Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom’s luxury five-bedroom property near Glenorchy has been listed for sale this week.
His wife Elizabeth Dotcom’s company, American Dream Ltd, bought the top-of-the-hill property in the gated Wyuna estate in 2021 for $15.1 million.
As of last September, the 2.6ha property, including an architecturally-designed 650sq m mansion, was valued at $15.63m, comprising $12.55m in building value and $3.080m in land value. However the sale price is “by negotiation”.
Kim Dotcom — who has lived in New Zealand since 2010 — has been facing copyright charges in the United States in relation to his former file-sharing website, Megaupload, since 2012.
Last month, the High Court rejected his latest bid to halt his deportation to the United States, in which he challenged a decision last year by Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith by way of a judicial review.
However, in response his lawyer said “we have much fight left in us as we seek to secure a fair outcome”.
Since a severe stroke last November, Dotcom, who did not respond to an Allied Media request for comment, and his family had been living in a mansion near Dunedin to be close to medical facilities, but they relocated back to Wyuna in May.
Potentially complicating the Wyuna sale are two caveats lodged on the title a year ago by American Roger Keith Ver.
He is reputed to have been the first investor in Bitcoin, in 2011.
His consent would be needed before the property could sell.
— Allied Media