One might assume that Mark Zuckerberg’s houses consist primarily of sleek Silicon Valley mansions. That’s not wrong—the Facebook (now known as Meta) founder does own a compound not far from his office—but as his fortune has grown over the years, so has his real estate portfolio, encompassing additional properties in California as well as a much-talked-about Hawaiian compound. The world’s third richest man, according to Forbes, Zuckerberg ranks just behind Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and boasts a net worth of around $214 billion.
In classic Zuckerberg fashion, every house he owns is massive, considerably upgraded, and oftentimes saddled with complaints from the general public. Furthermore, Zuckerberg has been known to buy up neighboring homes to make sure that he and his family have the utmost privacy. Below, we recap all the places the Zuck, his wife, Priscilla Chan, and their two young children now call home.
Tricked-out Palo Alto compound
About a year before he and Chan said “I do” in 2012, Zuckerberg set down roots in Palo Alto with the purchase of a 5,617-square-foot home just a short 10-minute drive from Facebook’s Menlo Park campus. The tech maven reportedly paid $7 million for the five-bedroom, five-bathroom mansion, and then paid a pretty penny to have it outfitted with some nifty technological upgrades, including a “custom-made artificially intelligent assistant” called Jarvis, according to CNBC. (Among its tasks: helping Zuckerberg’s daughter with her Mandarin lessons, identifying visitors at the door, and supplying clean gray T-shirts from a rigged-up “T-shirt cannon.”) Other features of the home include a saltwater pool, a glass-enclosed sunroom, and a huge backyard pavilion.
The following year, the couple began buying up the four homes surrounding their original Palo Alto house. In all, they reportedly spent an estimated $43 million on those properties. The Wall Street Journal reported that the couple initially leased the homes back to their former owners, with plans to eventually demolish all four to build something new in 2016. The city voted against Zuckerberg’s plans, however, so he had to settle for just renovating two of the four homes in order to create a compound situated on a lot measuring 1.83 acres.
San Francisco pied-à-terre
In late 2012, the Facebook founder spent $10 million on a pied-à-terre town house in the Dolores Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, reportedly shelling out an additional $1.8 million to renovate the brick and stucco home. SF Gate reported that renovations included the addition of a first-floor office, a media room, a laundry room, a wine room, and a wet bar. Reportedly, there was also a $65,000 bathroom and kitchen remodel and the addition of a greenhouse on the premises. Not much else is known about the property, except that it presently measures 7,368 square feet. Zuckerberg and Chan sold the place for $31 million in an off-market deal, according to the New York Post, in July of 2022.
Kauai, Hawaii, estate
Zuckerberg began what has now been a years-long love affair with Hawaii in 2014, when he snapped up 707 acres on the island of Kauai for about $116 million. His first purchase, according to local newspaper Garden Island, included most of Pila’a Beach and the Kahu’aina Plantation, and posed an issue for locals who complained about the walls the tech magnate put up around his property, which ultimately blocked beach access. According to the paper, Zuckerberg’s first Hawaii purchase included plans for a 6,100-square-foot main house with a 16-car garage and a structure that would serve as security headquarters for his $23 million security team.
