The Seattle-area mansion that offered for $63 million this week, breaking the state report for a house sale, belonged to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, in response to media reviews.
The 9,420-square-foot waterfront luxurious house in Hunts Level was as soon as owned by prolific artwork collector Barney Ebsworth, who died in 2018. His property offered the mansion to Bezos in 2019 for a then-record $37.5 million.
Bezos bought the house by way of an entity known as Hunts Level Properties Belief. It’s not unusual for multimillion-dollar actual property offers to checklist consumers as newly created trusts and limited-liability firms to obscure the client. Enterprise Insider reported in 2023 the Hunts Level Street house, and a beforehand undisclosed portfolio of a number of Seattle-area properties, belonged to Bezos.
The Puget Sound Enterprise Journal first reported on the sale this week.
It’s a three-bedroom, four-bath house on a bit of property alongside 300 toes of Lake Washington waterfront, The Seattle Instances reported in 2019. It contains a rooftop deck with a fire and a catering kitchen separate from the principle kitchen.
The luxe options don’t cease there. The house additionally consists of an elevator and a glass bridge that connects to a two-story guesthouse.
The $63 million price ticket was a giant bounce from the most costly house gross sales final 12 months, most of which occurred in Medina. The biggest sale in 2024 was a $38.9 million Medina mansion.
The 12 months was a comparatively down 12 months for luxurious actual property, with 14 single-family properties in Western Washington offered for $10 million or extra in contrast with 16 gross sales in 2023 and 19 in 2022.
As of March, the median house value on the Eastside was $1.7 million.
Bezos bought the house and several other others after his divorce from MacKenzie Scott, in response to Enterprise Insider. Some housed private workers of his.
The Amazon founder introduced in November 2023 he was leaving the Seattle space for Florida, particularly for the enclave of Indian Creek within the Miami space. He’s bought two properties there, subsequent door to one another, for $79 million and $68 million every.
He mentioned he was shifting to the Miami space to be nearer to his mother and father and the rising Blue Origin operations in Cape Canaveral.
Bezos is the second-richest particular person on the earth with a internet value of $198 billion, in response to Forbes’ real-time billionaires checklist. Elon Musk is the richest, with a internet value of $370 billion.
