Why Jeff Bezos Would possibly Be Loading up on Houses in Miami

• Jeff Bezos lately left Seattle to maneuver to the swanky Indian Creek neighborhood close to Miami.
• Based on Bloomberg, he is making an attempt to purchase up a number of of his neighboring properties.
• He did this at his final dwelling close to Seattle, utilizing the additional homes for employees.

Indian Creek, a tiny island enclave close to Miami that has earned the nickname Billionaire Bunker, has fewer than 100 residents and is accessible solely by a gated bridge. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lately purchased two properties on the island and is reportedly now scouting out much more properties.

That is proper, he is bunkermaxxing.

Bezos purchased a $68 million greenback mansion on the island in August 2023, after which a couple of months later purchased the dwelling subsequent door for $79 million.

Based on Bloomberg, Bezos may be trying to develop his bunker:

Bezos emissaries have reached out to at the very least three different householders on the island about buying their properties, in keeping with folks conversant in the matter, who requested to not be recognized discussing personal issues. Conversations are ongoing.

Bezos’s fast neighbors are Edward Lampert, the previous CEO of Sears, and Bob Diener, the founding father of Inns.com. The Bloomberg report did not specify which properties Bezos may be trying to purchase — whether or not it was his direct neighbors or someplace else on the island.

Within the tiny enclave of Hunts Level, simply exterior Seattle, Bezos purchased three properties within the gated neighborhood close to his own residence. Residents in Hunts Level informed Enterprise Insider that workers and safety for Bezos have been residing in these extra properties. It is doable he desires to do the identical factor in Miami.

One other chance is he simply desires extra privateness from neighbors.

Again in 2013, Mark Zuckerberg purchased the 4 properties surrounding his personal for privateness (and leased the homes again to the residents, in a flex). Zuckerberg is presently bunkermaxxing his Hawaii dwelling, with plans for a whole doomsday bunker.

Contemplating how shut Bezos’s house is to the water, an underground bunker appears inadvisable (although unpermitted DIY bunkers are all of the rage on TikTok).