Report: Jeff Bezos sells $63M mansion near Seattle — a record price for Washington state home sale

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the seller of a $63 million mansion in Hunts Point, Wash., just east of Seattle, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported Thursday.

The newspaper, which first reported on the sale Wednesday, noted that the sale shattered the state’s previous home sale price record. The Journal cited an industry source in confirming Bezos as the onetime owner.

Bezos acquired the sprawling waterfront estate at 4053 Hunts Point Road in 2019 for $37.5 million, which also broke the state record, set in 2018 when a Medina mansion sold for $26.75 million.

The sale this week was to a buyer called Cayan Investments LLC, according to the Journal. It incorporated in Delaware in March and has a post office box in Medina. The seller is Hunts Point Properties Trust whose trustee is attorney Kristine Wilson.

The 9,420-square-foot home was designed in 2003 by Seattle architect Jim Olson, of the firm Olson Kundig, and was once owned by the late Barney Ebsworth, a luxury travel magnate and prominent art collector who died in 2018.

The Olson Kundig website describes the property as an “understated house on the shore of Lake Washington” with a design that “weaves art and nature together.”

Hunts Point is a wealthy enclave that’s home to other prominent billionaires and business elite, such as former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Costco co-founder James Sinegal.

In a “peek inside” the mansion in 2019, The Seattle Times said the three-bedroom, four-bath home sits on 300 feet of west-facing Lake Washington shoreline. It features a rooftop deck with a fireplace, elevator, catering kitchen, two-story guesthouse, and a glass-enclosed shower that juts into a walled Japanese garden.

Bezos, who announced in November 2023 that he was leaving Seattle for Florida, is the second richest person in the world with a net worth of $198 billion, according to Forbes.

The Journal reported that Bezos still owns two properties as part of a portfolio he originally amassed in the Hunts Point and Medina areas: a 30,000-square-foot Tudor-style mansion acquired in 2010 for $45 million; and adjacent property in 1998 for $10 million.

Business Insider reported in 2023 on Bezos’ real estate spending spree after his 2019 divorce from MacKenzie Scott. The site also spoke to Hunts Point residents about what kind of neighbor Bezos was, and some reportedly said he was notably absent from community events such as “Cleanup Day.”

In the exclusive South Florida community where he moved with fiancèe Lauren Sanchez, Bezos has purchased mansions next door to one another for $79 million and $68 million.