Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s real estate portfolio seems to have grown exponentially over the years. The founder of Facebook, now known as Meta, currently owns as many as 10 homes situated all throughout California—including San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Lake Tahoe. He also has several holdings on Kauai, Hawaii.

Each property is far more elaborate than even your standard celebrity fare. In classic Zuckerberg fashion, every house is massive, considerably upgraded, and oftentimes saddled with complaints from the general public.

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Also, Zuckerberg has been known to buy up neighbouring homes to make sure that he and his family have the utmost privacy.

Let’s take a look at all the places the Zuck, his wife Priscilla Chan, and their two young children now call home.

2011

About a year before he and Chan tied the knot, 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.

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It is reportedly said that the tech maven paid about $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.

Other features of the home include a saltwater pool, a glass-enclosed sunroom, and a huge backyard pavilion.

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2012

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.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the couple 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.

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In late 2012, Mark Zuckerberg spent $10 million on a pied-à-terre town house in the Dolores Heights neighbourhood of San Francisco, reportedly shelling out an additional $1.8 million to renovate the brick and stucco home.

2014

Zuckerberg began what has 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. According to local newspaper Garden Island, his first purchase 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.

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It is also said that 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.

2017

Three years later, the couple expanded their Hawaiian holdings with the purchase of 89 more acres for $45 million. They once again found themselves in the spotlight after filing lawsuits in order to buy pockets of land on their estate known as the kuleana parcels.

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These parcels were given to native Hawaiian tenant farmers in 1850 and were considered sacred to the generations who had owned them since. Zuckerberg and Chan backed off after public outcry, but still ended up purchasing 12 of these parcels.

2018

Zuckerberg and Chan had quietly purchased two adjoining Lake Tahoe homes for $59 million—the Brushwood Estate and the Carousel Estate—which they combined into a massive compound on the lake’s west shore.

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Photos of the compound are scant, but what is known is that the Carousel Estate features a seven-bedroom main house and sits on three and a half acres, with a marina-style pier ideal for docking a large yacht.

2021

In year two of the pandemic, Zuckerberg and Chan decided to deepen their holdings in Hawaii, spending $53 million for 600 more acres on Kauai. The lot was previously owned by the Waioli Corporation, a local organisation that works in conservation efforts, and the couple has been outspoken about their hopes to prioritise preservation efforts with their ever-expansive estate.

In a statement, Zuckerberg said, “We have been working closely with a number of community partners to promote conservation, produce sustainable agriculture, and protect native wildlife at our ranch and in the surrounding areas, and look forward to extending that effort to Lepeuli in the months ahead.”