It’s been a whirlwind few months for Taylor Swift with the release of her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, following hot on the heels of her picture-perfect engagement to boyfriend Travis Kelce at the end of August. Now, Swift has announced The End of an Era, a six-part docuseries premiering December 12 on Disney+ alongside an extended edition of her record-breaking concert film, Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show, that will pull back the curtain on her life during one of the most ambitious tours in pop history.
One thing that will never change is her status as America’s beloved pop princess. Beginning her impressive career in the musical city of Nashville, Tennessee, Taylor has since decamped to many a great city across America, from New York to Los Angeles to Nashville to Watch Hill, Rhode Island, writing songs about each city – and, of course, purchasing properties along the way.
While the singer often spends time between her New York City home and Kansas City, where Travis Kelce plays as a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, the couple are reportedly also house hunting in Cleveland, Ohio, where Travis was born. Sources told The New York Post that Hunting Valley is the likely spot for their house hunt. The village in the Chagrin River Valley, where Travis and Taylor were spotted at local restaurant Jojo's, is known for its palatial properties and a 5-acre minimum plots. Alongside a possible new pad in Ohio, reports have recently emerged suggesting that Taylor is also on the lookout for a house in London, and like many of us she has fallen for the picturesque and star-studded neighbourhoods of Hampstead and St John's Wood.
Below, we've rounded up Taylor Swift's house portfolio – valued at over £123 million.
Inside Taylor Swift's property portfolio
The Adelicia, 900 20th Avenue S, Nashville, Tennessee
Having begun her career at the ripe age of 14, Taylor had already accrued tonnes of fame – and royalties – by the time she made her first real estate acquisition in 2009 at just 20 years old. Having moved to the famous Music City with her family a few years prior, Taylor decided to put down permanent roots with her purchase of a 3,240-square-foot industrial-style condominium in the luxury loft building, the Adelicia. The singer designed the “whimsically girly” interiors of the sprawling loft herself, whose theme she described in an interview with Vulture at New York Magazine in 2013 as a “shabby-chic Alice in Wonderland”.
32 Northumberland, Nashville, Tennessee
Taylor purchased her second property in the musical city of Nashville in 2011, paying $2.5m (£2m) for this Greek Revival house within the gated Northumberland Estate community. Spanning 5,600 square feet, the house was redesigned for the singer, reflecting her comfortable, contemporary tastes; the 2,000-square-foot guesthouse at the back of the property is reported have been renovated into an impressive music and recording studio (if only those padded walls could talk).
1200 Laurel Lane, Beverly Hills, California
Taylor's first foray into the West Coast market is quite an impressive one: the historic Samuel Goldwyn Estate, built in 1934 for famous Hollywood film producer. Purchased in 2015 for an undisclosed price, the sprawling 10-bedroom mansion is currently valued at over $30m (£24m) and is undergoing major restoration to receive historic landmark status, a process overseen by Taylor.
Watch Hill House, Westerly, Rhode Island
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Purchased amid her romance with the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, Connor, Taylor upped her East Coast elite property game, setting her sights on Watch Hill House in the affluent town of Westerly, Rhode Island, close to the famous Newport, the former summer mansion of the eminent Harkness family. The 12,000-square-foot beach house has been witness to the singer's infamous, highly-Instagrammed Independence Day parties held every year since its purchase pre-pandemic; its infamous history is the subject of her song “Dorothea” from Taylor's 2020 album, evermore. With Slim Aarons-inspired interiors, a magnificent pool and sprawling ocean views, Watch Hill is certainly one of the most valuable assets in Taylor's breathtaking portfolio.
153-155 Franklin Street, New York, New York
We've called Taylor Swift the queen of the music industry, but she is fast coming for the crown as the Queen of Tribeca (of which Robert De Niro is, unquestionably, the King). In 2014, Taylor Swift purchased a pink brick, five-bedroom townhouse at 153 Franklin Street from Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson as her welcome to New York; soon after, the singer purchased the adjacent townhouse for $18m (£14.5m), and combined the two in a half-million-dollar renovation headed by architect Leopoldo Rosati, which forced her decampment to the famous carriage house rental on Cornelia Street. The fashionably furnished mega-townhouse furnished is currently valued at $16.6m (£13.4m).
In early 2018, Taylor scooped up even more property on Franklin Street in the former Sugar Loaf warehouse – now a luxury loft building home to many other celebrities, from comedian Aziz Ansari to the disgraced French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who rented a loft here while awaiting trial – at number 155. The 3,540-square-foot loft, purchased from financier Jeremy Philips for $9.75m (£7.84m), features hardwood floors, open-plan living spaces complete with wood-burning fireplaces and three comfortable bedrooms.
23 Cornelia Street, New York, New York
As far as many Swifties are concerned, this sprawling West Village townhouse is one to be labelled a city landmark. The sprawling four-bedroom, seven-bathroom 19th-century converted carriage house in Manhattan's West Village neighbourhood is not only the former home to Taylor, it is also the subject of her 2019 song “Cornelia Street” from her album, ‘Lover’, and supposedly written about either her former beau, Joe Alwyn, or ex-friend, Karlie Kloss. Taylor moved to the luxurious, open-plan townhouse in 2016 whilst her Tribeca townhouses were under construction; after her leaving in late 2019, the property went on the market for $11.5m (£9.25m) and is currently available to rent for $45,000 (approximately £37,000) per month.
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