According to the 2022 US Land Report, Jeff Bezos is the 24th largest landowner in the US, with direct ownership of at least nearly 170,000 hectares of land.Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has just announced on Twitter that he will move to Miami after 29 years of living in Seattle (USA).

In August, the billionaire spent $68 million to buy a riverside villa in Indian Creek, Miami. Two months later, he spent another 79 million USD on the villa next door.

It’s not the first time Bezos has spent huge amounts of money on real estate.

Neighbors of a series of technology billionaires in WashingtonBezos and his ex-wife lived for decades in a nearly 24,000 square meter plot of land in Medina, Seattle, Washington state.

Jeff Bezos’ residence in Medina, a suburb of Seattle (Photo: Business Insider).

In 1998, Bezos paid $10 million to buy real estate on the shore of Lake Washington. Twelve years later, he spent another $45 million to buy the land next door, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported.

On this plot of land, his family lives in a villa of  24,000 square meters with 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms and a listed price of 53 million USD. Jeff Bezos’s neighbors in the area include Bill Gates as well as many other technology and media entrepreneurs.

A few months after the divorce in 2019, Bezos spent $45 million to buy 4 properties in another bustling area of Medina. The most expensive property in this spending spree is worth $37.5 million in Hunts Point, a neighborhood with fewer than 400 residents.

Jeff Bezos’ real estate in the wealthy area of Medina (Photo: Business Insider).

Own a series of apartments in New York

The first major purchase in New York was the purchase of three apartments for $7.65 million in Manhattan. These apartments are located in The Century building, purchased in 1999 from former Sony Music executive Tommy Mottola. In 2012, Jeff Bezos bought another apartment in the building, worth $5.3 million.​

In 1999, Jeff Bezos bought 3 apartments in New York for $7.65 million (Photo: Business Insider).

Two months after completing the divorce proceedings, Jeff Bezos is said to have spent about 80 million USD on 3 apartments in New York.​

Bezos bought a penthouse and two other apartments at 212 Fifth Avenue (Photo: Business Insider).

Buy a whole big valley in Texas

His next major real estate investment was a large valley of nearly 67,000 hectares near the town of Van Horn, Texas in 2004. Bezos spent millions of dollars to renovate the land. This place is mainly used as the headquarters of aerospace company Blue Origin.

The valley in Texas is the headquarters of aerospace company Blue Origin (Photo: Business Insider).

California’s largest real estate deal

Bezos also owns many expensive real estate in Beverly Hills, California, and Los Angeles.

He once made the largest transaction in California real estate history when he bought a villa for $165 million from billionaire David Geffen. David Gaffen bought this mansion in 1990 for $47.5 million. The mansion includes a tennis court, swimming pool and a 9-hole golf course.

The villa was bought by Jeff Bezos for 165 million USD (Photo: Google Maps).

Buy a home in Hawaii’

In 2021, Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez bought a house in Hawaii. According to The New York Times, Bezos paid about $78 million for this house.