Jeff Bezos buys up neighbor’s seven-bedroom mansion in Florida’s ‘Billionaire Bunker’ for $79 million – months after it hit the market for $85M

Jeff Bezos has snapped up a neighbor’s $79 million mansion in Florida’s ‘Billionaires’ Bunker’, months after it went on the market for $85 million.

The Amazon founder bought the seven-bedroom property in the exclusive Indian Creek Village near Miami, which counts Ivanka Trump and Tom Brady among its residents.

The 11-bathroom home sits on 19,064 square feet and boasts sweeping views across Biscayne Bay.

The property was built in 2000 and was previously owned by steel magnate Leroy Schecter, who last sold it in 2014 for $28 million.

Bezos has expanded his property portfolio since his engagement to Lauren Sanchez earlier this year.

The loved-up couple were recently spotted arriving by helicopter for New York Fashion Week, where Bezos posed for photos with Kim Kardashian.

His latest purchase comes just months after he spent $68 million on a neighboring property in the same island community.

The three-bedroom house was built in 1965 and sits on two acres of land.

It was previously owned by a Panamanian-linked company called MTM Star International, which acquired it for $1.4 million in 1982.

The property features a similarly coveted waterfront location and access to the island’s private golf course.

The enclave has become a hotspot for the rich and powerful, who are drawn to its plush homes and heightened security.

The island is only accessible by a single, guarded bridge and is protected by a private police force that patrols the community around the clock on foot, sky and land.

Residents enjoy access to an exclusive country club and a private 18-hole golf course, while South Beach in Miami is just eight miles away.

With a median home price of $29.5 million and about 40 residents, Indian Creek has been described as ‘the most exclusive community in the world’.

The area is known as the ‘billionaires’ bunker’ and has previously attracted the likes of Jay-Z and Beyoncé, as well as current resident investors Carl Icahn and Jared Kushner.

Football star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bündchen were also building an ‘eco-mansion’ in the community before their split.

A source close to the third richest man in the world also told about it Bloomberg that his purchases in the area may not be over yet.

Bezos’ latest acquisitions add to an impressive portfolio worth almost $600 million spread across New York, Washington DC, Beverly Hills and West Texas among others.

Last year, Bezos, whose fortune is estimated at $160 billion, added to his collection a private estate in Hawaii that stretches over 14 hectares and is surrounded by dormant lava fields.

The three-building estate, located on scenic La Perouse Bay on Valley Isle in Maui, Hawaii, cost the former Amazon $78 million.

A year ago he added a plush Manhattan apartment to the string of properties he already owned on New York City’s high-end Fifth Avenue.

The billionaire businessman bought five properties over three years to form a de facto mega-mansion.

While in 2016, Bezos dropped $23 million on a former textile museum in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC.

He also snapped up a $5 million property across the street, which many speculated was for privacy reasons since it had a direct line of sight to the former museum property.

In addition to his houses, Bezos also owns the most expensive superyacht in the world.

The $500 million choir is where he popped the question to fiancée Sanchez, 53.

At 417 feet long and 230 meters long, Koru is one of the largest sailing yachts in the world and boasts its own helipad.