Homes Newly Minting Tech Millionaires Are Buying

Key Highlight

• Newest start-up millionaires buying cautiously
• Compared with splurges from past makers of overnight fortunes, newly rich techies buying more traditional value

Minimum of 35 Tech Companies Now Public in San Francisco Bay Area in Last 6 Months

Millionaire-minting IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) in Silicon Valley have been off the charts in the past 6 months.  Companies such as Airbnb, Door Dash, Snowflake, etc. have become public companies with a combined market value of $446B, according to The New York Times.

Equity Bee,a platform that shepherds along start-up equity transactions, estimated that just a fraction of these now public companies could newly mint some 7,000 millionaires once the “lockup periods” (periods that prevent company insiders from selling most of their stock soon after an IPO) expire in the coming months.

Techies Spending Different

Rather than buying airplanes, they’re buying Sprinter vans.  Rather than buying designer clothes, they’re buying new outfits that look good on Zoom calls.  Rather than buying fine art, they’re buying NFTs or non-fungible tokens that represent ownership in pieces of digital art or memes.  And they’re buying antiques…tried and true furnishings/objects that have and will continue to increase in value over time.

In a survey of employees in just seven of the now many public companies, Blind (an app for anonymous employee discussions) indicated they’re planning to buy homes once their “locked-up” windfalls are free to spend.

Home Buying Wants

These newly minting tech millionaires are searching for homes with outdoor space, home gyms and great Zoom rooms, of course.  And they’re looking  for traditional, pre-war “trophy homes” in the most established neighborhoods of San Francisco.  Think Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Pacific Heights and Sea Cliff.

Trauma Sparks Desire for “Normalcy and Solidity”

According to Joel Goodrich, a broker with Coldwell Banker Global Luxury in the city, “After a major trauma in the world or the nation (such as a global pandemic), a lot of times there is a turn to more traditional styles.  People want a sense of normalcy and solidity.”

Again, think historic mansions, intricate moldings and sumptuous, decorative architecture that portend long-lasting value and legitimacy regardless of external chaos and unpredictability in the “outside” world.

Newly minting millionaires on the east coast and Midwest are likely searching for the same types of homes in New York, Boston and Chicago.

Thanks to the New York Times.

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