After years of Wicked hype, it almost feels as if our designated Glinda has become an actual and permanent denizen of Oz. But where does Ariana Grande live in real life these days? Let’s unpack her real estate journey.
The actor and singer grew up in Florida and moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to pursue her career in showbiz, starring in Nickelodeon’s Victorious from 2010 until 2013, and its spin-off, Sam & Cat, from 2013 until 2014. During this period, Grande shuffled through a series of rental homes around Los Angeles before putting down roots in New York City, where she bought her first home in 2018, during her much-publicized relationship with comedian Pete Davidson. (Were we ever so young?) She sold that residence in 2021. Since then, the “We Can’t Be Friends” singer has mainly resided on the West Coast, swapping glamorous properties with other starry residents of La La Land, including Ellen DeGeneres, Bad Bunny, and Cameron Diaz, who sold Grande her current Hollywood Hills pad.
Read on to learn more about the Wicked: For Good star’s residences over the years.
French manor-style rental
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 privately secured behind gates 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 five-bedroom home, which was built in 2007, also boasted coffered ceilings, wood and stone floors, and seven fireplaces with hand-carved mantels. The half-acre plot featured a fireside lounge, lush lawns, and fountains, and sat next door to Bob Hope’s former estate.
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 fireplace-warmed study, a gourmet kitchen, a wood-paneled sunroom, and a generously sized pool and spa. The sunken living room was crowned by 12-foot-tall coffered and stenciled wood ceilings. 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
In 2015, Grande 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, six bathrooms, and a swimming pool overlooking the city skyline. The marble interiors of the home showed up frequently on Grande’s social media feeds (fans will 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
In June 2020, Grande bought a brand new ultra modern, three-story property with floor-to-ceiling windows in the Hollywood Hills. 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 place had 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. 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. 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 holdings with the purchase of an $8.9 million cottage in the coveted Bird Streets neighborhood of LA’s Hollywood Hills. The dwelling, dating to 1946, was decidedly smaller than Grande’s other pads, measuring 1,590 square feet. 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 said “Thank U, Next” to the property, selling it to Bad Bunny at a slight loss, for $8.3 million.
Second Hollywood Hills house
Grande paid actor Cameron Diaz $4.9 million for a Hollywood Hills home in 2022. The 1,800-square-foot midcentury-style house was originally built in 1950 and offered two bedrooms and three bathrooms. The half-acre plot boasted views of the Sunset Strip. Diaz reportedly bought the hillside 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.
London rental
While concurrently filming Wicked and Wicked: For Good in London from December 2022 until January 2024 (with a lengthy pause in between for the 2023 actors’ strike), Grande needed a place to stay near Sky Studios Elstree, where the musical was filmed. She reportedly opted for an apartment in a development on The Bishops Avenue—a.k.a. Billionaires’ Row—in Hampstead. (Harry Styles also maintains a residence on the ritzy stretch.) Her building, which hosts 20 high-end units, was completed in 2019 and offers its residents utmost privacy and security in addition to access to its plentiful amenities, including an indoor pool, fitness and wellness spaces, an 18-seat movie theater, a game room, private gardens, and a fully serviced bar. Grande was rumored to have resided in one of the building’s largest dwellings, which can clock in at over 10,000 square feet.
With production wrapped on the blockbuster films, it seems likely that Grande has moved on—but she commemorated her time there in true pop star fashion with a track called “Hampstead” on her album Eternal Sunshine. “I was in Hampstead when I was here, and I loved my walks on the Heath,” she explained to The Standard in March 2025. “I loved meandering around and visiting different shops and places and pubs.”
