Posted on 04/03/2025 12:28:13 AM PDT by ransomnote
Mark Zuckerberg is the latest billionaire to shell out tens of millions of dollars for a pricey outpost in Donald Trump’s gilded capital.
For a month, neighbors in Washington’s upscale Woodland Normanstone neighborhood have speculated about the unidentified buyer who paid $23 million in cash for a 15,000-square-foot mansion. The sale was the third-most expensive in city history and was shrouded in secrecy, with real estate agents muzzled by non-disclosure agreements. Soon after the deal went through in early March, images of the house became pixelated on Google Maps.
But on Monday, the same day flight-tracking web sites revealed that the Meta CEO’s private jet had landed at Dulles Airport, observers on the quiet block not far from the Naval Observatory noticed an uptick in action at the house, which had been largely dark for months.
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But the mogul-ization of D.C.’s priciest neighborhoods really picked up speed over the past year. The former Google CEO Eric Schmidt last year paid $15 million for a Georgetown residence once occupied by Jacqueline Kennedy. David Sacks, a PayPal co-founder now serving as an AI and crypto czar in the White House, spent $10.3 million on a Northwest D.C. penthouse. And the former eBay executive Jeff Skoll last fall paid $17 million for a pair of suburban Virginia properties that he reportedly aims to turn into a compound.
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The fire hydrant and sewer manhole platform really set off the front landscape of this fabulously lavish domicile with some ‘DC Street Cred’.
Every mega millions mansion should emulate this fashion statement!
Those will be moved.
John Kerry got his moved in Boston
I know. Just poking fun.
Not much curb appeal even if moved!
It looks like something Hugh Newell Jacobson might have designed.
“It looks like something Hugh Newell Jacobson might have designed.”
Thank you. I wouldn’t have known!
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