McAfee, founder of the antivirus software company that bears his name, will sell his 280-acre estate and 10,000-square-foot mansion in the Colorado mountains at an auction May 10.
"He's told me he'd like to see it sell for $20 million," real estate agent Keli Konczak said. But with no minimum bid and no reserve price on the estate, "it goes for what it goes for."
Konczak said she has handled other conventional property sales in Colorado for McAfee.
The mansion, outside Woodland Park about 50 miles south of Denver, has five bedroom suites, nine fireplaces, hand-carved doors, flagstone floors and unobstructed views of 14,110-foot Pikes Peak, according to The National Auction Group, which is handling the sale.
The surrounding compound abuts the Pike National Forest and also has three guest homes, two guest apartments and nine guest cabins, for a total of 19 bedrooms on the estate.
The property also has trout lakes, observation decks, picnic areas, meeting facilities, a horse paddock of about 10 acres, a six-car garage and paved parking for 36 cars.
Konczak suggested the property could be developed.
"Somebody could build a new subdivision, and with those incredible views, it would be something," she said.
She and William R. Bone, president of The National Auction Group, said McAfee told them he is selling the estate because he doesn't spend much time there any more.
Bone said this will be the fourth home National Auction has sold for McAfee in three years.
The other properties were a 1,044-acre oceanfront plantation in Hawaii, which sold for $3.13 million; a villa in Port Isabel, Texas, $2.2 million; and another oceanfront estate on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, $1.7 million.
"He enjoys the creation of beautiful properties -- he's trying to build something perfect, and that gives him pleasure," Bone said. ------
On the Net:
The National Auction Group's page on McAfee site: http://www.national-auction.com/default.aspx?id63This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page D6.
For more information on this home, or any other home in the Woodland Park, Teller County, Colorado Springs Area, Please contact Miranda Price at 719-641-8430 or mirandaprice@kw.com
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