Meta description: A look at where celebrities are buying homes beyond Beverly Hills, from Miami waterfront estates to Brooklyn Heights condos and London.
Beverly Hills is still one of the best-known celebrity addresses in the world, and buyers keep coming. Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco, for example, recently bought a mansion there. But the biggest celebrity purchases of the past year show a growing number of buyers looking elsewhere first. South Florida waterfront estates, a landmark condo building in Brooklyn, and homes in London have all drawn recent deals.
Miami Is Pulling Ahead on Price
In August 2025, Zillow’s home value index ranked Gables Estates, a gated waterfront community in Coral Gables, Florida, as the most expensive neighborhood in the country, ahead of Beverly Hills. The community has roughly 179 lots, and most have canal access to Biscayne Bay. The same ranking put seven of the ten priciest U.S. neighborhoods in Florida.
Celebrity buyers followed. The Weeknd closed on a waterfront estate at 41 Arvida Parkway in Gables Estates for $50 million in October 2025, after it was listed at close to $55 million. The roughly 18,000-square-foot home has eight bedrooms and 574 feet of water frontage. One community over, in Old Cutler Bay, Robbie Williams paid $40 million in July 2025 for a 19,380-square-foot home on a one-acre peninsula with a private dock. Robb Report reports that Williams is relocating his family to Florida after selling his Beverly Hills mansion to Drake for $75 million. Pharrell Williams already owned a $30 million home in Gables Estates, bought in 2020.
Palm Beach County Offers More Space
Farther north, Mark Wahlberg paid $37 million in early 2025 for a house in Stone Creek Ranch in Delray Beach, a gated community often called the area’s Billionaires’ Row. The seven-bedroom home is about 26,000 square feet on 2.5 acres and was sold with its furnishings. It has a theater, a cigar lounge and a hidden safe room in the primary suite. The house had last been listed at $45 million.
New York: Trading Up in Brooklyn Heights
Not every move means a bigger lot. In June 2026, Adam Driver bought three adjoining sixth-floor units at The Standish in Brooklyn Heights for $11.5 million, The Real Deal reported. The purchase went through a trust, which kept his name out of the public record. The combined space is about 3,500 square feet, which works out to more than $3,200 per square foot, one of the highest per-foot prices recorded in the borough.
Driver then listed the combined loft he owned nearby on Henry Street for just under $5 million. According to the New York Post, it went into contract about two weeks later. The Standish is a 12-story building from 1903 that started as a residential hotel. Matt Damon bought its penthouse, and John Krasinski and Emily Blunt bought units there in 2019.
London and the British Countryside
Some buyers looked overseas. Robb Report included George Lucas’s $52.3 million purchase in London’s St John’s Wood among the biggest celebrity deals of 2025, though few details were made public. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi moved to the UK in 2024 and bought a farmhouse in the Cotswolds.
What Is Driving the Move
Coverage of these sales points to a few common reasons. Florida has no state income tax, which draws buyers relocating from California, New York and abroad. Waterfront lots in Coral Gables can dock large yachts, a rarity even in South Florida. Gated communities and trust ownership add privacy.
The wealth data points the same way. The Henley & Partners World’s Wealthiest Cities Report for 2025 found that West Palm Beach saw a 112% increase in millionaire growth over the last decade and Miami saw 94%. Both grew faster than New York City.
Readers who want more property-level coverage of celebrity purchases can find it in GlamHomeGuide’s celebrity real estate section.
Conclusion
No single address has replaced Beverly Hills. What has changed is how many places compete with it. A buyer who wants deep-water docking looks at Coral Gables, one who wants acreage and privacy looks at Delray Beach, and one who wants city life with a full-service building looks at Brooklyn Heights. Celebrity purchases in 2026 spread across more markets than they did a decade ago, and the reasons are mostly practical: taxes, privacy and space.
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