Indian Creek Village · Florida · Est. 1939

The Island Where
Billionaires Hide

Three hundred guarded acres in Biscayne Bay. Forty-one estates. One road. Hover over the map for a closer look at every property — who owns it, what it cost, and when the deed changed hands.

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$0Record Sale · March 2026
$0Bezos Island Footprint
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0Residents
0Officers, Own Police Force
0Guarded Acres
The Enclave

One bridge in. One bridge out. Zero neighbors who need a last name.

Indian Creek is a man-made 300-acre island in Biscayne Bay, minutes from Miami Beach and a world away from it. A single guarded causeway from Surfside is the only way in — and only residents, staff, and invited guests make it past the gate. Inside, a private 18-hole golf course covers the island's interior while the mansions ring the water, each with a dock facing the bay.

The village has never had a restaurant, a store, or a hotel. It doesn't need one. What it has is its own police department patrolling by boat, jeep, and Jet Ski around the clock — roughly one officer for every six residents. A 2014 survey pegged the residents' combined net worth at more than $37 billion; the current figure is comfortably north of that.

300 acresMan-made island in Biscayne Bay, north of Miami Beach
41 estatesEvery home fronts the water on Indian Creek Island Road
84 residentsLatest census tally of the village
13 officersPrivate police force — land, boat & Jet Ski patrols
18 holesIndian Creek Country Club owns the island's interior
$170MZuckerberg's March 2026 buy — a Miami-Dade record
The Map

Hover. Zoom. Covet.

Live satellite imagery of the island. Glide over a gold pin to reveal the owner, the purchase date, and the price. Click any pin to fly down to street level for a close look at the estate itself. Gold crowns mark the island's record-breakers.

25.8791° N · 80.1385° W

Indian Creek Village

Hover a pin → reveal · Click → fly to estate
Estate

Owner
Purchased
Price

The Roster

Forty-one homes. A Who's Who in the water.

The pinned estates above carry public-record addresses. Beyond them, a deeper bench of billionaires has called the island home — some for decades.

Norman Braman
Car-dealership tycoon; owned the island's first home — an 8-bedroom estate bought in 1991 for $3.9M, now worth a fortune.
Carl Icahn
Activist investor; bought his 14,000 sq ft house out of foreclosure in 1997 for $7.5M — he now owns three homes on the island.
Eddie Lampert
Sears chairman & hedge funder; paid $38.4M in March 2012 for a 17,000 sq ft Italian-style mansion on 2.7 acres.
Jeffrey Soffer & Elle Macpherson
Turnberry Associates CEO and the supermodel — a 29,270 sq ft, nine-bedroom estate.
Julio Iglesias
The crooner's island story spans decades — he paid $15.2M for a second home in 2012 and later sold his lot to the Kushners for $32.2M.
Don Shula
The legendary Dolphins coach lived on the island 20+ years in a white house with a private dock.
Adriana Lima
The supermodel and Marko Jarić bought a 1950s home in 2009 for $9M — modest by island standards, glorious by any other.
Irwin Tauber
Taubco CEO; a 24,716 sq ft, 8-bedroom estate with tennis court, bought in 2003 for $7M.
Rick Pitino
The legendary coach picked up his place near the bridge for a reported $5.4M in 1999.
Geert-Jan Bakker
Dutch businessman who bought his home in 2010 for $9.3M — from Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
Jaime Gilinski
Colombian banking billionaire, named among the island's Forbes top-500 set in 2014.
The Anonymous Ones
A Russian buyer paid a then-record $47M in 2012; steel magnate Leroy Schecter sold for $28M in 2014; Charles Johnson's mansion went for $30M in 2015. On this island, discretion is the point.
The Film

See it from the water.

Drone tours over the bay, over the walls, over the yachts. Press play.

Inside the Billionaire BunkerDrone tour of the island
Why So Many Billionaires Live HereThe island's story, from above
Who Lives on Billionaires Bunker Island?Aerial pass of the estates
Inside Brady's $150M BuildThe island's newest palace
The Ledger

How the price of secrecy inflated.

1991$3.9M — Norman Braman's island pioneer buy

The first great estate goes for under four million.

1997$7.5M — Icahn out of foreclosure

14,000 square feet, acquired at auction prices.

2012$47M — Miami's record sale

An unnamed Russian buyer resets the market. Later that year Lampert pays $38.4M next door to the club.

2020$17M — Brady & Bündchen land

A two-acre lot with a teardown on it; today's rebuild is valued near $150M.

2021$32.2M + $24M — The Kushners go double

Julio Iglesias's vacant lot, then the six-bedroom mansion at 36. A $15M mortgage from Bank of America covered part of it.

2023$68M + $79M — Bezos hits add-to-cart

Two adjoining estates in five months, assembling 4.6 contiguous waterfront acres.

2024~$90M — Bezos, off-market, again

A 12,000 sq ft six-bedroom bought quietly in April; plans floated to raze the others for one mega-mansion. Total island spend: $237M.

March 2026$170M — Zuckerberg & Chan, the record

7 Indian Creek Island Road. The most expensive home ever sold in Miami-Dade, and the priciest in America that month. The lot alone cost its prior owner $30M in 2020.