Billionaires move too. And while the housing market isn’t great for sellers at any level, it can sometimes be especially difficult for expensive homes to sell.
Buyers at high price points don’t always love properties customized for the previous owner, and the additional cost of maintenance and upkeep can deter even the deepest pockets. Some people struggling to rid themselves of luxurious properties end up slashing their asking prices. Others forego selling them altogether, choosing to either auction them off or rent them out instead.
With billionaires being the subject of higher taxes in certain states, there’s been a lot of movement at the top of the housing market.
Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page both purchased homes in Miami after moving business out of California due to the state’s proposed Billionaire tax.
Mark Zuckerberg, who owns properties all over the country, also dropped anchor in South Florida recently.
Places like South Florida and Nevada have seen an influx of billionaires recently, but on the backend, they must be leaving some properties behind. The question is: Who’s going to buy them?
Here’s a roundup of billionaire-owned properties from Boston to California on the market as of April 24. They are presented in alphabetical order by last name.
Maria Noyen and Dan Latu contributed to previous versions of this story.
A foreign billionaire is trying to offload a few properties in a unique way.
A billionaire from Kuwait is attempting to offload several of his many American properties in one fell swoop at auction.
Bassam Alghanim, who inherited a stake in his father’s company, Alghanim Industries, has nine Bel-Air parcels with seven houses he’s trying to sell.
One home on the property was listed in October 2025 at $48.9 million, and the entire collection starts at $105 million.
The home that was listed is a 1960s Mediterranean-style, 11,000-square-foot mansion with botanical gardens and a guest house.
The auction, which starts in May, will first auction off each home individually, then the collection as a whole. Whichever offer nets Alghanim the most — whether it be the sum of each individual sale or an offer that buys all at once — will be chosen.
Alghanim isn’t involved with his father’s business, which is chaired by his brother, Kutayba Alghanim, but he still has a net worth of $1.4 billion as of March 2018, according to Forbes.
Late tech mogul Darwin Deason listed his Versailles-inspired estate in California.
The late tech billionaire Darwin Deason first put his oceanfront estate in La Jolla, California, nicknamed the Sand Castle, on the market for an impressive $108 million in 2024 before he died in September 2025.
Deason, who sold his IT and business process outsourcing company Affiliated Computer Services to Xerox for $6.4 billion in 2009, initially spent about $26 million on the house and an adjacent parcel of land, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Over about six years, Deason poured an additional $60 million into transforming the property into a breathtaking 13,000-square-foot mansion, drawing inspiration from Versailles and the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, a five-star retreat for celebrities in the South of France.
The estate includes a seven-bedroom main house and a three-bedroom guest house, with 14 full bathrooms and three half-bathrooms. It also features a pool, two cabanas, a fitness center, and an elevated, private beach with sand Deason imported from the Augusta, Georgia, golf course where the famed Masters tournament is played.
The property took a price cut in February and is now listed at $92.5 million.
If the property sells anywhere near its listing price, it will more than double the San Diego County record of $44.1 million set by billionaire Egon Durban in 2023.
Deason was worth $1.3 billion before he died, according to Forbes.
Michael Dell is trying to offload a luxury penthouse in Boston.
Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell is no stranger to eye-popping real estate.
In 2015, he was the buyer of what was then the most expensive home ever sold in New York City, a $100 million penthouse overlooking Central Park on West 57th Street, also known as Billionaires’ Row. He raised his kids in a sprawling 33,000-square-foot Austin compound dubbed “The Castle” that featured both indoor and outdoor pools.
As of April, Dell’s net worth was $178.1 billion, according to Forbes.
Now, Dell is looking to unload a Boston property he bought in 2020.
He was selling two penthouses, but one of them, which he originally listed for $34 million and eventually reduced to $29 million, sold in August for an undisclosed amount, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The property that’s still on the market is a $9.45 million penthouse on the 54th floor of Boston’s Millennium Tower, located steps from the iconic Boston Commons park. The property features floor-to-ceiling windows with panoramic views of the city and the Charles River.
Hyatt Hotels heir Tony Pritzker is selling his enormous Los Angeles home after a bitter divorce.
Tony Pritzker, chairman and CEO of Pritzker Private Capital, built one of the country’s largest and most luxurious homes.
Pritzker and his former wife Jeanne spent six years constructing a 50,000-square-foot megamansion in the hills of Beverly Crest, an upscale neighborhood in Los Angeles’ Westside.
After their contentious divorce earlier this year, the home landed on the market in October for a staggering $195 million.
The estate has 16 bedrooms and 27 bathrooms over six acres. Amenities include a tennis court, a basketball court, a cliffside pool, a detached guest house, a bowling alley, and a private movie theater. The house’s perch also offers stunning 180-degree views of the Los Angeles skyline.
Since first hitting the market, the home has taken a significant price cut and was most recently listed for $135 million.
According to Forbes, Pritzker has a net worth of $4.4 billion as of April.
Two California billionaires are trying to break a record with a Colorado compound sale.
California billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick have put what is now the most expensive home listing on the market: a $300 million compound in Aspen, Colorado.
The 74.1-acre estate was built in 1994 and features an 18,466-square-foot main house. The sale would also come with plans for a 19,750-square-foot estate that could be built alongside the main home, according to Realtor.com.
The property currently has 18 bedrooms, 20 full bathrooms, and four half-bathrooms, according to Forbes. The home was designed by Peter Dominick, who designed Disneyland’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa.
If sold at the $300 million price tag, the home would be the most expensive home sold in the US.
The Resnicks founded the Wonderful Company — a holding company that owns brands like POM Wonderful and FIJI Water — and have a company net worth of $10.8 billion, according to Forbes.
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