MW Billionaire Google founder Sergey Brin reportedly buys $51 million Miami mansion from LVMH CEO
By Charlie Lankston
From Malibu to Florida, a property spending spree?
Sergey Brin attends the Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif., April 5, 2025.
Billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin has reportedly snapped up a new $51 million Miami megamansion, just months after he was linked to the purchase of two homes worth a total of $92 million.
Tech mogul Brin, 52, is understood to have bought the palatial abode, via an LLC registered in Nevada, from the CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton $(LVMHF)$ , Michael Burke and his wife, Brigitte Burke, as first reported by Business Insider.
The property is located on the exclusive Allison Island, a 35-acre stretch of land that sits in the Biscayne Bay, between La Gorce and Miami Beach. The 24-hour guard-gated island is home to fewer than 50 single-family homes-which occupy about three quarters of the isle, while the rest is home to a few condo buildings and hotels.
The island is connected to La Gorce on one side and Miami Beach on the other by bridges-and anyone who enters the community will be required to register with the security guards.
Brin's alleged new dwelling sits at the end of the island that is furthest away from these bridges, offering spectacular views of La Gorce and Normandy Isle.
It was custom built for the Burkes in 2019, five years after they purchased the 1-acre plot of land on which the home now sits for $11.7 million.
The spectacular property spreads across nearly 10,000 square feet of living space, and offers seven bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms, a sparkling waterfront pool, and a private dock. It features a very modernist design, with two separate wings of the home connected by a central walkthrough area.
Glass walls ensure that the dwelling is filled with natural light, while also maximizing the incredible views of the Biscayne Bay, and a covered patio at the back of the property serves as the perfect place to relax away from the glare of the Miami sunshine.
The parcel is one of the largest on the island, almost double the size of the majority of plots found in the neighborhood, with aerial images showing that it comes complete with a huge piece of land directly adjacent to the primary residence, which may well have potential for expansion.
The home appears to have been purchased in an off-market deal, with the MLS showing no record of the property being listed-however, sources told The Real Deal that Coldwell Banker's Jills Zeder Group represented the buyer and seller in the deal.
Records show that the mansion was purchased via an LLC registered in Reno, which lists attorney Michael Rafferty as one of its officers-a man who has been tied to a number of Brin's previous property purchases.
The address listed for the LLC is the same as the one registered for another limited liability company tied to the purchase of a $42 million Lake Tahoe home in December. Attorney Christine Wade is listed as the manager of that entity, as well as an LLC that was used for the January purchase of a stunning $50 million coastal property in Malibu, Calif.
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It has been widely reported that Brin was the buyer of both properties.
Wade was also responsible for transferring five other limited liability companies connected to Brin out of California, according to Bloomberg-suggesting that the Google $(GOOGL)$ founder has joined the many billionaires fleeing the Golden State in anticipation of a proposed billionaire tax.
Brin is currently worth $243 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which ranks him as the third wealthiest man in the world, behind Tesla $(TSLA)$ founder Elon Musk and his Google co-founder, Larry Page.
Should the billionaire tax ballot be passed, anyone with a net worth of $1 billion or more whose primary residence was located in California on Jan. 1, 2026, will be subject to a one-time wealth tax of 5%, which would cost Brin about $12.2 billion, based on his current estimated fortune.
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Although the ballot initiative has yet to pass, the threat of such a tax prompted many of the state's ultrarich to rush to establish alternate residency before the onset of the new year.
Many of those who have yanked their business dealings from California-including Peter Thiel and David Sacks-still own homes in the state but have transferred their financial holdings to other locales in a bid to protect their money.
Brin's Google co-founder, Page, was also among the many business moguls who fled California, snapping up two mansions in the tony Florida enclave of Coconut Grove at the end of 2025, to the tune of $173 million.
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The first property, which boasts 13 bedrooms and 15.5 bathrooms, was initially listed for $135 million in June 2024 but sold for the much lower price of $101.5 million on Dec. 29.
Days later, Page is said to have closed on the purchase of another nearby dwelling, this time paying $71.9 million in an off-market deal, nearly double the price that the sellers had purchased the home for less than five years ago.
The first of the two homes had previously been owned by late restaurateur Jonathan Lewis, while the other was sold by heiress Sloan Lindemann Barnett, daughter of fossil fuel mogul George Lindemann, and her husband, Roger Barnett.
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Meanwhile, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg reportedly snapped up his own Florida dwelling earlier this month, closing on a staggering $170 million property on Miami's famed Billionaire Bunker, setting a record for the priciest residential real estate purchase in Miami-Dade in the process.
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As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire mogul is now the proud new owner of a nine-bedroom, 11.5-bathroom property that was originally put on the market for the even higher price of $200 million in November 2025.
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When it was originally listed at the end of last year, the home was described as an "architectural masterpiece" that "defines the pinnacle of luxury waterfront living."
The home was commissioned by plastic surgeon Aaron Rollins and his real estate agent wife, Marine Rollins, who purchased the 1.84-acre waterfront lot on Miami's famed Indian Creek Island for $30 million in 2020, according to records.
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They then teamed up with Canadian architect and designer Ferris Rafauli, who conceived everything from the structural layout to the interiors and the landscaping, according to information shared with Realtor.com.
"Ferris designed all the architecture, all the interior design, and all the landscaping. He led the complete creative vision, designing the estate in its entirety from initial concept through to final execution," an insider revealed.
This story originally ran on Realtor.com.
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