Indian Creek Village, the Miami complex for billionaires where houses cost an average of 30 million

Miami is a city where it is not strange to see large mansions and all kinds of public exhibitions of the luxury that some can afford. And several steps above it is Indian Creek Villagean island of just 1.2 km2 where billionaires reside who can afford to pay the 30 million dollars average price for homes in this exclusive enclave, which is known in Miami as “the billionaires’ bunker.”

In exchange, the privileged residents of this island located in Biscayne Bay, in Miami Beach, have a extreme private securityproof of the most expert criminals and, in principle, with anonymityalthough numerous residents are known to have or have had this place.

Biscayne Bay is a tropical lagoon 56 kilometers long and 13 kilometers wide where the Miami River empties. It is located on the southern Atlantic coast of Florida, just 12 kilometers from the financial center of Miami, and is divided into three zones: North, Central and South Bay. In the northern part, the most populated, are the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, and also Indian Creek, while in the center and south is the Biscayne National Park, created in 1980.

The enclave takes its name from the Muscogui, Muskogui or Creek Indians, who lived in this region and comes to mean “The Village of the Creek Indians”, even if we don’t find any. The only people the billionaires who live there can run into in their ‘neighborhood’ are other billionaires.

Yes indeed, that residents do not expect surprise visits from their friendsbecause private security will not allow them access to the island unless they have been previously informed by the owners.

prefabricated island

Indian Creek Island it’s artificial. It was created at the beginning of the 20th century facing the town of Surfside as part of a project that envisioned a much larger island. But the initiative failed and the island was then converted into the luxury residential complex it is today.

The facility has a private golf course and exclusive for the neighbors that occupies the central part and the mansions surround it. Are 32 homes in total, all with their own port to anchor yachts and direct access to the sea. There is also an elitist member clubl so that the illustrious residents of the place can fraternize if they wish.

The climate is privileged in this area of ​​the United States and the neighborhood breathes tranquility, although without a doubt what the wealthy residents of Indian Creeek Village value most is the private security of the island and the comprehensive access controlwhich is only possible through the bridge that connects the island with the city of Surfside, where it is located a local police station.

Thirteen police officers make up the police station. They patrol the island 24 hours a day and they have a staff that is dedicated exclusively to scare away the paparazzi and to the curious who try to approach the island by sea.

Indian Creek Neighbors

Privacy is paramount at Indian Creek Village. Some of its past and current residents are known, although people from Miami also tend to speculate whether such a famous person resides there or not. It happened with the footballer Leo Messi, who was said to have acquired a mansion on the island when he signed at the beginning of last summer for Inter Miami, but it was finally proven that this was not the case and that Messi had bought a huge 975 square meter house in Fort Lauderdalejust 15 minutes from your team’s stadium.

Among the people who do reside on this island of less than 100 inhabitants are Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushnerwho bought a mansion for 32 million dollars; Gisele Bundchenthe highest-paid model in the world, and her husband, the American football player Tom Bradywho bought a ‘bargain’ house for ‘only’ $17 million. Jeff Bezosfounder of Amazon and the third largest fortune in the world, acquired a property there in 2023. 68 million mansion. The home was owned by MTM Star International, a firm linked to Panama.

Other illustrious neighbors are the model Adriana Lima; the emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani; the investor Edward Lampert or the founder of Hotels.com, Robert Diener.

He lived in Indian Creek Village for many years. Julio Iglesias, who also bought land so that his children could also move to the island, although in the end they did not do so and the singer ended up selling the land. In 2020, the singer pocketed 26 million euros for the sale of four plots that it has for sale.

Pandora’s shadow

Some of the residents of Indian Creek Village were involved in the case of the so-called Pandora Pepeles (Pandora Pepers), as Julio Iglesias, the Haitian businessman Gilbert Bigio or the signature Elad Invest Holding Corp. They all appear in the Pandora Papers as owners of plots of land and mansions in this “billionaire bunker”.

The Pandora Papers, not to be confused with the Panama Papers, are a set of 11.9 million leaked documents. The leak was announced on October 2, 2021 and the linked notes began to be made public on October 3. The information is related to various offshore accounts of personalitiespoliticians and very wealthy people, some of them accused of corruption, money laundering or tax evasion. Owning an offshore company is not necessarily illegal, but it can serve as a screen for crimes like these and even terrorism.

The Pepeles involve people in different countries around the world and reveal “financial secrets of 35 world leadersfrom more than 330 public officials from some 90 countries, from businessmen who appear in Forbes rankings, and a long list of evaders who operated in the shadows”in addition to citing 29,000 accounts abroad.

Among the people who appear in these Pandora Papers are the king Abdullah II of JordanPrime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babisand the presidents of Chile and Ecuador, Sebastián Piñera and Guillermo Lasso; and famous people like Julio Iglesias himself, Shakira, Pep Guardiola, Chayanne, Claudia Schiffer, Ringo Starr, Elton John or the writer Mario Vargas Llosa. In the Pandora Papers it is estimated that up to 32 billion dollars in taxes.