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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos just sold his mansion in Seattle. He and the fiancé Lauren Sanchez moved there about 18 months ago and owned a $ 237 million property there. Sales of the Seattle mansion was the biggest record for the state of Washington.
Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos just sold his estate in Seattle after nearly two years of life in Miami with his fiancé Lauren Sanchez. This is the most expensive home ever sold in the state of Washington, Puget Sound Business Journal It was first reported last week to attract a 63 million dollars, real estate records show. The property was sold to Cayan Investments LLC.
Bezos, worth over $ 200 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, bought the property of 9,420 square feet in 2019, the same year as his divorce from novelist and philanthropist Mackenzie Scott. He bought it for $ 37.5 million, so he made more than $ 25 million from the sale.
The scattered mansion is sitting at 3.27 acres in the elite neighborhood of Hunts Point in King, Washington, which is looking at Lake Washington. This is only about seven miles from Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle and other major technology companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Google. The average price of the home there is nearly $ 8 million, according to Zillow. The prices of homes in Seattle have been increasing since the city became a technology center, and now it is one of the most price markets in housing in the country.
The former Bezos’ home in Washington has three bedrooms, four bathrooms, an elevator, a massive wardrobe, a secondary kitchen, a roof terrace and a glass path that connects the property to a two -storey guest house. The mansion extends to more than 300 feet across the shore of Lake Washington.
According to the Property Records, the home was previously owned by the late art collector and the executive director of luxury trips Barney A. Ebsworth, who was also one of the original investors in Build-A-Bear.
Bezos and Sanchez made the transition from Seattle to Miami about a year and a half ago, claiming that the reason for the change was to be closer to his parents.
“My parents have always been my biggest supporters,” he published on his Instagram account, adding that his aerospace company Blue Origin is increasingly transferring Cape Canavel’s operations to Florida. Sanchez recently took a flight of blue origin in space with a crew of all women, including Katie Perry and Gail King.
Seattle was also home to Bezos ever since he started Amazon in 1994.
“I lived in Seattle longer than I lived anywhere else and I have so many incredible memories here,” Bezos said in his Instagram post, announcing his move. “Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”
In the meantime, Bezos is also speculated to move to Miami to avoid paying a tax on capital profits. In March 2023, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington decided to maintain a 7% tax on capital profits, which would become increasingly expensive for Bezos.
“Florida is very, very favorable to someone like Jeff Bezos,” John Panthekidis, a managing partner and general advisor at Twinfocus, who manages over $ 7 billion for ultra-high families, told families earlier, said earlier to families. FortuneAlicia Adamchik. “They make very profitable for people like Jeff to live there. It’s perfect, it’s nirvana.”
He and Sanchez are now living in a three -masian compound in the highly exceptional neighborhood of the Indian Creek in Miami, also known as a billioner bunker. Bezos bought his last mansion in Miami in 2024 for $ 90 million, leading to the total value of the property he owns in the Indian Creek to about $ 237 million. The last property he purchased is a six -bedroom mansion, nine bathrooms covering over 12,000 square feet. There are only approximately 40 homes on the island Rob report.
Other celebrities, including Tom Brady and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, lived in this community from a closed 300 acres, which is “one of the richest, private, most secure communities in Miami Beach and the world,” according to Florida Luxury real estate company The Light Grou.
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