On May 3, billionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage. According to Forbes, Bill Gates is currently the fourth richest person in the world, with a net worth of $ 130.5 billion. He is also one of eight people who own 100 billion dollars in the world, and the Microsoft co-founder also owns a series of expensive real estate. In which, the most prominent is the Xanadu 2.0 house in Medina, Washington (USA). (Photo: Fancy Pants Homes) Billionaire Bill Gates bought this $ 2 million land in 1988. After that, he took 7 years and spent about $ 63 million to build the house. (Photo: Business Insider) The villa is designed in the style of “in harmony with the land”, half hidden at the foot of the hill and the other half facing the vast green lake. As a result, the temperature of the house is always stable in the range of 17-25 degrees Celsius, whether it is hot outside or a snowstorm. (Photo: Business Insider) In mid-2020, Bill Gates and his wife bought a villa close to the beach in the wealthy town of Del Mar near the city of San Diego, California, for $ 43 million. (Photo: The Guiltinan Group) The villa is about 540 m2, including 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, an outdoor swimming pool and a large terrace overlooking the sea. (Photo: The Guiltinan Group) In addition to modern amenities such as hot tub, fire pit … outside the villa also owns 37m of coastline. (Photo: The Guiltinan Group) Not only that, for many years, billionaire Bill Gates quietly bought 242,000 acres of agricultural land across the United States. In terms of the amount of agricultural land owned, Bill Gates is the owner of the largest agricultural land in the United States. (Photo: Business Insider) According to The Land Report, this billionaire has built a huge portfolio of agricultural land spanning 18 states in the United States. (Photo: Prime Times) In 2013, Bill Gates bought a horse farm in Wellington for $ 8.7 million. Previously, he rented the farm to keep his daughter in a horse race in Florida. (Photo: Business Insider) In October 2014, he bought a 92.2 hectare land plot called Rancho Paseana for $ 18 million. The estate includes a racecourse, guesthouse, office, pet area, orchard and 5 stables. (Photo: Business Insider) In the state of Wyoming, Bill Gates has another larger farm, nearly 200 hectares, purchased for $ 8.9 million in 2009. (Photo: Business Insider) In addition, Bill Gates also has many real estate investments through his personal company called Cascade. He owns a large stake in the Charles Hotel (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He also owns nearly half a stake in Four Season Holding’s hotel chain. (Image: Reuters) In 2013, Gates and a few people bought the Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco for $ 161 million. In 2014, this property was valued at $ 200 million. (Image: Reuters)

According to Forbes magazine, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp has a fortune of up to $ 130 billion. This huge fortune includes the charitable foundation jointly named and the largest in the world by the billionaire and Bill Gates, a large-scale private investment firm and a series of expensive real estate. in U.S.A. The Xanadu 2.0 mansion of the billionaire and billionaire Bill Gates is currently worth more than $ 130 million. (Photo: TNS) In addition to the 98,000-hectare ranch, the once-happy couple owning homes across the United States have been acquired for nearly 30 years including in Washington, California, Montana and Florida. One of the most expensive real estate properties of the billionaire Bill Gates is in Medina, a suburb of Seattle. It is famous for being home to billionaire Bill Gates and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The mansion worth more than $ 130 million is also known as Xanadu 2.0 with an area of ​​more than 6,100 square meters located in Medina. The house has an indoor swimming pool up to 18 m long. In addition, the mansion also has an artificial stream to raise salmon. The villa has 7 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms, an indoor cinema with 20 seats and a dining room of 92 m2 with 24 seats. 195 m2 library in Xanadu 2.0 mansion includes 2 secretly rotating bookcases. Depending on the divorce resolution process, Xanadu 2.0 mansion can be sold to divide the Bill Gates and his wife’s divorce property. According to the divorce document that Bill’s family sent to the court and was announced by TMZ, the couple asked the court to divide the property based on separate contracts and did not mention the prenuptial contract. The divorce petition of the couple was filed with the King County court in Washington and this is also one of the 9 states that have communal property laws of the couple, According to Colleen Sparks, the leading lawyer dealing with family affairs at Talkov Law, in states with communist property laws, divorced couples are required to divide all assets in the period. live together fairly. Since billionaire Bill Gates bought the Xanadu 2.0 mansion after he got married in 1994, this means that the world’s fourth-largest billionaire is not the complete owner of this $ 130 million estate. . According to Mr. Sparks, if Bill Gates and his wife do not reach an agreement to buy a mansion in Medina, the court may be forced to sell expensive real estate. But according to Ellen Griffith, an expert in charge of the division of real estate upon divorce, because the Bill Gates and his wife’s house was bought after they got married, it is likely that this fortune will be divided equally by 50 / 50. But according to Ms. Griffith, “They can make an absolute effort to have real estate. It will be a great fight ”. In addition to the large mansion in Medina, Bill Gates and his wife also own 3 homes in California. In 1999, the couple spent $ 12.5 million to buy 1,263 square meters of land in the resort city of Indian Wells. In 2014, the couple continued to withdraw a $ 18 million purse to buy a 92-hectare horse farm owned by weight loss expert Jenny Craig. Bill Gates and his wife are the most expensive deal in California in 2020 when they spend $ 43 million to buy a house overlooking the sea in Del Mar. This house is just 36 meters from the beach. This is the 2nd most expensive real estate deal in history in the city of San Diego.