Have you ever wondered which famous billionaire could buy your entire city? The guesswork is over, thanks to Redfin.com. The popular real estate website has crunched the numbers for us and determined which mogul on the Forbes 400 Wealthiest list could buy every dwelling in our hometown.
Apparently, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York are too big for anyone’s britches. But for just about every other city, there’s a billionaire who could take it. Michael Bloomberg, for instance, could take all of Anaheim under his wing at a price tag of $31.4 billion. (Bloomberg is worth about $31.8 billion.) Jeff Bezos could similarly buy all the homes in the City of Napa with change to spare. The Amazon.com founder and CEO would need to cough up about $29.5 billion for all of Napa’s homes; he’s already worth about $30.5 billion.
According to Redfin, the Kotch brothers could buy up all of Atlanta, Georgia. Bill Gates was matched up with Boston, Massachusetts; Mark Zuckerberg with Saint Paul, MN; and Donald Trump with Commerce City, Colorado. Corporate executive and former gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman could similarly take Winder, Georgia’s 19,818 homes using all of her net worth ($2 billion).
Find out who could buy your city here.