Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch is up for sale

If you are one of Michael Jackson’s Superfans then here is a chance to purchase the ultimate piece of MJ memorabilia: his Neverland Ranch home! Complete with a train station, lake and floral clock, the ranch can be yours. But you have to have $100 million!

The 2,700-acre property, located in Los Olivos, a small town in central California, is currently on the market. Now being called its pre-Jackson name, Sycamore Valley Ranch, the property looks very different from when Jackson was living there. Jackson famously installed an entire amusement park on the property, as well as a small zoo and other attractions to create the ultimate playground for him and the kids that he would invite to join him there.

According to the Los Angeles Times, only a few of Jackson’s attractions remain; all of the carnival rides and zoo animals are long gone.

Jackson purchased the property in 1988 and lived there until 2005. After the ranch was search in 2003 in relation to Jackson’s child molestation trial, the singer told the press that he would no longer live on the property because it felt “violated.” In 2006, he closed most of the attractions and dismissed the ranch’s staff. Although he no longer lived on the property, he maintained ownership of Neverland until he went into default on the loan. In 2008 the loan was purchased by Colony Capital, who restored it. Jackson died in 2009.

Neverland Ranch, as it looked in 2003.

While the property boasts a six-bedroom mansion, several guesthouses, sports courts and a sparkling swimming pool, one expert says that potential buyers may not be able to get over the property’s tainted past.

“It’s hard to get by the fact that Neverland is closely associated with child molestation,” consulting specialist Randall Bell told the LA Times. “I think $100 million is very optimistic.”

Jackson called the property Neverland, after an island in the story Peter Pan where people never had to grow up. He often said that he turned the ranch into a child’s paradise as a way to relive the childhood he never got to have, due to being a child star.

“I’m just creating behind the gate what I never got to do when I was a kid,” he said of the property in 2002. “Nature made sure that I compensate for the loss. So, when you come behind my gates, you’ll see an amusement park, you’ll see animals, you’ll see everything that I’ve never got to do, there’s candy everywhere… It’s fun.”

The property is currently on the market and does not appear to have any buyers yet.