Bill Gates is quietly trimming his footprint around his famed $132 million Xanadu 2.0 compound outside Seattle.
The Microsoft cofounder put up for sale a $4.8 million property “nestled into one of Medina’s most coveted hillsides,” according to the listing—a four-bed, three-bath home that he bought for $1 million in 1995, property records reviewed by Fortune show.
That’s a retreat from what Gates had said just about a year ago: that he wasn’t looking to downsize.
“My house in Seattle, I admit, is gigantic. My sisters have downsized. I can’t. I like the houses I have,” he told the Times in 2025. “My kids like to come back—that is a luxury. I don’t cook, I don’t make my own bed, but I don’t mind if no one has made it—I wouldn’t notice.”
The house up for sale sits next to his primary 66,000-square-foot lakefront Xanadu 2.0 mansion, which was last appraised in 2025 for $132 million, property records show. The smaller adjacent property Gates just listed is a 2,800-square-foot home purchased through an LLC in Gates’ name shortly after his 1994 marriage to Melinda French Gates in 1994.
