When one looks back at Ariana Grande’s houses over the years, a map of her ever-evolving career begins to emerge. While she’s currently all over the news for her lead role in Jon M. Chu’s film version of Wicked, the pop star actually got her start on Broadway in a short-running show called 13: The Musical.
“I am so thankful for the ways in which my career took pivots and pop became my main thing, but I also think my soul deeply misses musical theater and comedy,” she recently told The New York Times. “So as soon as I got murmurs of the fact that [Wicked] could possibly be turning into a film, all I wanted was a chance to audition.”
Wicked marks a full-circle return to her original love, but over the past decade, Ariana Grande has flexed her talents via seven chart-topping studio albums (not to mention hosting Saturday Night Live not once, but three times). Along the way, the Florida native has bought and sold an impressive array of properties on both coasts, ranging from a unique English-style manor that she purchased from Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi to a luxurious apartment in Chelsea. Prior to investing millions in real estate, however, the Eternal Sunshine singer was a renter, trying out pads in different neighborhoods for months and years at a time.
Below, we go through some of the places that Grande has called home.
French manor-style rental
After her Broadway debut, a young Grande starred in Nickelodeon’s Victorious in the early 2010s, followed by a spin-off, Sam & Cat, which ran for one season. By 2013, as the rising star was shifting her focus from acting to singing (she released her first hit, “The Way,” that year), Grande and her mother, Joan, rented a luxurious French-manor-style house in LA’s Toluca Lake neighborhood. Spanning approximately 10,000 square feet, the property boasted amenities such as a wine cellar in the formal dining room, a chef’s kitchen with a granite center island, a home theater, and a gym. The home, which was built in 2007, also boasted coffered ceilings, wood and stone floors, and seven fireplaces with hand-carved mantels. While it’s unclear how much Grande and her mom paid per month for the rental, it last sold for $6.5 million in November 2015, according to Realtor.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Tudor-style home
Grande and her mother next moved into a rental in LA’s Hancock Park that previously belonged to iconic film director Francis Ford Coppola. The 6,041-square-foot Tudor-style home featured six bedrooms, a soaring two-story entryway, a gourmet kitchen, a wood-paneled sunroom, and a generously sized pool and spa. The “Positions” singer reportedly left her mark by installing a recording studio in the basement, which still exists to this day. Grande gave fans a tour of the home in 2012, revealing her impressive collection of shoes and an entire wall of photos of friends, as well as what she dubbed the “creepy vampire dining room,” which boasted stained-glass windows and wood paneling. Though it is not publicly known exactly how much the mother-daughter pair paid for their stay there, the home was reportedly on the rental market for $18,900 a month in 2012.
Mediterranean-inspired canyon mansion
The singer had churned out two hit albums—2013’s Yours Truly and 2014’s My Everything—by the time she moved into her next pad. In 2015, she rented a Mediterranean-inspired mansion situated in the Benedict Canyon area of LA. The secluded property measured more than 6,000 square feet and featured five bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms overlooking the city skyline. The marble interiors of the home showed up frequently on Grande’s social media feeds (fans are sure to recognize the intricate wrought-iron railings). The singer lived there for several years before turning her attention toward the buyer’s market.
Luxurious Chelsea apartment
In 2018, the singer officially became a homeowner. At the time, she was in a headline-making, whirlwind romance with then Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson (the pair began dating in May of that year and got engaged several weeks later). The singer reportedly paid $16 million for a swanky Chelsea apartment in a Zaha Hadid–designed building outfitted with all the amenities one might expect for a megastar of her caliber: an IMAX theater, a sauna, a private spa, and a pool. The unit measured 4,000 square feet and boasted five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms. In an interview with GQ, Davidson joked about feeling out of place in the high-end pad. “She’s really sweet. She’s like, ‘This is our house,’ and I’m like, ‘You’re very nice for saying that. Thank you for letting me stay here,’” he said. “It’s like, we have six beanbags, but we have no forks—you know what I mean? We’re learning how to be adults. We’re having a really fun time.” Grande and Davidson called it quits on their relationship five months later, and Grande sold the condo for $13.5 million in 2021.
