Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s houses are just as superlative as the ultra-talented pair. The power couple broke real estate records in 2023 with the purchase of a minimalist mansion in Malibu from art collectors William Bell Jr. and Maria Bell, paying nearly $200 million for the Tadao Ando–designed dwelling. As the Palisades fire continues to burn in the coastal city and in the neighboring Pacific Palisades, it seems that the mega mansion—which is the most expensive home in all of California history—is still standing. Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, was not so lucky. In an Instagram post shared on January 9, she revealed that her own Malibu bungalow had burned to the ground. “It was my favorite place, my sanctuary, my sacred Happy Place. Now it is gone,” she wrote. “God Bless all the brave men and women in our fire department who risked their lives in dangerous conditions.”
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s home—which is situated outside of the mandatory evacuation zone—is fitting for a dynamic duo whose influence is so far-reaching. In late 2024, Beyoncé reprised her voiceover role as Nala in Mufasa, Barry Jenkins’ live action prequel to 2019’s The Lion King. (The Carters’ daughter, Blue Ivy, made her big-screen voiceover debut in the film as lioness cub Kiara.) Earlier in the year, the singer thrilled fans with the release of her country-inflected album, Cowboy Carter, for which she took home her first country award at the Billboard Music Awards.
Jay-Z, meanwhile, hasn’t released new music since 2018, when he and Beyoncé teamed up for their joint studio album, Everything Is Love. But that hardly means the multihyphenate has been sitting idle—the rapper’s Roc Nation management company has an ongoing relationship with the NFL, and will bring Kendrick Lamar to the Super Bowl stage in 2025. Currently, Jay-Z is embroiled in an ongoing lawsuit filed against him by a woman who alleges he and Sean “P Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted her in 2000. Immediately after the lawsuit came to light, Jay-Z issued a statement denying the allegations.
The two music moguls share 56 Grammys between them and a combined net worth of $3 billion. Their drive and work ethic have earned them, among those other wins, birthday getaways in the South of France and at a luxury French Polynesian resort on Marlon Brando’s private island. The pair began building their own joint real estate empire in 2008, the same year that they married. In the years since, they have owned and sold homes in New York City, Miami Beach, New Orleans, the Hamptons, and Los Angeles.
Below, we’ve rounded up some of the incredible places that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have called home.
Tribeca penthouse where they tied the knot
Even though Jay-Z’s 2009 hit “Empire State of Mind” referenced a “stash spot” at 560 State Street, an address in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill neighborhood, the rapper’s first big real estate purchase was actually in Lower Manhattan. In 2004, several years before he and Beyoncé were wed, Jay-Z shelled out $6.85 million for the impressive Tribeca penthouse. The seventh-floor unit is situated in a converted 1929 brick warehouse building and measures 8,000 square feet, with an additional 3,000 square feet of outdoor terraces. Though the specifics of the penthouse are sparse, other units in the building feature 12-foot ceilings, eight-foot-high casement windows, and concrete columns throughout, so it’s likely that the couple’s Tribeca home base is similarly structured. The couple held their private 40-person wedding at the penthouse, reportedly featuring 70,000 Dendrobium orchids flown in from Thailand. It appears that Jay-Z still owns the unit.
Beyoncé’s midtown Manhattan condo
For the first few years of their relationship, Beyoncé maintained as her bachelorette pad a $5 million condo in midtown Manhattan overlooking Central Park, which she purchased in 2005. The ultramodern three-bedroom spot measured 2,699 square feet and featured floor-to-ceiling windows and 11-foot ceilings, with high-end interior finishes selected by Paris designer Jacques Grange. Beyoncé reportedly used the three-bedroom condo primarily as a spot for friends and family to stay while they were in town. The singer sold the 44th-floor corner unit for $9.95 million in 2017 shortly after the birth of the couple’s twins Sir and Rumi. It spent just 11 days on the market. Her mother, Tina Knowles, also previously owned a residence in the same building but sold it in 2011.
Jay-Z’s Time Warner Center rental
Several years after purchasing his Tribeca penthouse, Jay-Z moved uptown to the Time Warner Center in Midtown. The rapper’s new home was a 4,825-square-foot penthouse on the 76th floor of the building, which he rented for a reported $40,000 per month. The three-bedroom unit boasted floor-to-ceiling windows and a skyline view of the city and Central Park, as well as unusual features like a fish tank that hung from the ceiling. The primary bedroom featured balcony access for some sky-high outdoor space. Jay-Z reportedly rented the residence for about four years; it would later sell for a record-breaking $31 million in 2011.
