{"id":92294,"date":"2026-10-29T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92294"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:42:46","slug":"minecraft-creator-notch-is-selling-his-l-a-mansion-for-the-low-asking-price-of-70-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92294","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Creator Notch Is Selling His L.A. Mansion for the &#8216;Low&#8217; Asking Price of $70 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2014\/09\/15\/microsoft-officially-buys-mojang-for-25-billion\">Markus \u201cNotch\u201d Persson sold Minecraft developer Mojang to Microsoft<\/a> back in 2014 for a cool $2.5 billion, then moved to the U.S. and casually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/19\/minecraft-creator-outbids-jay-z-and-beyonce-for-70-million-mansion\">outbid Jay-Z and Beyonce for a Beverly Hills mansion<\/a>. At the time, it cost him $70 million. Now, he&#8217;s selling up.<\/p>\n<p>Despite L.A.\u2019s median home value more than doubling, Notch is looking for a quick sale on the mansion, a 22,300-square-foot estate which features 15 bathrooms, a $200,000 candy room, and its own private nightclub. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-10-27\/minecraft-creator-beverly-hills-mansion-for-sale-70-million\">L.A. Times<\/a>, the market for housing for the super rich has cooled in the past decade, hence the \u201clow\u201d asking price. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"minecraft-ice-caves-screenshots\" data-value=\"minecraft-ice-caves-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>If it sells, it\u2019ll be the most expensive home sale in Beverly Hills this year and the second-priciest in L.A. County. When Notch bought it, the house boasted a 2,500-bottle wine cellar, and an art installation with a chrome machine gun as the centrepiece, as well as eight bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a movie theatre and a swimming pool. <\/p>\n<p>Notch added the nightclub, as well as a recording studio and a DJ booth to host parties for the rich and famous of Beverly Hills. According to Notch, he doesn\u2019t spend much time in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markus \u201cNotch\u201d Persson sold Minecraft developer Mojang to Microsoft back in 2014 for a cool $2.5 billion, then moved to the U.S. and casually outbid Jay-Z and Beyonce for a Beverly Hills mansion. At the time, it cost him $70 million. Now, he&#8217;s selling up. Despite L.A.\u2019s median home value more than doubling, Notch is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":92296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92298,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92294\/revisions\/92298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}