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This property has long been considered one of the most prominent coastal contemporary beach homes on the West Coast and a treasured landmark in Del Mar. more
See full version: Bill and Melinda Gates’ San Diego home will take your breath away – tour this extraordinary property
This property has long been considered one of the most prominent coastal contemporary beach homes on the West Coast and a treasured landmark in Del Mar. more
The property is available via The Guiltinan Group, theguiltinangroup.com [links]
The billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates have purchased an extraordinary beach house outside San Diego – splashing out on $43 million for an oceanfront mansion in the coastal town of Del Mar, California.
Madeleine Pickens bought it for $35 million but the total grew to $48.2 million when three adjacent parcels were added to the deal. [links]
The property is an earth-sheltered house built into the side of a hill with Douglas fir timbers, stainless steel roof, and concrete foundation with steel reinforcements several times stronger than the minimums set by the local building code to prevent earthquake damages. more
To ensure privacy, much of the structure is buried into the hillside, but windows on the lakefront side of the house provide views of the lake and Seattle to the west. [links]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his family live in a 66,000 square foot estate on the shore of Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The nickname for the home is Xanadu 2.0, after the estate of the title character in the movie Citizen Kane.
Inside the mansion, there is a grand staircase, a family wing, a guest wing, a theatre, exercise facilities, and a pool building with a 17-by-60 foot swimming pool that has an underwater music system. [links]
Gates, who rose to prominence as co-founder of Microsoft, bought the Del Mar, California home for $43 million, the Wall Street Journal first reported. It was reportedly one of the largest ever sales in the area. more
The Gates' real estate portfolio is estimated to be worth over $200 million. Now with the news that Gates and his wife of 27 years, Melinda, are ending their marriage, the properties could be divided up. [links]
Bill and Melinda Gates bought an oceanfront property near San Diego last year.
The Del Mar property was last on the market for $48 million before it was purchased by the Gates in late March 2020. It was previously owned by Madeleine Pickens, the ex-wife of Texas billionaire and hedge fund manager T. Boone Pickens. [links]
Dubbed Xanadu 2.0, the five-acre property sits on the shore of Lake Washington in Medina, Wash. Although the lavish residence is worth a nine-figure tally, it's just a sliver of Gates’ net worth.
For decades now, Bill Gates’ house has been in the spotlight. The Microsoft co-founder even included a walkthrough of the lakefront property on the CD-ROM included with his 1995 book The Road Ahead.
The 66,000-square-foot property includes a family wing (with an exercise room, a trampoline room, a swimming pool with an underwater music system), a guest wing (with a theater, a domed library, a formal dining room, and a reception hall), a guest house, an underground 10-car garage, a boathouse, a gatehouse, an outdoor spa, a multi-sport court, a putting green, and two boat docks, according to U.S. News & World Report. here