Minecraft billionaire who beat Beyoncé and Jay-Z to a Beverly Hills mansion is selling—just as California votes on a billionaire tax
Source: Fortune ·
Persson’s agent says he rarely spends time in Los Angeles anymore. The listing lands just as Californians decide on a wealth tax that has already pushed Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Travis Kalanick out of the state.
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The Swedish programmer who sold his Lego-like sandbox game to Microsoft for $2.5 billion is now trying to turn a Beverly Hills trophy home back into cash. His timing, however, is raising eyebrows. Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft, has listed his roughly 22,300-square-foot Trousdale Estates compound for $70 million—the same price he paid for it in 2014, The Wall Street Journal first reported. If it fetches its asking price, it would be the priciest home sale in Beverly Hills this year and the second most expensive in Los Angeles County, behind only the $130 million Casa Encantada estate Peter Thiel bought at a foreclosure auction in September, The Real Deal reported, citing the Los Angeles Times. Aaron Kirman and Katia De Los Reyes of Christie’s International Real Estate Southern California hold the listing, alongside Branden and Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates. Kirman told the Journal that Persson simply isn’t spending much time in Los Angeles anymore and…