Mark Zuckerberg buys $170M home on ‘billionaire bunker’ island in Miami

(NewsNation) – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have purchased their new home on Miami’s “billionaire bunker island” for $170 million.

Their recent purchase on Indian Creek Island sets a record for Miami-Dade County, and is one of the U.S.’ most expensive home purchases to date, according to The Wall Street Journal. Billionaire Ken Griffin holds the record for his nearly $238 million purchase of a New York apartment in 2019.

It will be some time before they move in, however, as construction is still ongoing at the home. Some of the nine-bedroom, 11 1/2-bathroom home’s newest features are set to include a gym, hair salon and massage room, along with a 1,500-gallon aquarium and a library with a secret passageway.

Details of an actual bunker on Zuckerberg’s new property are unclear. But in recent years, ultra-wealthy buyers have been purchasing homes with bunkers or bomb shelters on-site, NewsNation previously reported. A bunker manufacturer, Atlas Survival Shelters, makes and installs bunkers on the properties of people who request them, totaling an average cost of $25,000

“The world’s elites are getting bunkers, and most of the billionaires, if they don’t have a bunker, they are probably getting one right now,” Rob Hubbard of Atlas Survival Shelters told NewsNation.

“It’s not that they are worried about an immediate scare or something imminent, they just know there are people out there who have feelings different than you and I might have about the future, and they want to be prepared for that,” Hubbard continued.

When Zuckerberg purchased a home in Hawaii in early 2025, he denied reports of having a doomsday bunker on the property, instead describing it as “more of a basement.”

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