Now that the famous billionaire couple has filed for divorce, if this mansion is put on the real estate market, they will surely have many difficulties to find a buyer. With an area of ​​​​more than 6,100 square meters – the same size as the White House – with a large room just for children to play on a trampoline, and a price of about 130 million USD, many real estate brokers find it difficult to sell this mansion. Billionaire Bill Gates and his wife divorced after 27 years of marriage “We are all very impressed with this home,” says Ernie Carswell of Douglas Elliman, a Los Angeles-based brokerage with more than 25 years selling some of the city’s most extravagant and most expensive properties. Its owners are too rich, and they are all respected people in the world.” “They have a great house,” he said. But now if it is for sale, it is a difficult problem for brokers.” This mansion is named Xanadu 2.0, although in the records it is referred to more simply as the Gates Mansion. This is the main residence of Bill Gates and his wife. Located on the shores of Lake Washington near Seattle, Xanadu 2.0 is the crown jewel of Bill Gates and his wife’s huge real estate collection worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The Microsoft founder once confided on Reddit in 2019: “I have a beautiful house. It has a room to play trampoline, for my children to release energy.” Details about this fortress-like house were revealed only gradually over time, a little bit at a time. A Microsoft intern who visited this place in 2007 recorded: “The driveway to Mr. Bill’s house is like the entrance to a Jurassic park, long, windy, deep and luxuriant with trees.” Xanadu 2.0 is the most precious gem in the huge real estate collection worth hundreds of millions of dollars of Bill Gates and his wife. Of course, this mansion serves all the needs of enjoyment, rest and living of the owner: spa room, swimming pool, gym paved with stone taken from the mountain top in the Pacific Northwest, a stream. stream for salmon and other fish. The swimming pool is located in a private building over 360 m2, has a unique design that allows swimming under the glass wall to move to the outside corridor. Every device in the house is equipped with high technology, from the sensor system to the lighting… The massive area of ​​Xanadu 2.0 currently exceeds all properties available on the market in Washington state. According to Mansion Global, a house built according to the owner’s design, the largest and most luxurious in the area, can be very difficult to sell. The Chicago mansion of former NBA star Michael Jordan is a prime example. At more than 5,200 square metres, Jordan’s home is three times the size of the largest homes in the area and has been specially designed to suit the owner’s taste and lifestyle. So there’s a standard basketball court, an infinity pool. The basketball legend was originally listed for sale for $29 million in 2012 and to this day this mansion is still on the list for sale for a much lower price: $14.8 million. In the case of Bill Gates’ house, Mr. Carswell said: “The house will only appeal to a very small number of customers who are served by a maid. You must be able to afford to maintain an area of ​​more than 6,000 square meters. Who’s going to sweep and clean the dust?” Last year, Bill Gates paid $1.13 million in property taxes for Xanadu 2.0. And finally, real estate experts say, if Bill Gates or Mrs. Melinda want to sell it, it is unlikely that they will put it up for sale publicly, but will only offer it in a narrow range. Because they know who can afford to buy.

The area of ​​​​the villa is more than 6,100 square meters, almost the size of a football field, located on the shores of Lake Washington. According to The New York Times, the villa includes a spa room, an 18-meter swimming pool, a gym that is paved with stones from the Pacific Northwest mountains, a trout stream and other fish species. The mansion is commonly known as Xanadu 2.0. In particular, Xanadu is the name of a large, lavish property belonging to the tycoon in the movie Citizen Kane. The suffix 2.0 refers to the technology initiatives of Bill Gates. Details of Mr. Gates’ mansion remain confidential. Photo: Wikipedia According to TechCrunch, details about the mansion are kept secret by the Gates family. A tour of the area was auctioned for $35,000 in 2009. A Microsoft Corporation intern is allowed to write about the visit to the mansion on the company blog. According to him, it was built with “orange wood” and sand imported from Hawaii. “Walking down Bill’s driveway was like going to Jurassic Park. The view was overwhelming,” the person described. The villa, designed by architects James Cutler and Peter Bohlin, is divided into terraced areas into “a hill” 50 meters long. Melinda Gates, Bill Gates’ ex-wife, once said that the mansion caused her “crisis” and was “a nightmare for a bride”. It has “all kinds of software and high-tech screens to make it feel like living in a video game”. Mr. Gates built his dream home before marrying Ms. Melinda in 1994. But construction was halted when she visited. Gates once mentioned the idea of ​​a smart home, where guests would be given a badge to be able to communicate with sensors around the mansion. As they walk through the rooms, the lights will dim or light up, music will play, the temperature will automatically adjust to their preferences, and the walls will become displays of digitized artwork. It is not clear if these ideas were included in Xanadu 2.0. According to Forbes, Gates and Melinda are worth an estimated $124 billion. They announced their separation in a joint statement posted on their personal social networking site on May 3. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2 are co-chairs), said that the organizational structure will not change. Meanwhile, the fate of the Xanadu 2.0 villa is still open.