With sold-out shows around the world and frequent date nights with boyfriend Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift is seemingly always on the move. But where does Taylor Swift live when she has some down time? The pop megastar owns homes on both coasts, as well as in Nashville, where her career first began. She also maintains a grand estate on Watch Hill in Rhode Island, made famous by her star-studded Fourth of July parties.
Last year, the “Fortnight” singer became the fourth musician officially declared a billionaire by Forbes, thanks in part to the massive success of the Eras Tour. The worldwide extravaganza, which kicked off March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and will conclude on December 8, 2024, in Vancouver, was the first concert tour to rake in $1 billion, according to Pollstar—and this benchmark was surpassed a year ago. According to an estimate in The Washington Post, Swift could personally make around $4.1 billion by the time the tour wraps.
The “Taylor effect” extended to just about every place that the tour stopped too, with Swift reportedly impacting home prices in various cities. For all of her jet-setting and globe-trotting, though, Swift told Time magazine that her recuperation time is equally important. “I do not leave my bed except to get food and take it back to my bed and eat it there,” she said. “I can barely speak because I’ve been singing for three shows straight. Every time I take a step my feet go crunch, crunch, crunch from dancing in heels.”
Below, Architectural Digest recaps where the Pennsylvania-born singer has lived throughout her meteoric rise to fame.
Penthouse condo in Nashville
Swift purchased her first home in 2009, when she was just 20 years old, for $1.99 million. The luxury penthouse condo measured 3,240-square-foot and featured three bedrooms, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Nashville’s Music Row. Swift shared in an interview with Vulture that she did the interior design herself, with an aesthetic that was described as “whimsically girlie.” That same year, she also bought an additional one-bedroom unit right below hers for an undisclosed amount. Building amenities include an Olympic-size heated pool, private garage, and fitness center. The singer still owns this property.
Cape Cod-style cottage in Beverly Hills
Following the success of her 2010 album Speak Now, the “Wildest Dreams” singer made her move to Los Angeles. And in a possible reflection of her country-to-pop transition, she purchased a Cape Cod–style cottage in Beverly Hills for $3.55 million in 2011. The 2,800-square-foot home was situated on nearly an acre and a half of land and featured three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms. Inside, the house boasted a large fireplace and French doors throughout. The property also included a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse, as well as a tennis court. Swift sold the residence just before embarking on her Reputation tour in May 2018 in an off-market $4 million deal.
Greek Revival-style Nashville mansion
In 2011, the artist also picked up another home in Nashville for $2.5 million, this time in the quiet Forest Hills suburb, where celebrity neighbors include Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. The Greek Revival–style estate features four bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, as well as a guest house adjacent to an outdoor pool. The singer reportedly purchased the six-acre property for her parents, who have lived in Nashville since she was 14, and she still owns this property. Swift’s mother, Andrea, reportedly lives here.
Midcentury bungalow in Beverly Hills
Swift next expanded her portfolio with the purchase of a $1.78 million single-story midcentury-style Beverly Hills bungalow in 2012. The new addition to her portfolio marked a shift in Swift’s architectural aesthetic: The sleek, retro home featured built-in shelving, skylights, high ceilings, and entire walls of floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors. The stunning pad also featured a 1,000-bottle climate-controlled wine cellar, a gourmet kitchen, a private courtyard and garden, and a pool. The Los Angeles Times reported that the singer bought the house primarily as a place to host guests, so it’s unclear whether she ever lived there herself. Swift ultimately sold the dwelling for $2.65 million toward the end of 2018.
Rhode Island home
Swift’s infamous Fourth of July parties with her squad were often hosted at her stunning seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom Rhode Island home on Watch Hill, overlooking the Block Island Sound and Montauk Point, and it’s easy to see why. The singer purchased the gorgeous 12,000-square-foot home for $17.75 million in 2013. In April of 2019, Swift and the house made headlines when a teenager crashed a stolen car into the front gate as he was being pursued by police. The Grammy winner’s response to the incident? “Nothing good starts in a getaway car,” she commented on an Instagram post about the news, in a nod to the lyrics from a song called “Getaway Car” on her album Reputation. In 2020, the singer referenced the storied history of the property and its previous owner, socialite Rebekah Harkness, in a song called “The Last Great American Dynasty” on her album Folklore.
