Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has paid $90 million for a waterfront estate in the exclusive Indian Creek Village, less than a year after purchasing two waterfront properties on the island for $147 million.
That brings its total spending to $237 million at Indian Creek. The guarded island, where streets are private and only residents and guests are allowed, is north of Miami Beach.
Bezoswhich ceremoniously announced its move to the Miami area last fall, acquired the 10,000-square-foot, seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom mansion at 28 Indian Creek Island Road, Bloomberg reported.
Other Indian Creek residents include billionaire Carl Icahn, hedge funder Eddie Lampert, Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushnerand singer-songwriter Julio Iglesias.
Bezos’ latest property, a nearly 2-acre property, includes a pool and dock. The house was built in 1956 and expanded in 1986 and 2014, according to property records.
Javier Holtz, a former banker, is the seller of the house. Holtz paid $2.5 million for the property in 1998.
Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, are looking for a move-in ready mansion as he builds a new estate on neighboring properties at 11 and 12 Indian Creek Island Road, sources said. The real deal. The adjacent lots contain homes that Bezos will have demolished.
In October, Bezos paid $79 million for the nearly 2-acre estate at 12 Indian Creek in a deal brokered by Dina Goldentayer and Danilo Tavares of Douglas Elliman. A few months earlier, Bezos paid $68 million for the adjacent mansion. This sale was negotiated by Sohely van Woerkom of Golden Ocean Real Estate, managed by Gabriela Espejo.
Bezos is worth about $194 billion, according to Forbes, and is generally the second or third richest person in the world. He went to high school in Miami and graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1982. In 2022, his parents, Mike and Jackie Bezos, purchased two houses by the water in Coral Gables for $78 million.
—Katherine Kallergis
