The TL;DR
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has assembled a $200M+ portfolio of privacy-focused properties, from a 3,700-acre Colorado monastery to a Miami compound. The privacy lifestyle is very different from the surveillance software his company sells to governments.
Alex Karp, founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, has quietly amassed a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million in a reported 20 locations worldwide. A common thread is privacy: a former monastery in the mountains of Colorado, a rural New Hampshire estate, and villas on a gated Miami island.
Karp, who is worth an estimated $14.4 billion as of early July according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, said he never learned to drive because he was once “very poor” and now “he is very rich.” The fortune behind his purchase comes from Palantir, which has revenue of $1.63 billion in Q1 2026, up 85% year-over-year, driven by growing demand for AI and data analytics platforms from governments and defense organizations.
A monastery
In December 2025, Karp paid $120 million for the Saint Benedict farm, a 3,700-acre property in the Capitol Creek Valley near Snowmass, Colorado, about 15 miles north of Aspen. The deal, done through an entity called Espen LLC, set a record for Pitkin County and was one of the most sold residential properties in Colorado history.
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Trappist monks of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance ruled the land since 1956, making a living by farming and selling sweets. Their numbers dwindled over the decades until only five remained, and the General Chapter of the order 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 asking. The complex includes a chapel, monastic quarters, a retreat center, 1,200 acres of irrigated meadows with high water rights, and three river systems that stretch over five miles.
Karp is an avid cross-country skier who reportedly trains 12 to 15 miles daily. The 3,700-acre property in the Elk Mountains is a fitting base for someone whose fitness regimen is best described as artisanal.
The Miami compound
In June 2025, a Delaware corporation called Hibiscus East LLC purchased a 10,000-square-foot waterfront mansion at 55 East San Marino Drive for $46 million. Business Insider reported that the LLC is connected to a New Hampshire attorney and accounting firm that appeared in documents related to Karp’s previous transactions.
Karp then bought the house next door at 29 East San Marino Drive for $28.5 million, bringing his net worth on the island to about $75 million. The second property was listed at $30 million and went under contract in eight days.
Together, the two properties total more than 0.8 acres and 265 feet of river, and The Real Deal reported that the acquisition appears to be the beginning of a combination. San Marino is one of the six Venetian man-made islands in Biscayne Bay, a special place whose former and current residents include basketball player Dwyane Wade and singer Gloria Estefan.
The Miami purchase comes ahead of Palantir’s decision to move its headquarters from Denver to Aventura, a Miami-area suburb, in February 2026. The company is currently operating in a co-working space while searching for permanent offices in locations including Wynwood, Brickell, and Coral Gables.
New Hampshire property
Karp’s primary residence is reportedly a 500-acre property in Lyman, New Hampshire, part of which he purchased for $825,000 in 2019. He is known to work in the barn of that place.
Lyman is a rural town in Grafton County with less than 600 residents, about two hours south of Manchester. Despite running one of the most sought-after companies in the defense technology sector, Karp chose a relatively unremarkable city as his home base, a pattern that extends to every key asset in his portfolio.
Developed by Palantir
The breakdown of Karp’s life is surprising because of what Palantir did. The company took over Project Maven, the Pentagon’s AI drone analysis program that Google abandoned after worker protests, and its surveillance systems used by ICE, the military, and hundreds of local law enforcement agencies across the United States.
Karp defended the project as essential to national security, saying that democracies need tools powerful enough to compete with ministerial adversaries. The company continues to expand its government space, competing for contracts that include the FAA’s air traffic prediction AI system, and its stock has risen more than 600% since early 2024.
The pattern
Karp’s earnings fluctuate with Palantir’s share price, which traded between $106 and $208 last year, meaning Bloomberg’s value is a snapshot rather than a fixed number. The reported 20 property portfolio has not been independently verified as a whole.
What’s confirmed is the scale of his latest purchases: $120 million in Colorado, $75 million in Miami, and a 500-acre estate in one of New Hampshire’s most sparsely populated towns. Together, they built a portfolio designed around the one principle that Karp’s company has built a $75 billion business out of undermining: the right to be left alone.
