Kylie Jenner, Taylor Swift and 3 Other Celebrity Real Estate Investors

WSJ Magazine 2023 Innovator Awards
Kylie Jenner attends the WSJ Magazine 2023 Innovator Awards at Museum of Modern Art on November 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

In addition to their careers in Hollywood, some celebrities are known for building massive wealth through investing in real estate. Some buy homes and flip them to make a big profit. Some rent out their properties.

The Celebrity Investments Index created a list of top celebrities with impressive real estate portfolios. Here are five who made the list.

Kylie Jenner

At the age of 21, Kylie became the world's youngest self-made billionaire, mostly due to her cosmetics brand Kylie Cosmetics. However, Kylie has also been investing in numerous real estate properties over the past years.

In 2017, she sold a Calabasas mansion for $3.15 million, which she bought for $2.5 million two years earlier. In the same year, she sold a house in Hidden Hills for $5.28 million. She bought the house for $4.5 million in 2016.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo owns a massive portfolio of multimillion-dollar real estate properties, including the Blackadore Caye, a 104-acre island off the coast of Belize that he bought for $1.75 million in 2015. He later commissioned architect Jason McLennon to design a 68-villa eco-resort on the island.

Ellen Degeneres

Popular talk show host Ellen has spent at least $145 million buying properties to flip and sell. In 2017, for instance, the "Finding Dory" star bought an estate in California for $7.2 million. Ellen sold it half a year later for a whopping $11 million.

In 2014, Ellen also bought a $2 million horse ranch that was sold for $15 million on the same year.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé

Hollywood's power couple have real estate portfolios spanning the continent-from the Hamptons on the East Coast to Los Angeles on the West Coast. Their properties include an $88 million 30,000-square-foot palace in Bel Air and a $26 million seven-bedroom mansion in East Hampton.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift became a multimillion-dollar real estate owner at the age of 20, just four years after she debuted her first album. Today, she is estimated to have $80 million in real estate, the most expensive of which is in TriBeCa, New York, where she bought an entire block for nearly $50 million.

In 2018, the "Cruel Summer" singer sold one of her homes in Beverly Hills for $2.65 million. She sold the 2,950-square-foot residence six years after she bought it for $1.775 million.

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