The Seattle-area mansion that sold for $63 million this week, breaking the state record for a home sale, belonged to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to media reports.
The 9,420-square-foot waterfront luxury home in Hunts Point was once owned by prolific art collector Barney Ebsworth, who died in 2018. His estate sold the mansion to Bezos in 2019 for a then-record $37.5 million.
Bezos purchased the home through an entity called Hunts Point Properties Trust. It’s not uncommon for multimillion-dollar real estate deals to list buyers as newly created trusts and limited-liability corporations to obscure the buyer. Business Insider reported in 2023 the Hunts Point Road home, and a previously undisclosed portfolio of several Seattle-area properties, belonged to Bezos.
The Puget Sound Business Journal first reported on the sale this week.
It’s a three-bedroom, four-bath home on a piece of property along 300 feet of Lake Washington waterfront, The Seattle Times reported in 2019. It features a rooftop deck with a fireplace and a catering kitchen separate from the main kitchen.
The luxe features don’t stop there. The home also includes an elevator and a glass bridge that connects to a two-story guesthouse.
The $63 million price tag was a big jump from the most expensive home sales last year, most of which occurred in Medina. The largest sale in 2024 was a $38.9 million Medina mansion.
The year was a relatively down year for luxury real estate, with 14 single-family homes in Western Washington sold for $10 million or more compared with 16 sales in 2023 and 19 in 2022.
As of March, the median home price on the Eastside was $1.7 million.
Bezos purchased the home and several others after his divorce from MacKenzie Scott, according to Business Insider. Some housed personal employees of his.
The Amazon founder announced in November 2023 he was leaving the Seattle area for Florida, specifically for the enclave of Indian Creek in the Miami area. He’s purchased two homes there, next door to each other, for $79 million and $68 million each.
He said he was moving to the Miami area to be closer to his parents and the growing Blue Origin operations in Cape Canaveral.
Bezos is the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of $198 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires list. Elon Musk is the richest, with a net worth of $370 billion.
