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Minecraft creator lists Beverly Hills mansion for $70M
The listing agent says the nine-figure-adjacent market is slower than it used to be; the house has eight bedrooms, fifteen bathrooms and a DJ booth.
Watch it as it aired: Hank Ledger and Rosa Ticks on this story, from BBN This Morning at 6:33 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are New York Post's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by New York Post: “Minecraft billionaire is latest California resident to flee state — as he offloads $70M Beverly Hills mansion”, with reporting from New York Post (via Yahoo), First for Money (via Yahoo), Patch and Wall Street Journal (via Yahoo).
- Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 6:33 AM ET on BBN This Morning, by Hank Ledger and Rosa Ticks.
- Topics: California.
- BBN covered this story before: FBI raids Beverly Hills mansion connected to billionaire (October 27).
The real story
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- New York PostMinecraft billionaire is latest California resident to flee state — as he offloads $70M Beverly Hills mansion
- New York Post (via Yahoo)Minecraft creator asks $70 million for Beverly Hills mansion with 15 bathrooms, private nightclub October 28, 2026 · facts used on air
- First for Money (via Yahoo)Minecraft Creator Lists Beverly Hills Mansion for $70M, Same Price He Paid Over a Decade Ago October 28, 2026 · facts used on air
- PatchBillionaire Minecraft Creator's $70 Million Home Sets Record facts used on air
- Wall Street Journal (via Yahoo)Minecraft billionaire is latest California resident to flee state — as he offloads $70M Beverly Hills mansion October 28, 2026 · facts used on air
What BBN said about it

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Minecraft co-creator Markus Persson is selling his Beverly Hills mansion for seventy million dollars, the New York Post reports.

Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterThis is BBN team coverage of a HOUSE, Hank. We have a map, a recap, and a graphic of two pools!

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRosa, can you bring it down?

Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterDown by one percent. The estate is twenty-two thousand three hundred square feet, with eight bedrooms, a wine cellar, an elevator and two pools!

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd a private nightclub with a DJ booth, plus a recording studio. In Trousdale Estates.

Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterA DJ booth! Nobody has confirmed who last stood in it, and I need to know!

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe bought it in twenty fourteen for seventy million dollars, a record then.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Wall Street Journal says he's asking seventy million. Same as 2014. After the nightclub.

Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterSame price, with a nightclub! The listing agent says buyers want something that cannot easily be replicated, and I believe him!

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFifteen bathrooms, and the only thing that didn't go up is the price.
More Shorts
All videos →The story so far
- FBI raids Beverly Hills mansion connected to billionaire · NBC Los Angeles
- Minecraft creator lists Beverly Hills mansion for $70M (this story)
From the archive: everything BBN aired on Thursday, October 29, 2026 · the U.S. archive · all months


Photo: Daniel Torok · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN
Photo: DUNCAN KIRK · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

