Jay-Z and Beyoncés Houses: Inside Their Real Estate Portfolio Worth Hundreds of Millions

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Outside, there’s a 1,000 rose bushes, 2 pools, and stunning ocean views. All this space and opulence is exactly why the home is currently on the market for $54,500,000. After the birth of their twins in June 2017, Beyoncé and Jay Z rented this massive Malibu estate for a reported $400,000/month. The home was designed by home whisperer and spec-home genius, Paul McClean. Developer Tyrone McKillen bought the lot and previous home for $15 million in 2015.

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It was purchased by a mysterious “British Billionaire” for $45 million in 2014, which is who Beyoncé and Jay Z rented from. It has its own history in Hollywood prior to it’s new found fame thanks to Beyonce. Known as La Villa Contenta, this estate was portrayed as the domicile of the Vampire Queen on HBO’s hit drama True Blood. July of the same year, Beyonce decided to list the home for $3.45 million, upping the price to $4.45 million by August. The listing was removed in October 2021, but details on whether the couple actually sold the home yet are unknown. Ando, who also designed Kanye West’s Malibu beachfront home, built the digs in collaboration with award-winning architect (and protégé) Kulapat Yantrasast, who runs the firm WHY out of New York and Los Angeles.

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Soon after her album drop, she threw a secret party in New York City, which reportedly had a Studio 54 theme, in tribute to the city’s iconic disco club. Donald Glover, Chloë and Halle Bailey, Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monae and Questlove were all in attendance. The mastermind behind the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises has reportedly spent more than $100 million to develop a 4,700-acre property in secluded Nicasio, Calif., a rural patch north of San Francisco. Aptly called Skywalker Ranch, the property includes a man-made lake, a restaurant and a fire station, as well as sound-mixing and recording facilities.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s Houses: Inside Their Real Estate Portfolio Worth Hundreds of Millions

The media mogul, actress and philanthropist reportedly paid $52 million for her Montecito mansion, which covers 23,000 square feet and sits on 70 landscaped acres. It is now worth significantly more — its 2022 assessment record in Santa Barbara County put the home’s value at more than $100 million, with taxes alone topping $1 million. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are said to be regular guests, although their March 2021 bombshell interview with the talk-show queen wasn’t filmed in her backyard.

In May 2023, Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z purchased a $200 million dollar Malibu home overlooking the Pacific Ocean, inking the most expensive real estate deal in California history, according to TMZ. The colossal concrete compound sits on 8 acres of pristine land off the Southern California coast and has its own private beach, swimming pool, and a water feature in addition to the 40,000 square foot residence. One week after welcoming twins Rumi and Sir in June 2017, the elated parents (they also share 12-year-old daughter Blue) opted to temporarily move into an estate in Malibu to recoup and get to know the latest additions to their family.

The Pond House is a 12,000-square-foot behemoth designed by renowned architect Stanford White, situated just off Georgica Pond. The estate includes 203 feet of waterfront property and is adjacent to a massive 17-acre meadow preserve, ensuring that the Carters have the utmost privacy. In 2017, they shelled out $88 million for an impressive Bel-Air pad, and they also own homes in New York City and the Hamptons. The Carters’ recent purchase surpassed the former record of a $177 million Malibu compound purchased by billionaire Marc Andreessen in 2021, TMZ reported. Still, however, the most expensive sale in the nation still belongs to billionaire hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin, who purchased a New York City penthouse for $238 million. The married moguls’ new Pacific Coast Highway abode was designed by architect Tadao Ando and measures in at 30,000 square feet, plenty of space for their three children to enjoy.

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The home holds architectural significance as one of only a few private residences designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando in the United States. His non-residential work in the U.S. includes the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in Missouri and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The pair also famously rented a home in nearby Wainscott, located just off Georgica Pond, with friend and Roc-A-Fella Records CEO Damon Dash for two weekends that July. “I felt like a little kid in a big haunted house there,” Jay-Z told New York magazine at the time. The Italianate stucco house sat on 8.5 acres and featured an indoor-outdoor pool and a 120-seat screening room, which was used for an intimate yet star-studded premiere of End of Watch starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Celebrities like Madonna and Jennifer Lopez have also been known to rent the property.

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The wealthy couple once lived in a 13,000 sq ft home in New Orleans, which was once a Presbyterian church, with towering 10-metre (26-foot) ceilings and vast windows, according to Love Property. Call them perfectionists or difficult to impress, but the 53-year-old record executive and his 41-year-old American singer wife spent no less than three years looking for their dream home. They lived in a string of ultra-expensive rentals till they found and zeroed in on their US$88 million newly-built Bel Air estate, per CNBC. It was featured in the 1998 cult-classic The Big Lebowski as Jeffery Lebowski’s mansion. It was last on the market for $65 million when Jamie McCourt decided to sell the home.

