Where Does Lauren Sanchez Live in Florida? Her Indian Creek Life

Where does Lauren Sanchez live? The former TV anchor, helicopter pilot and author lives on Indian Creek Island in Miami-Dade County with her husband, Jeff Bezos. The couple moved there from the Seattle area in late 2023 and married in Venice in June 2025. Her name is often written with an accent (Sanchez as Sánchez), but the story is the same either way. Here is what reporting says about her move to Florida, the island, her own path to Miami, and what a home near her costs today.

Key takeaways

• Indian Creek Island, Miami-Dade County: the guarded island village off Surfside that the press calls the Billionaire Bunker.
• The compound: three neighboring bayfront homes that Bezos bought between 2023 and 2024 for a reported $230 million to $237 million.
• Her own path: an Emmy-winning Los Angeles news career, an aerial film company she founded in 2016, and a Blue Origin space flight in April 2025.
• Market near her: nothing is listed on the island itself, while Bal Harbour across the bridge has a median asking price near $2.7 million.

Where does Lauren Sanchez live in Florida?

Indian Creek is a village of about 40 homes on a private island in Biscayne Bay. A golf course fills the middle, and the houses sit around the shoreline. One bridge leads in from Surfside, and the village has its own police. Neighbors include Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and Julio Iglesias. Hola and other outlets have run photos of Sanchez around Miami since the move, and by 2026 they described her as settled into Miami life.

The couple's compound is three adjoining properties on the bay side of the island. Bezos bought the first in August 2023 and the second that October, then added a third in 2024 to live in while the first two lots are rebuilt. Fortune, Robb Report and Forbes covered each purchase. The total is usually put at $237 million, though some accounts round it to $230 million. Our Jeff Bezos post covers those deals in detail. This post is about her. See the island on our Indian Creek page and the county on our Miami-Dade County page.

Inside the reported Indian Creek home

Public details are thin, because all three purchases were off-market. The first house was a three-bedroom home from the 1960s on a large waterfront lot. Next door, the second was the bigger of the two. Robb Report said the plan was to clear both and build one new estate, which is why the third house matters: it is where the couple actually lives while that work goes on. No floor plans, renderings or completion dates have appeared in print.

What the island offers is easier to describe. Each home has a dock on the bay, and most lots run well over an acre. The golf club in the center is private to residents and their guests. There are no shops, no schools and no through traffic, since the only road loops the course and ends where it began. Security patrols the water as well as the bridge. For someone who spent years on live television, the appeal is simple: nobody gets near the house without an invitation.

Sanchez has said little about the house itself. In her 2025 Vogue cover interview she talked about the Koru, the couple's sailing yacht, where Bezos proposed by tucking a ring under her pillow. She also told Vogue that the two of them see everything as shared and think of themselves as a team. That is as close as she has come to describing home. Pure Equity does not publish private addresses, so we name the island only.

Why Lauren Sanchez chose Miami

The move was a joint one, and Bezos gave the public reasons in his November 2023 Instagram post: his parents had moved to Florida, and Miami is closer to Blue Origin's launches at Cape Canaveral. Reports at the time added that the couple both liked the city. For Sanchez, the shift was bigger than it was for him. He had grown up partly in Miami. She had built her whole adult life in Los Angeles.

Miami does offer things she uses. It has a large Spanish-speaking community, and she grew up in a Mexican-American family in Albuquerque. It has a strong aviation scene, with private helicopter and jet traffic out of Opa-locka and Miami Executive airports. And it puts her a short flight from the Space Coast, which mattered in April 2025 when she flew on Blue Origin's all-female New Shepard crew with Katy Perry and Gayle King. That flight left from West Texas, but the planning ran through Florida.

Where else does Lauren Sanchez live?

Before Florida, her base was Los Angeles. She anchored at KCOP, where her team won an Emmy in 1999, and co-hosted Good Day LA on Fox 11 for years, with her last run on the show ending in 2017. In 2016 she founded Black Ops Aviation, an aerial film and production company, and flew for it herself as a licensed helicopter pilot. The Vertical Flight Society gave her its Elling Halvorson Hall of Fame award in 2024 for that work.

Since the move she has kept ties to the West Coast. Bezos still owns a large Beverly Hills estate, per past reporting, and she has been photographed there and in Aspen. She also travels for the Bezos Earth Fund, where she is vice chair. So Florida is home, and California is the place she still works from part of the year. She published her first children's book, The Fly Who Flew to Space, in 2024, and it reached the New York Times bestseller list.

What homes near Lauren Sanchez cost

The island is closed to most buyers, so the useful numbers come from the towns around it. Our MLS feed as of September 2026 shows zero active listings on Indian Creek. Bal Harbour, on the ocean side of the same bridge, has about 155 listings and a median asking price near $2.7 million, with homes taking about 200 days to sell. Surfside has about 129 listings at a median near $1.1 million, and its bayfront strip looks straight across at the island.

For a bigger pool of waterfront estates, Coral Gables has about 436 listings with a median near $2 million, and its gated Gables Estates and Cocoplum neighborhoods have the same kind of deep-water lots. Our waterfront homes hub gathers those listings across the county, and our luxury homes page covers the top of the market. Buyers who want a guard gate without an island can start with our gated communities page.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Lauren Sanchez live now?

She lives on Indian Creek Island in Miami-Dade County with Jeff Bezos. They moved there in late 2023 and married in 2025. Construction on their combined lots was still reported as underway in 2025.

Where in Miami does Lauren Sanchez live?

On Indian Creek Island, the private village between Surfside and Bay Harbor Islands. We do not publish the lot or house number. It is a few minutes by car from the Bal Harbour Shops.

Where does Lauren Sanchez live full time?

Florida is the full-time home. Where does Lauren Sanchez live when she is on the West Coast? Reports place the couple at a Beverly Hills estate that Bezos has owned since 2020, and she still has work and family ties in Los Angeles.

Is Lauren Sanchez from Florida?

No. She was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and built her television career in Los Angeles. Miami is a new city for her, though her husband went to high school there.

Did Lauren Sanchez buy the Indian Creek homes?

Reports credit the purchases to Bezos, through entities tied to him, before the couple married. She has described the marriage as a partnership where everything is shared. No public record lists her as a separate buyer.

Can you buy a home near Indian Creek?

Yes. Surfside, Bal Harbour and Bay Harbor Islands all have active listings, from condos to bayfront houses. The island itself trades privately, so an agent who works those towns is the practical way in. Expect bayfront houses in Surfside to start well above the town median, since the water view faces the island.

If you own a home in Surfside, Bal Harbour or anywhere in Miami-Dade County and want to know its value today, get a free home valuation from Pure Equity. Buyers can browse Bal Harbour listings or see luxury homes across South Florida. For two more Indian Creek stories, read where Mark Zuckerberg lives and where Ivanka Trump lives.

Sources

• Fox 29, Lauren Sanchez offers up more info on how the Jeff Bezos proposal went down (Vogue interview)
• Hola, Lauren Sanchez Bezos embraces Miami life
• Robb Report, Jeff Bezos buys a third Indian Creek Island property
• Yahoo News, Photos of Blue Origin astronaut Lauren Sanchez

Based on publicly reported information; details may change and are not independently verified by Pure Equity. We do not publish private addresses.