AllThingsD » virtual tour http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:29:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 The $35,000 House Tour, Guided by Bill Gates http://allthingsd.com/20091111/the-35000-house-tour-guided-by-bill-gates/ http://allthingsd.com/20091111/the-35000-house-tour-guided-by-bill-gates/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:25:09 +0000 Peter Kafka http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=12903 gates houseIf you want to buy Bill Gates’s house, you’ll need something like $150 million. But a tour of the place, guided by the Microsoft (MSFT) co-founder himself? That’s a mere $35,000.

That’s how much an unnamed bidder has ponied up, via a Microsoft charity auction, for a look-see at Gates’s place. After the tour of the 48,000-square-foot complex, which is located outside Seattle on the shores of Lake Washington, the winner gets to nosh on some appetizers, TechFlash reports.

A year ago, the same tour, of the same house, fetched just $8,600. Go figure.

All of that is out of your price range? I understand. Here, for us proles, is a free, “virtual” tour of the place:


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