Minecraft creator Notch is selling Beverly Hills mansion for $70M

GamingMinecraftbyCande MaldonadoPublished: Oct 29, 2026, 18:47Add as a preferred source on GoogleFollow on Google News

Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson put his Beverly Hills megamansion up for sale, and the price tag raised a few eyebrows.

In December 2014, fresh off selling Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, Persson outbid Beyoncé and Jay-Z for the home and paid $70 million, a Beverly Hills record.

Twelve years later, the game he sold keeps growing, with Mojang unveiling its first new dimension in over a decade last month. His asking price for the mansion, however, stayed frozen in time.

Notch lists Beverly Hills mansion for the exact $70M he paid

Persson listed the 22,300-square-foot estate in Trousdale Estates, a neighborhood known as Beverly Hills’ Billionaires’ Row, for $70 million, the same sum he handed over in 2014. The mansion itself ranks among the priciest homes listed in Los Angeles County this year.

The figure stood out because the median Los Angeles home more than doubled in value over that decade, although the Los Angeles Times noted that the market for ultra-high-end homes has cooled.

Whoever snaps it up will inherit quite the place to live in. The house packs eight bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a 2,500-bottle wine cellar and the candy room that made headlines in 2014, plus a recording studio and a private nightclub with a DJ booth that Persson added himself. Its walls of glass also look out over downtown Los Angeles and its environs, all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

“They’re looking for something that sets them apart and cannot easily be replicated,” listing agent Aaron Kirman said of buyers at this level.

The listing also dropped days before Californians vote on a proposed one-time 5% tax on billionaires who lived in the state on January 1, 2026, and some X accounts quickly framed the move as Persson fleeing.

Kirman, however, told The Wall Street Journal that Persson simply spends little time in Los Angeles and is committed to selling.