Shocking news came from the richest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, who resigned from the position of CEO of e-commerce giant, Amazon. Bezos will step down in the third quarter of 2021 to then serve as chairman of Amazon’s executive board. Apart from being a conglomerate with extraordinary income, Bezos also has a hobby of collecting property.
Quoting Business Insider, Wednesday (3/2/2021) Bezos owns massive properties across the US, from his home state in Washington to New York City. The 2017 Land Report named Bezos as the 28th largest land owner in the US.
A transaction that has only been carried out in recent years, namely in June 2019, Bezos bought three apartments in nearby New York City for US $ 80 million.
The purchase was called the most expensive deal on South 42nd Street in New York. The apartment has a total of 12 bedrooms and a total area of 17,000 square feet or 1,579 m2.
Last year, he also bought the Warner Estate in Beverly Hills. According to The Wall Street Journal, Bezos bought the nine-acre property for US $ 165 million from billionaire David Geffen. This is the most expensive house ever sold in the Los Angeles area.
Bezos also has property in Medina
As for the luxury houses that Bezos owns. Two houses in Medina covering an area of 5.3 hectares. According to the Wall Street Journal, Bezos paid US $ 10 million for the property in 1998. On this large piece of land Bezos built two houses.
The first house is 20,600 square feet or 1,913 m2, with five bedrooms and four bathrooms. The second house is 8,300 square feet or 771 m2 with five bedrooms, four bathrooms and is rumored to cost US $ 53 million.
He also has a Spanish-style house, this was purchased in 2007 for US $ 24.45 million. Ten years later, Bezos bought a smaller house next door. Apparently, the first home in Beverly Hills didn’t quite fit Bezos’ space requirements.
In 2017, he bought a relatively modest, 4,568-square-foot, four-bedroom home for US $ 12.9 million right next door to his first home.
The properties that Bezos owns also include Bezos’ private space company, Blue Origin. Additionally, there is a former textile museum in Washington, DC that was purchased for US $ 23 million.
Jeff Bezos also owns three condos in the historic Manhattan building overlooking Central Park. It was bought for US $ 7.65 million in 1999. Then in 2021 Bezos bought an additional unit for US $ 5.3 million and now owns four condos in a historic building.
However, since Bezos separated from his ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos in 2019. Everything earned during the marriage from real estate to income is considered joint property in Bezos’ home state in Washington.
To date, Bezos remains the richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US $ 188 billion, while MacKenzie Bezos now has a wealth of more than US $ 57 billion, making her one of the richest women in the world.
