Posted on 04/24/2020 4:56:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates have purchased an exquisite beach house outside San Diego-splashing out on $43 million for an oceanfront mansion in the coastal town of Del Mar, CA. The prodigious purchase price makes it one of the largest sales in the area's history.
The luxurious six-bedroom, four-bathroom, 5,800-square-foot home was sold to the Gates family by Madeleine Pickens, a former wife of the billionaire oil baron T. Boone Pickens, according to the Wall Street Journal. The home originally landed on the market for $48 million in January 2019.
The oceanfront property was built by the architect and designer Ken Ronchetti in 1999. According to the listing details, the house is well-known as a city landmark and is considered "one of the most prominent coastal contemporary beach homes on the West Coast."
The elegant residence comes with 120 feet of private ocean frontage.
Wide windows throughout the living spaces open to the back patio, offering a seamless flow between the indoor and outdoor spaces. The large patio also provides awe-inspiring vistas of the Pacific Ocean.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
They earned it. Well he did anyway. The house is equivalent to us buying a 40,000 dollar house.
So glad to hear that the climate crisis is over!
Man, I was wondering who beat out my bid for 42.8 mil. Should a known!
Yes. It is known as communism.
That’s a heck of a “Dacha”.
Who cares?? He is EVIL! I dont care if he buys 1 BILLIOB DOLLAR HOUSE....he’s a HYPOCRITE for BUYING OCEANFRONT!!
Another rich lefty spending many milltion to buy beach front property while we get the globull warming scam. Something doesn’t add up here.
Another rich lefty spending many milltion to buy beach front property while we get the globull warming scam. Something doesn’t add up here.
If he was just a super rich guy who minded his own, it would be fine. It’s the hypocrisy and the other, destructive actions he’s involved in that cause the backlash.
By the time we left California around a decade ago, the property tax on our home was 2% of the purchase price. I believe it has gone up from there. (Maybe the percentage depends on your zip code though) Just imagine what the property tax would be without Prop 13! (And yes, it does still hold the taxes down somewhat)
All that money & not even a bathroom for every bedroom. Quel shock ; )
Wait....I thought the oceans were rising and we only had about 11 more years to go.....what gives, Bill?
I never thought of beach-front living as desirable ... too many lookie-loo people on the beach in front of your house, and the view at night is non-existent. But that's just me. (Couldn't afford it anyway, lol.)
Bill “Sanger” Gates - Facebook and Google news now has wonderful stories about Billy after his brave new world vaccines!
Bill and Melinda — two great guys
Oh, I know. They're just buying them up out of sheer humanitarian concern so that poor people won't get stuck with flooded property.
‘For $43 million, I thought you’d get 1,000 feet of private beach, not just 120 feet.’
The dipsh*t got rob - when he ever gets down there to see it and start walking it off he’ll get the idea! Now he busy off somewhere giving BJ on making sure his vaccine cocktail is the only cocktail for the BIO WMD he, soros, WHO and the CCP THRUST ON US AND TRUMP TO TURN US INTO A SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP COME NOV WITH MAIL-IN VOTE!
If I just have 15 min meeting with him...that’s all it would take to remove all these evil thoughts from his mind...maybe less time than that!!!!! TIC-TOC!
Like Obama, they must not be worried about global warming and oceans rising.
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