Hollywood Hills home
Two years later, in June 2020, Grande set down roots on the West Coast with the purchase of a brand new ultra modern, three-story property with floor-to-ceiling windows in the Hollywood Hills, designed by LA-based firm iDGroup. Set on a third of an acre, the $13.7 million hillside dwelling measured more than 10,000 square feet, with four bedrooms and seven bathrooms. The modern, minimalist aesthetic of the place was complimented by a host of top-tier amenities, including a fitness studio, a cedar-lined wellness center, and a 300-bottle wine cellar on the lower floor. An infinity pool and an expansive back deck were accessible through a set of glass sliders and offered unobstructed views of the Pacific Ocean. Despite the property’s incredible offerings, however, Grande didn’t stay too long. The singer sold the property for $14 million in late 2021.
English-style Montecito mansion
A few months following the purchase of her Hollywood Hills abode, Grande snapped up a $6.8 million Tudor-style home in the celeb-favorite town of Montecito, California. She purchased the unique pad, known as Porter House, from Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi, who had renovated and then flipped it. The one-of-a-kind historic structure consisted of two separate barns originally built in Surrey, England, in the 1700s, carefully dismantled and then reconstructed in California. The two parts were joined by an orangery—a glass-enclosed space akin to a greenhouse—with each wing of the house boasting wood-beam ceilings, exposed brick fireplaces, and antique casement windows. Around the same time, Grande began dating real estate agent Dalton Gomez. In May 2021, Grande and Gomez got married at the house in an intimate surprise ceremony; a photo the singer shared with fans showed the white walls and exposed beams as a picturesque backdrop to their nuptials. The Grammy winner quietly flipped the property back onto the market in 2022 and sold it in an off-market deal for $9.1 million that fall.
Bird Streets residence
In 2021, Grande expanded her West Coast holdings with the purchase of an $8.9 million cottage in the coveted Bird Streets neighborhood of LA’s Hollywood Hills. The midcentury home was built in 1946 and was decidedly smaller than Grande’s other pads, measuring 1,590 square feet. At the time of purchase, the residence had been recently renovated in a rustic-contemporary style. The property included a two-car garage and a large paved patio with an angular swimming pool. It was initially rumored that Grande and Gomez might raze the existing three-bedroom, two-bathroom structure to build a new marital home together, but the pair divorced in 2023 and the house remained untouched. In early 2024, Grande sold the property to Bad Bunny at a slight loss, for $8.3 million.
Second Hollywood Hills house
One year after buying the Bird Streets pad, Grande picked up a Hollywood Hills property that previously belonged to Cameron Diaz. (Fun fact: Diaz and her husband, Benji Madden, still own the house next door.) The singer paid $4.9 million for the relatively modest two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom dwelling, which is reportedly a single-story midcentury-style house. Details about the pad are scant, given that Grande picked it up in an off-market deal, but Diaz reportedly bought the property with plans to tear down the existing house and build a larger structure in its place. Diaz never actually lived in the home, and it remains to be seen whether Grande herself will embark on any major renovations at the property. This is currently her primary home.
London rental
When Wicked began filming in London in 2022, Grande reportedly rented a mega-mansion in an ultra-private North London neighborhood. The luxe abode reportedly featured top-of-the-line appliances in the kitchen and high-end furniture, with famous neighbors in the area including Liam Gallagher and Ricky Gervais. Following her split from Gomez, she was spotted spending time exploring the city, shopping with Wicked costar Cynthia Erivo, and cheering on the tennis pros at Wimbledon in July 2023. Now that filming has wrapped, however, it’s likely that Grande has returned Stateside.
This story originally featured on architecturaldigest.com
