Jeff Bezos recently announced that he was bidding adieu to his longtime Seattle digs in favor of a sprawling Miami estate — though it turns out the billionaire Amazon founder actually has a Washington state real-estate portfolio worth $190 million, which includes five previously unreported homes.
Bezos reportedly went on a $45 million home-shopping spree shortly after his highly-publicized divorce in 2019, scooping up four properties in Hunts Point, a haven for the nation’s top 1%, Business Insider revealed after cross-referencing property tax records and records affiliated with Bezos’ business ventures.
The fifth previously-unreported purchase, per the outlet, was a $3.9 million property he bought in 2015 that was directly across the street from his $10 million home in Medina — which was thought to be his primary Seattle-area residence before he announced he was ditching the Pacific Northwest to begin a new life with fiancee Lauren Sanchez in Miami.
The four properties Bezos, 59, reportedly picked up during his 2019 splurge in and around the exclusive Hunts Points enclave included a $37.5 million mansion overlooking Lake Washington.
The 9,400-square-foot manse is set on 3.25 acres and boasts 300 feet of coastline, a rooftop deck with a fireplace and a glass bridge that connects to a guest house.
The buyer was hidden behind an LLC identified as Hunts Point Properties, The Seattle Times reported at the time. The home had been owned by art collector and one of Build-A-Bear Workshop’s initial investors Barney Ebsworth before he died.
Hunts Point — where the average household income is $597,130, according to the World Population Review — has a population of about 400, including tycoons such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, members of the Nordstrom family, telecom magnate Craig McCaw and Costco’s ex-chief James Sinegal, according to BI.
Bezos’ other three purchases — all of which are within a mile of his lavish estate — were bought for staffers, according to the outlet.
The three homes are modest, at least by Bezos’ standards, which he scooped up for between $1.8 million and $3.3 million, Insider reported.
One of the homes, a five-bedroom, four-bath abode in Yarrow Point is currently on the market for just under $4.4 million, and is described by listing agents at Compass-affiliated brokerage Team Foster as “move-in ready” with a “fabulous, light-filled floor plan.”
Representatives for Team Foster did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
These properties were similarly purchased through trusts and LLCs designed to mask Bezos’ identity throughout the transaction, though Insider reported that county records show the entities send their property tax bills to a PO box also used by Blue Origin, Bezos’ aerospace company.
Neighbors of Bezos’ smaller Hunts Point-area properties confirmed to Insider that Bezos’ staff and security live among the three homes.
One resident said they had spoken to the people living in all three properties, who confirmed in conversations that they worked for the Amazon founder, according to Insider.
The resident, who asked to remain unnamed, added that they routinely saw Bezos’ security staff working out in the driveway of one of the homes, which is located next to the only entrance and exit to Hunts Point’s exclusive peninsula, the outlet reported.
That entryway to Bezos’ residence is also reportedly studded with security cameras.
Public records suggested that two Gavin de Becker & Associates agents have ties to one of the three homes Bezos bought for his staff in 2019, Insider found.
The elite security firm is known to guard Bezos, who reportedly spends upwards of $1.6 million annually on his security detail.
At another one of the properties — which neighbors refer to as the “chef house,” according to Insider — employees cook food and deliver it to Bezos’ nearby residence in a “golf cart with a warming oven.”
When Insider visited the property, the outlet saw stacks of sheet pans and cookware stacked up in the kitchen, though no one responded to a knock at the door.
Bezos’ Medina mansion, meanwhile, is located less than 10 miles from Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in the ritzy Evergreen Point neighborhood.
It was also purchased through a trust, and has the same property tax address as the properties Bezos and his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott purchased before their divorce, Insider reported, citing King County records.
Bezos constructed the Medina estate after initially buying a 20,600-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bathroom house for $10 million in 1998. Then in 2005, he reportedly spent $50 million on a neighboring 8,300-square-foot mansion with five bedrooms and four bathrooms.
After a $28 million renovation project that involved demolishing one of the homes and building a singular, massive property that spans 5.3 acres and features a 25,000-square-foot Tudor-style mansion with six bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
There’s also indoor and outdoor pools, a large guest house and waterfront access to Lake Washington.
Representatives for Bezos at Amazon did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The eight-bedroom, 10-bathroom estate contains a koi pond, a European garden, a lagoon-like pool and spa, waterfalls, a tennis court, a tree-lined cobblestone driveway and a courtyard with an outdoor fireplace.
Bezos also owns a 30,000-acre ranch in West Texas, which is near the base of Blue Origin, his startup space company, as well as a $96 million Fifth Avenue apartment that occupies the entire 21st through 24th floors of a building overlooking Madison Square Park.
Bezos’ Miami-area purchases mark a type of homecoming for the mogul, who graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1982.
The transactions, which totals $147 million, includes a $79 million, seven-bed, 14-bath property and a neighboring $68 million, three-bed, three-bath mansion on Florida’s exclusive “Billionaire Bunker” island.
It’s unclear if Bezos — the No. 2 wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of $171 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — plans to merge the two lots and create a singular sprawling residence, similarly to what he did in Medina, Wash.
Indian Creek boasts about 40 waterfront properties all facing the water, along with an 18-hole golf course stretched across 294 acres.
There are also Brazilian teak docks where 100-plus-foot luxury vessels are moored — perfect for his $500 million superyacht Koru, which features a helicopter landing pad, swimming pool, and a mermaid resembling Sanchez adorning the prow.
According to the census, the population of the island is just 81, including fellow Billionaire Bunker homeowners Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kuschner and billionaire car dealer and former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles Norman Braman.
According to The Land Report, Bezos is the 24th-largest landowner in the US, behind former cable media giants John Malone and Ted Turner, as well as lumber heirs, the Emmerson family.
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