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Yep, news broke today that the A-list celebrity couple just bought a brand spankin' new 30,000 square foot home in Malibu. The house was owned and built by William Bell, one of the biggest art collectors in the world. Hedge fund founder Ken Griffin still holds the title for the biggest real estate purchase in the nation, putting down a whopping $238 million for his Central Park South high-rise in 2019. Celebrity real estate agent Kurt Rappaport, who reportedly brokered the deal, did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment. Superstar couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z smashed a real estate record with the purchase of their new Malibu home.

The account so far has 3,617 followers and it’s only following Beyoncé, Diplo, Morgan Wallen, Stagecoach, Guy Fieri and Dolly Parton. Missed out on Beyoncé‘s Club Renaissance parties following the release of her seventh studio album? Well, Queen Bey gave fans a little holiday gift on Thursday (Dec. 15) when she revealed that she will be throwing two more events, this time in Los Angeles. The event follows a number of other Club Renaissance parties Beyoncé has thrown across the globe in celebration of her newest album.

The seller is renowned art collector William Bell, son of the creator of American soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. Bell, who bought the property in 2003 at $14.5 million, spent over 15 years completing the 30,000 square feet compound–designed to showcase his legendary art collection. The couple moved into their mansion in August 2017, marking the highest-selling transaction in LA in 2017. Just this year, the songstress, who is currently traveling across Europe on her Renaissance World Tour, claimed the title for most Grammy wins of all time. Now, the power couple can count a groundbreaking real estate record as one of their own, after the purchase of a $200 million Malibu home—the priciest in the history of The Golden State, TMZ reports.

Its seller was art collector Bill Bell Jr., who is also the heir to a soap opera fortune, as the son of the creators of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. It reportedly took Bell over a decade and a half to finish construction on the concrete property. The median price for a single-family home in the city has more than doubled since 2016, to nearly $7m. Some of Malibu’s new elite homeowners are now cobbling together multiple properties to build mega-luxury compounds, according to the Journal. The WhatsApp CEO, Jan Koum, bought two adjoining properties for a combined $187m, while Marc Andreessen owns three different Malibu homes with a total value of $255.5m. Meanwhile, Beyoncé’s bachelorette pad for the first few years of their relationship was a $5 million condo in midtown Manhattan overlooking Central Park, which she purchased in 2005.

Media outlets began reporting that Beyoncé and Jay Z made an astronomical offer on the hillside mansion at the end of a secluded street in Bel Air. The Los Angeles Times Hot Property section confirmed this news on August 18th of 2017. Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s $88 million offer was accepted and the purchase was official. Half a decade after she returned to film in the live-action remake of The Lion King, Beyoncé has signed on to appear in another, similar movie. The Parisian fest was just one of many Club Renaissance parties the “Alien Superstar” singer had thrown in secret around the globe.

With its steep green cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Malibu is a top contender in America’s ultra-luxury real estate market. Its rise in the rankings of the favorite spots of the super-rich was solidified again in past weeks, with reports that Beyoncé and Jay-Z purchased a 40,000 sq ft oceanfront mansion in the coastal enclave. Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s purchase of the monumental home marks the most expensive residential real-estate deal in California history. It is also the second-most expensive home price in U.S. history; Citadel founder Kenneth Griffin’s penthouse on New York’s Billionaires’ Row went for $238 million in 2019—although, to split hairs, that is an apartment, not a house. Beyoncé and Jay-Z even got a deal on their new digs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, paying $95 million under the original ask. His style is on full display here, as the L-shaped mansion opens to vast, open spaces marked by concrete hallways and floor-to-ceiling walls of glass.

Commissioned in the late 1990s, this contemporary design took nearly 15 years to plan and build. It sounds like an insane amount of money even after scoring a whopping US$100 million off – the house had been privately listed at US$295 million. Their next-door neighbour, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, holds the record for the second most expensive home bought for a staggering US$177 million in 2021. Bell took almost 15 years to build the all-concrete structure — concrete being a staple material of the architect behind the design — with nearly $100 million in loans.

Apparently that’s the biggest real estate transaction in California history, smashing the previous record of $177 million. It’s also the second most expensive home real estate deal in US history — behind only a $238 million transaction for a property in New York City. The concrete home overlooks the Pacific Ocean and has striking features, an expansive lawn on either side, and plenty of privacy for the ultra-famous family of five. The sale was brokered by Kurt Rappaport, a celebrity real estate agent of the Westside Estate Agency, who represented both the buyer and the seller in the sale. The colossal home spans nearly eight acres and has a private beach, infinity pool that seems to stretch off into the ocean, and Zen water features.