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Los Angeles led the top 10 most expensive home sales in June, highlighting Paris Hilton’s purchase of the $63 million Beverly Hills Mansion.
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The 9,458-square-foot Jupiter Island home in Florida, once belonging to billionaire Bill Gates, is on the market.
The 100 Harborway home was listed in April by Susan Hemmes of Sotheby’s International Realty and is on the market for $23.5 million.
According to Satheby’s international realtiling, the home has direct access to coaster-to-coasters, seven bathrooms, two half bathrooms, four bedrooms and a boat lift.
Gates owned the home from 2009 to 2018, and bought it for $5 million, according to Martin County property appraisal records. According to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, he purchased it under Front Range Investment Holdings, a Colorado LLC registered in Kirkland, Washington, where the investment company is located.
According to Martin County Property Appraiser Records, the home was sold for $4 million in 2018.
This was not the only home tied to the Microsoft billionaire on the Treasure Coast in southeastern Florida. In 2009, Gates purchased a European-style villa with a 10,000 square feet of Hove Sound for $5 million, Architectural Digest reported. He sold the house in 2013 for $5 million.
How rich is Bill Gates?
According to Forbes, the technology mogul who co-founded Microsoft, Gates is one of the richest people in the world. He was ranked 14th on the Forbes 400 list of the country’s wealthiest people this year, and has fallen to several spots after dominating the number one or second spots on the list since 1991.
Despite his rankings decline, he still has an exorbitant amount of wealth. However, he planned a fall as one of the richest people on the planet.
Gates plans to hand out “virtually everything” through the Gates Foundation by 2045, he wrote on his website in a May 2025 blog post. Since the foundation was founded in 2000, it has given $100 billion over 25 years.
“I will distribute virtually all of my wealth through the Gates Foundation for the next 20 years to save and improve lives around the world,” Gates wrote in Gates’ notes. “And on December 31, 2045, the foundation will permanently close that door.”
Gianna Montesano is a trend reporter for Tcpalm. Contact her at gianna.montesano@tcpalm.com, 772-409-1429 or follow her at X @gonthescene.