Tribeca penthouses
The following year, in 2014, Swift doubled down on her holdings on the East Coast with the purchase of two penthouses on a cobblestone street in NYC’s tony Tribeca neighborhood, combining them to create one large 8,309-square-foot condo with 10 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Swift paid $20 million for the abode, which was previously owned by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. (The “Down Bad” singer moved into a rental apartment in the West Village while construction was underway—more on that below.) Her impressive penthouse features 12-foot beamed ceilings, exposed brick, a stylish marble kitchen, and multiple wraparound terraces that add an extra 6,000 square feet to the already-spacious duplex. Swift still owns this property.
Georgian Revival estate
The singer headed back toward the West Coast the following year, splashing out $25 million for a 10,982-square-foot landmarked mansion in Beverly Hills. The luxurious Georgian Revival estate has seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms and previously belonged to Hollywood legend Samuel Goldwyn. The property also boasts a two-room guest apartment on the premises, as well as a tennis court, pool, and pool house. In 2017, the superstar reportedly added a six-and-a-half-foot-high cinder block wall around the premises of the home, as well as a seven-foot-high retaining wall by the tennis court in order to ensure the utmost privacy. The following year, in 2018, Swift applied for and won landmark status for the estate, which ensures that the house can never be significantly changed or demolished. The star still owns this piece of Old Hollywood glamour.
Cornelia Street carriage house
While her Tribeca property was under construction in 2016, Swift famously rented a charming West Village carriage house on Cornelia Street for $39,500 a month. The four-bedroom, seven-bathroom town house spanned three stories and stretched 21-feet wide, measuring a total of roughly 5,500 square feet. The charming property included an arched wooden garage door with iron detailing, flanked by two matching side entry doors. Inside, the pad offered amenities such as a 30-foot-long indoor swimming pool, an adjacent lounge area with a fireplace, and a small garden patio. Built in 1870, the residence inspired Swift’s song “Cornelia Street” on her 2019 album Lover. Following Swift’s tenancy, it was converted into an immersive showroom space by a luxury Italian furniture brand in 2019 before being put back on the market in May 2023 for just under $18 million.
Third Tribeca dwelling
Swift next became her own neighbor when she dropped $18 million on a Tribeca town house right next door to her double penthouse in 2017. The three-floor dwelling was built in 1915 and fully renovated by architect and designer Leopoldo Rosati in 2011. All aspects of the residence are top-tier, with a custom steel staircase that leads from the first to second floor, a private terrace surrounded by a Japanese paper glass wall, and a spacious main suite on the third floor with a limestone bathroom, private wet bar, and dual dressing rooms. On the townhouse’s lower level is a home theater, gym, steam bath, and bar, as well as a guest suite with a private bathroom and separate entrance. Swift still owns this property.
Fourth Tribeca apartment
The following year, in 2018, the “Red” singer continued her buying streak in Tribeca by snapping up a $9.75 million apartment in the same building, bringing her total real-estate holdings on this one Tribeca block to an estimated $47.7 million. Swift purchased the second-floor 3,540-square-foot apartment from financier Jeremy Phillips, and it’s safe to assume that this unit shares the same industrial aesthetic as the two penthouse units she purchased in 2014, with high-beamed ceilings, cast-iron columns, and exposed brick walls. Though it’s not specified which of her Tribeca homes Swift held her Time person of the year interview in, the profile did note that the singer had outfitted the space with all of her favorite things, including a Stevie Nicks Barbie, a framed note from Paul McCartney, and tiles around the fireplace that she’d found while shopping with her mother in Paris. Swift also generously let her friend Sophie Turner stay at one of the Tribeca properties in fall 2023 amid her ongoing divorce from Joe Jonas.
London townhouse
In 2021, the singer was several years into her relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn. And though Swift largely aimed to keep her relationship under wraps, it was reported that the pair set up camp in an $8.3 million townhouse in London’s fashionable Primrose Hill neighborhood. It’s unclear whether the singer or the actor owned the property or rented it, though multiple reports pointed to the pair living there together for much of their relationship, which fizzled out at the start of 2023. It should be noted, however, that the couple also reportedly hunkered down at Alwyn’s Crouch End apartment during the early part of the pandemic. Now that Swift is head-over-heels in love with her current paramour, Travis Kelce, time will tell whether a home in Kansas City is on the horizon.
