Here’s a look at Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison’s incredible real estate portfolio
- Property purchases go back decades and stretch far and wide, from Silicon Valley to Japan and Hawaii
Dubbed the “nation’s most avid trophy-home buyer” by The Wall Street Journal, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is no stranger to the real estate market.
Ellison is the seventh-richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than US$55 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. When asked in 2012 why he would buy more homes than he could possibly live in, Ellison referenced his love of art.
“I’m going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes,” Ellison told CNBC in 2012. “I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th-century European art, and one for French impressionism.”
Although his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been his largest single investment, he has made a number of blockbuster purchases over the past two decades in Silicon Valley, Lake Tahoe and Japan.
Here are all the houses and properties belonging to the co-founder of Oracle:
Ellison bought this US$3.9 million home in San Francisco’s swanky Pacific Heights neighbourhood in 1988.
Ellison owns a 10,000-square-foot mansion, designed by architect William Wurster, with four levels and five bedrooms. The Pacific Heights neighbourhood, known as “Billionaire’s Row”, is also home to fellow tech moguls such as Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Apple designer Jony Ive and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman.
News outlets reported that Ellison had planned to buy the home next door for US$40 million so he could cut down his neighbour’s trees that were blocking the view from his home. However, the sale did not happen.
His 23-acre estate in Woodside, California, is modelled on a 16th-century Japanese imperial palace.
