently, had not been previously reported on — is worth as much as $190 million, based on Zillow estimates.
“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 in November, announcing his move, adding that he wanted to be closer to his parents and Blue Origin’s operations in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
In August, Bezos spent $68 million on a waterfront mansion on Miami’s Indian Creek Village — an island sometimes called the “billionaire bunker” — and two months later, he spent another $79 million on the mansion next door.
It’s not the first time Bezos has spent jaw-dropping amounts on real estate: 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 is worth $172 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 it is unclear if Bezos now controls some of those properties, or if they went to Scott in the divorce, records of which are not public.
From two neighboring Beverly Hills mansions to a multiple estates in exclusive Seattle suburbs, here are Bezos’ residential properties in the US.
Caroline Cakebread, Katie Warren, Dominic-Madori Davis, and Libertina Brandt contributed to an earlier version of this article.
