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Palantir CEO Alex Karp has assembled a more than $200 million real estate portfolio focused on seclusion, from a 3,700-acre monastery in Colorado to a resort in Miami. The privacy-obsessed lifestyle contrasts sharply with the surveillance software his company sells to governments.
Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologieshas quietly assembled a real estate portfolio valued at more than $200 million across 20 properties around the world. The common thread is isolation: an ancient monastery in the mountains of Colorado, a rural compound in New Hampshire and a pair of mansions on a closed island in Miami.
Karp, whose net worth was $14.4 billion as of early July according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has said he never learned to drive because he was once “too poor“and now it is”too rich”The fortune that finances his acquisitions comes from Palantir, whose revenue reached $1.63 billion in the first quarter of 2026an 85% increase year over year, driven by growing demand for its data analytics and artificial intelligence platforms from governments and defense agencies.
the monastery
In December 2025, Karp paid $120 million for St. Benedict’s Monastery Ranch, a 3,700-acre property in the Capitol Creek Valley near Snowmass, Colorado, about 15 miles north of Aspen. The deal, made through an entity called Espen LLC, set a record for Pitkin County and was one of the largest residential sales in Colorado history.
Trappist monks of the Cistercian Order of Strict Observance had administered the land since 1956, supporting themselves through farming and selling sweets. Their numbers dwindled over the decades until only five remained, and the order’s General Chapter voted to close the monastery in the fall of 2022.
The property was listed for $150 million in April 2024 before selling for $30 million below the asking price. The complex includes a chapel, monk housing, a retreat center, 1,200 acres of irrigated meadows with senior water rights, and three stream systems stretching more than five miles.
Karp is an avid cross-country skier who reportedly trains 12 to 15 miles daily. A 3,700-acre property in the Elk Mountains is a suitable base for someone whose fitness regimen is best described as vocational.
The Miami complex
In June 2025, a Delaware entity called Hibiscus East LLC purchased a nearly 10,000-square-foot waterfront mansion at 55 East San Marino Drive for $46 million. Business Insider reported that the LLC is linked to a New Hampshire law and accounting firm that have appeared in documents linked to Karp’s previous transactions.
Karp then purchased the house next door at 29 East San Marino Drive for $28.5 million, bringing his total investment on the island to nearly $75 million. The second property was listed at $30 million and the contract was signed in eight days.
Together, the two lots total more than 0.8 acres with 265 feet of ocean frontage, and The real deal reported that the acquisitions appear to be the beginning of a complex. San Marino is one of six artificial Venetian islands in Biscayne Bay, an exclusive enclave whose past and present residents include basketball player Dwyane Wade and singer Gloria Estefan.
The Miami purchases preceded Palantir’s decision to move its headquarters from Denver to Aventura, a Miami-area suburb, in February 2026. The company currently operates out of a co-working space as it seeks permanent offices in areas such as Wynwood, Brickell and Coral Gables.
The New Hampshire Complex
Karp’s primary residence is a 500-acre farm in Lyman, New Hampshire, part of which he purchased for $825,000 in 2019. He is known to work in the barn on the property.
Lyman is a rural town in Grafton County with fewer than 600 residents, nearly two hours south of Manchester. Despite running one of the most followed companies in the defense technology sector, Karp chose a nearly invisible city as his base of operations, a pattern that extends to every major property in his portfolio.
What Palantir builds
The isolation of Karp’s lifestyle draws attention to what Palantir does. The company took over the Maven Projectthe Pentagon’s AI drone analysis program that Google abandoned after employee protests, and Their platforms feed surveillance systems used by ICE, the military, and hundreds of local law enforcement agencies across the United States.
Karp has defended this work as essential to national security, arguing that democracies need tools powerful enough to compete with authoritarian adversaries. The company continues to expand its presence in government.competing for contracts that include the FAA’s predictive air traffic artificial intelligence system, and its shares have risen more than 600% since the beginning of 2024.
the pattern
Karp’s net worth fluctuates with the price of Palantir shares, which have traded between $106 and $208 over the past year, meaning Bloomberg’s figure is a snapshot rather than a fixed number. The reported portfolio of 20 properties has not been fully independently confirmed.
What is confirmed is the magnitude of his recent purchases: $120 million in Colorado, $75 million in Miami and a 500-acre property in one of the least populated cities in New Hampshire. Together, they form a portfolio designed around a single principle that Karp’s own company has managed to undermine in a $75 billion business: the right to be left alone.
