She may be selling out stadiums left and right, but don't let her unstoppable music career fool you. Taylor Swift is in her real estate era. And Taylor Swift's homes are just what you'd expect.
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When you're one of the biggest pop stars in the world, it's only fitting that you have an impressive real estate portfolio to match. She may have spent her childhood on an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, but the 33-year-old singer now owns a string of homes and properties across the United States worth an estimated $80 million. Calling her a mogul would be far from an understatement.
Despite those weird (and untrue) rumors that Swift would purchase homes in close proximity to any man she was linked with — "That's a thing that I apparently do," she joked in an interview with Vanity Fair. "If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out." — most of the singer's properties have been for keeps. In 2018, she sold both her midcentury bungalow (for $2.65 million) and her Cape Cod-style cottage in Beverly Hills (for $4 million), but she's held onto at least seven other properties that we know of.
From her infamous Tribeca penthouses and Nashville hideaways to a seaside mansion in Rhode Island, here's an inside look at Taylor Swift's ever-growing property empire.
The Music Row Penthouse
Similar unit in Swift's Nashville building via ZEITLIN SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
Swift's starter home was just slightly more grand than your average first-time homebuyer's. In 2009, the singer-songwriter bought a three-bedroom penthouse along Nashville's infamous Music Row for $1.99 million. She was only 20 years old.
Later that year, she snagged the one-bedroom unit just below her space, both of which she still owns. While we're sure she's made some stylistic changes since then, Swift told Vulture at the time of the purchase that she designed the penthouse herself, which she described as "whimsically girlie."
The Northumberland Estate
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In 2009, Swift gave her parents the ultimate gift: a four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom Greek Revival estate in Forest Hills, a quiet suburb outside of Nashville. Well, quiet but celebrity-filled. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are reportedly her neighbors.
The home—which is called the Northumberland Estate—cost her $2.5 million and features an outdoor pool and a guesthouse. We like to imagine Swift crashing there during her stays in Nashville, especially considering the herringbone floors and marble fireplaces found throughout the main house.
The Rhode Island Mansion
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Easily one of the singer's most recognizable homes is the 12,000-square-foot mansion she purchased in Rhode Island in 2013 for $17.75 million. It sits atop the highest point in the Watch Hill neighborhood and overlooks the Block Island Sound.
Swift has referenced the mansion's history (specifically, the rich, trouble-making heiress Rebekah West Harkness, who called it home in the 1950s) in her song "The Last Great American Dynasty." It's also been the setting for her iconic Fourth of July parties, amongst other star-studded events.
The Tribeca Penthouse
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In 2014, Swift continued her East Coast takeover by purchasing two penthouses in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood. Then she did what any person who can purchase two penthouses would do: combined them to create a massive, 10-bedroom, 10-bathroom condo.
The price alone (she purchased the pad from "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson for $20 million) would make you think this would be her primary residence. But no. Swift is apparently lending the place to actress and friend Sophie Turner while she deals with custody issues during her divorce from Joe Jonas.
The Beverly Hills Mansion
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Swift made her way back to the West Coast in 2015, purchasing a 1934 mansion in Beverly Hills in 2015 for $25 million. The seven-bedroom, 10-bathroom estate oozes with Old Hollywood charm and was previously owned by legendary film producer Samuel Goldwyn.
In addition to its massive size, it also has a two-bedroom guest apartment, a tennis court, a pool, and a pool house. After purchasing the place, Swift both restored it and turned it into a historic landmark.
The Tribeca Townhouse
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After famously renting a home on Cornelia Street while her Tribeca penthouse was being renovated, Swift bought the townhouse next door the rental in 2017. The three-floor home was built in 1915 and restored in 2011 to include a custom steel staircase, a private terrace, a limestone bathroom, a home theater, a private gym, and a steam bath.
The singer purchased it for $18 million, forever solidifying her as the queen of Tribeca.
The Tribeca Apartment
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Swift's most recent real estate dealing (that people know of) was in 2018 when she purchased yet another apartment in Tribeca. This one was a little smaller—only 3,540 square feet—but it's in the same building as her penthouse. So maybe she has plans to expand her NYC compound even more.
That purchase brought her total real estate holdings on that single Tribeca block to $47.7 million. So, we think it's safe to say she likes the neighborhood.
