I am Mayuri and I came across George Soros the way most people do through arguments, and not through architecture. Someone was debating his influence at a dinner table and I got curious about something more specific. Where does a man like that actually sleep at night? The answer turned out to be one of the more quietly remarkable real estate stories in the country.
Where Does George Soros Live?
The Katonah Compound
1993 is when he first showed up in Katonah. Paid $10.5 million for 35 acres inside the town of Bedford and that was just the beginning. The buying kept going for years after that.
By now the compound stretches across more than 115 acres assembled from at least 11 neighbouring properties purchased over the years. The property tax on 178 Cantitoe Street alone runs approximately $350,563 annually as of 2025. Read that tax number again. $350,563. Per year, on one address.
Platt drew it up in the 1800s and it has been standing on that land ever since. Nineteen rooms across 10,000 square feet.
One detail I kept coming back to is that the doorways are eight feet tall because Crichton was that tall and had them built that way. Soros walks through them now.
Soros paid him somewhere between $19 and $21.5 million for it in 2003. Crichton had bought it seven years earlier for $10 million and spent most of those years fixing what a century of bad additions had done to the original structure, wrong windows, rooms that made no sense, an exterior that looked like three different buildings arguing with each other.
The Southampton Property
Old Town Road in Southampton is where the summer goes. The estate there is large enough that the square footage reads like a misprint, 30,322 of them, spread across twelve bedrooms and eleven bathrooms.
Walking trails that apparently feel nothing like the Hamptons and everything like the English countryside, which is either a design choice or a coincidence and either way it works. Walk inside and there is a wine cellar somewhere to the left, a private library, fireplaces big enough that you notice them before anything else, antique rugs that have clearly been there a while. Nobody styled this room for a photo shoot. From the outside it reads as deliberately hidden. That is not an accident.
Sun Valley and the Urban Addresses
The same year he was buying in Westchester, he also picked up something in Sun Valley. Log construction, nine thousand square feet, listed at $2.75 million. He paid half a million less than that. Before Soros it was a bed-and-breakfast. Before that, John Kerry apparently had it. The house has eleven bedrooms and two fireplaces built from river rock and a kitchen that is sized for a proper restaurant, not a family.
The Kensington place he bought the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Four floors, handsome brass fittings throughout, nothing about it trying to announce itself. Out front there is a blue plaque for a Victorian historian who once lived there and it is still there now.
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