Twelve years after dropping $70 million on one of Beverly Hills’ most talked-about mansions, Minecraft creator Markus Persson is putting it back on the market — for exactly the same price.
The Swedish billionaire has listed 1181 N. Hillcrest Road in Trousdale Estates for $70 million, bringing a home that once set a Beverly Hills sales record back to the market with eight bedrooms, 15 bathrooms and approximately 22,300 square feet of living space.
And while the house was already extravagant when Persson bought it, he has spent the years since adding some serious entertainment infrastructure of his own — including a multimillion-dollar professional recording studio and a fully equipped private nightclub.
Aaron Kirman and Katia De Los Reyes of Международная недвижимость Christie's Southern California share the listing with Branden Williams and Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates.
Persson paid a record $70M for the house in 2014
The home became part of Los Angeles real estate lore almost immediately after Persson bought it.
He paid $70 million for the newly built spec mansion in December 2014, at the time the highest recorded residential sale in Beverly Hills.
That was only a few months after Persson sold Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.
The house had originally been asking $85 million.
Now, more than a decade later, Persson is seeking precisely what he paid for it.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z reportedly toured it several times
Persson wasn’t the only billionaire circling the property back in 2014.
Jay-Z and Beyoncé reportedly toured the house multiple times before Persson ultimately bought it.
The celebrity couple eventually went in another direction, later buying their own Bel-Air megamansion.
The bidding history only added to the mythology around 1181 N. Hillcrest Road, which arrived during a period when increasingly elaborate speculative mansions were beginning to reshape the upper end of Los Angeles real estate.
More than 22,000 square feet crowns Hillcrest Road
The contemporary residence sits near the top of Hillcrest Road on just under an acre.
Current listing records put the interior at approximately 22,300 square feet, spread across two expansive levels connected by a private elevator.
There are eight bedrooms and 15 bathrooms, along with vast entertaining spaces, staff accommodations and dedicated rooms for virtually every recreational whim.
Developer Bruce Makowsky originally built the house in 2014.
Views stretch from Downtown LA toward the Pacific
The elevated Trousdale Estates setting gives the house one of its defining features.
Panoramic views stretch across Los Angeles, taking in Downtown, city lights, surrounding hills and the Pacific Ocean. Current listing data also notes Catalina views from the property.
Walls of glass keep that panorama visible throughout the main entertaining areas.
The effect becomes particularly dramatic after dark, when much of the Los Angeles basin turns into a field of lights below the property.
A 54-foot curved glass wall opens the house to the pool
One of the residence’s most memorable architectural features dates back to its original construction.
A roughly 54-foot curved glass wall was designed to retract automatically, opening the main living area directly toward the infinity pool and panoramic city views.
It effectively turns the central living space into an indoor-outdoor pavilion when fully opened.
That scale also helps explain why the house became such a sensation when it first came to market.
The primary suite gets a private pool of its own
The main swimming pool isn’t the only one on the property.
The primary suite has its own private pool overlooking the Los Angeles basin, allowing the owners to take in the city views without heading to the larger entertaining areas.
City-light views are visible directly from the bed as well.
It gives the suite an unusually private resort-like component inside a house already built heavily around entertainment.
The kitchen and living spaces take full advantage of the panorama
The main entertaining level keeps the views front and center.
An open chef’s kitchen connects with expansive living areas, while glass walls wrap much of the space and create a nearly uninterrupted outlook over Los Angeles.
Rather than breaking the floor plan into heavily compartmentalized rooms, the architecture favors large volumes and long sightlines toward the skyline.
The scale is particularly suited to the kind of entertaining for which the house has become known.
Persson added a full private nightclub downstairs
The lower level takes a very different turn.
Persson transformed part of it into a fully realized private nightclub, complete with a professional DJ booth, dance floor, bar, custom lighting and club-grade sound.
The space is ready to rival the best bars in Los Angeles
This isn’t simply a lounge with speakers and mood lighting. It’s a purpose-built club environment capable of hosting a full-scale party without leaving the property.
For a house that already made headlines for excess before Persson bought it, the addition managed to take things considerably further.
And holds the home’s famous candy room
One of the quirkier features associated with 1181 N. Hillcrest Road is its candy room.
When the home sold in 2014, the room was reportedly stocked with roughly $200,000 worth of candy, another detail that helped the property go viral long before social-media-ready megamansions became commonplace.
Persson’s purchase originally included the house’s elaborate staging and furnishings, right down to some of its more unusual decorative elements.
The candy room has remained one of the property’s most recognizable talking points.
A multimillion-dollar recording studio has hosted major artists
Persson also added one of the estate’s most specialized features: a professional recording studio.
The multimillion-dollar setup includes a separate drum room and has been used by prominent recording artists, according to the listing team.
It turns the lower level into something approaching a private entertainment complex, particularly when combined with the nightclub next door.
Few homes at this price point can offer a genuinely professional recording environment without requiring a separate studio building.
Movie nights get a dedicated theater
There’s also a private cinema.
The home’s movie theater provides a dedicated screening environment away from the larger social areas.
Historically, the residence was marketed with an 18-seat tiered screening room, part of the over-the-top amenity package that helped attract attention during its original 2014 launch.
It remains part of a lower level where almost every space has been designed around entertainment.
A wine room keeps the adult refreshments covered
For something less sugary, the estate also has a dedicated wine room.
Between that, the nightclub bar and the home’s various entertaining spaces, refreshments have never exactly been an afterthought here.
Staff quarters and a security office work behind the scenes
The more practical side of running a property this large has also been considered.
Dedicated staff quarters provide accommodation within the home, while Persson added an on-site security office.
The lower-level bathrooms have also been renovated during his ownership, according to the current listing materials.
Those additions are less flashy than the nightclub and recording studio, but perhaps more revealing of what it actually takes to operate a house on this scale.
Trousdale Estates has long attracted major names
The address sits within Trousdale Estates, one of Beverly Hills’ best-known enclaves for significant midcentury and contemporary homes.
Hillcrest Road itself has accumulated enough big-ticket properties to earn the unofficial nickname “Billionaires’ Row.”
The street also has a deep celebrity history.
Elvis Presley lived nearby at 1174 N. Hillcrest Road from 1967 to 1973, while other notable Trousdale residents over the decades have included Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
The concentration of increasingly expensive modern mansions has only elevated the area’s profile since Persson arrived.
The $70M sale helped reshape Beverly Hills’ luxury market
When Persson closed on 1181 N. Hillcrest Road in 2014, a $70 million sale in Beverly Hills was extraordinary enough to set a city record.
Today, that same stretch of Trousdale is associated with homes carrying asking prices well into the tens of millions.
In that sense, Persson’s purchase became part of the shift toward a new generation of ultra-expensive Los Angeles homes.
And now the house that helped define that moment is back on the market.
Twelve years later, the asking price hasn’t moved
Perhaps the most surprising number attached to the new listing is not 22,300 square feet, 15 bathrooms or even the multimillion-dollar recording studio.
It’s $70 million. Persson is asking the exact same amount he paid in 2014.
What has changed is the house itself.
Over the intervening years, the Minecraft creator added a professional recording studio, private nightclub and other upgrades, while maintaining the property’s original collection of extravagant amenities.
Twelve years after a bidding battle involving some of the biggest names in entertainment helped turn 1181 N. Hillcrest Road into real estate legend, the next buyer now gets a shot at it.
The price of admission remains $70 million.
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