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How much did he buy it for? I'd think a couple billion, at least.

According to the article here, the asking price was $500-$600 Million. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/06/20/...

Another article says that the asking price had been previously reported as between 0.5 and 0.6 billion.

Let's keep this in perspective. It may have a nice view, but it's only ninety thousand acres. That wouldn't even put him in the top hundred landholders in the US.

Fun fact: Nicole Kidman's family owns twenty-two million acres of land.

Interesting!

Check out http://www.landreport.com/americas-100-largest-landowners/ for the U.S. Largest is John Malone: 2.2M acres in Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas.

Interestingly, this report shows that 90,000 acres would put him in the running for top 100 landowners in the US.

http://208.106.193.21/documents/property_pdfs/Top100Landowne...

The list Jeff Bezos as #27 with 290,000 acres. Huh.

The list is by acreage and not value, though. Which makes Bezos' position on the list pretty funny, since the neighborhood Amazon is based in--South Lake Union--is owned by Paul Allen.

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