A Timeline of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s Real Estate Portfolio

Early in her career, Ellen DeGeneres just wanted to be able to have a home to call her own. Little did she know that her first real estate purchase would lead to an extremely profitable passion. “The first thing I did when I made money was buy a house. And then…” she recalled to Architectural Digest in 2011, as her wife, Portia de Rossi, quipped: “Another one, and another one and another one and another one.”

That abode, a Spanish bungalow in West Hollywood, was also DeGeneres’s initial experience with flipping houses—although she has said she doesn’t consider the phrase to be an accurate description of what she does. “I fixed it up and later sold it,” the ED Ellen DeGeneres designer told the Los Angeles Times in 2015. “That was when I realized that if you make some improvements, you can make money.”

“Make money” may be a slight understatement. Just in 2020, DeGeneres and De Rossi sold a Tudor-style home to Ariana Grande for $6.75 million—after buying it for a little more than half that price. Months later, they offloaded another home for $33.3 million, and already in 2021, they sold a Beverly Hills dwelling for an estimated $47 million. Despite often making a significant profit, DeGeneres insists that cash isn’t what drives her to renovate and sell these extravagant homes. “I’ve never bought to sell. I always say, ‘This is it. I’m never moving,’” she told The New York Times in 2014. “People laugh at me now.”

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When speaking to AD about her new furniture design competition show recently, DeGeneres declined to confirm exactly how many homes she’s owned over the years, but she did say this: “The problem is I keep seeing houses I like. I see one that has potential and I love putting my own twist on it.”

Here, AD looks back at some of the couple’s most memorable real estate transactions.

2003

The same year she began hosting The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the budding real estate tycoon bought a Hollywood Hills home for $6 million. She sold the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom property to Will Ferrell three years later for $9 million.

2004

This former home of Ellen DeGeneres.

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DeGeneres and De Rossi reportedly began their romance this year, and the comedian also paid $1.275 million for a midcentury-style Hollywood Hills home nicknamed “the tree house,” due to its 2,000 square feet of outdoor living spaces. The Finding Nemo star reportedly sold the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property for $2.1 million one year later to late actor Heath Ledger. It was then owned by Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson, who put it on the market in 2019.

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