Selena Gomez has lived much of her life in the spotlight, having burst onto the scene with a role on Barney & Friends at the tender age of 10. Since then she’s made a name for herself as an actor, singer, entrepreneur, and advocate. The Texas native is also currently the most followed woman on Instagram, with more than 400 million fans hanging onto her every word and action. The pressure—as she’s spoken about in interviews and her Apple TV+ documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me—can be a lot. In recent years, the superstar had to cancel her 2016 Revival Tour, was diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder, suffered through a lupus flare-up, and underwent a kidney transplant; she’s learned to prioritize mental health and wellness as a result. For instance, she recently chose to reside in New York City, where she lays low and keeps to herself. “I can now [separate myself from that fame person],” she said in an interview last fall. “Thank God I can…. I love living with the older generation, so I’m on the Upper East Side. It’s very nice for that. I’m currently in a little cave and it’s so lovely and private.”
Gomez’s NYC refuge is so private, in fact, that we couldn’t find any publicly available information about it. Below, we’ve rounded up some of the other places that Gomez has called home over the years, each marking a different era of her life.
2011
Several years after rising to fame for her leading role on Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place (and shortly after going public about her relationship with Justin Bieber), Gomez dropped $2.175 million for a starter home in Tarzana, California. The traditional-style home featured a high-ceiling entryway, a great room, a card room, a media room, and a swimming pool and spa, accessible through several sets of French doors. (There was also a separate guest room, a yoga pavilion, and a cabana bar for entertaining.) Gomez remodeled and expanded the six-bedroom, nine-bathroom home shortly after she purchased it, and by the time she sold it to Iggy Azalea for $3.45 million in 2014, it measured 6,630 square feet. Fun fact: According to reports, Jonah Hill was the one who sold the residence to Gomez in the first place.
2014
Gomez’s next real estate purchase took her to the celeb-favorite city of Calabasas, where she paid $3.69 million for a Mediterranean-style mansion of epic proportions. The main house featured five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and five fireplaces (including one in the primary bedroom). The opulent pad also boasted a gym, a movie theater, and an impressive underground wine cellar. An outdoor courtyard featured multiple patios and lawns, a dining cabana with a brick pizza oven, a swimming pool and spa, and an elephant-shaped topiary. The singer didn’t stay there long, though, selling the property to French Montana for $3.3 million in 2016, at a discount from the $4.5 million she initially listed it for in 2015. The rapper would go on to spend a reported $400,000 to add a recording studio in the guest house before listing the estate for double what he paid for it in early 2020.
2015
In late 2015, Gomez decided to return to her Texan roots with the purchase of a sprawling 10,016-square-foot mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. It’s unknown how much the singer paid for the five-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom pad, but it was situated close to her childhood home in Grand Prairie, which might have been a comfort given her lupus diagnosis around this time. “Every time I’ve gone home, I always go back to the places I remember,” she said in her documentary. “It’s because I don’t want to lose that part of me.” The English-style home was decked out in luxe amenities like a living room with a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace, an eight-seat movie theater with its own candy bar, and a saltwater swimming pool with a waterslide. The “Lose You to Love Me” singer put the property on the market for $3.499 million in 2016. She failed to find any buyers, and had to list and lower the price several times before finally offloading it for $2.7 million in October 2018.
2017
Shortly after making her relationship with The Weeknd official, Gomez paid $2.25 million for a bungalow in Studio City. The sweet single-story home featured a top-of-the-line security system and was situated behind 20-foot-high hedges, likely a welcome sanctuary to recoup following her kidney transplant surgery. The singer imbued the 3,188-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom pad with a neutral glam aesthetic, incorporating bright pops of color and colorful, life-affirming art pieces throughout the space. There was also a skylight-topped gourmet kitchen, a family room with a marble-topped bar, and a formal living room with a traditional fireplace. A herringbone brick flooring was a unique feature of the home. Ultimately, Gomez didn’t hang onto the property for too long, flipping it back onto the market the following year. It sold for $2.368 million in 2020.
2020
Gomez continued on her streak of celeb-pedigree homes a few months into the pandemic, picking up a $4.9 million mansion in Encino that previously belonged to legendary singer Tom Petty. The rocker and his first wife Jane Benyo custom-built the 11,483-square-foot residence in 1989, and it features six bedrooms and ten bathrooms. The skylight-topped living room boasts a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace that bursts through an upstairs balcony, finally ending at the home’s slanted ceiling. State-of-the-art amenities include an in-home recording studio, a massage room and gym, a wine cellar, and a large pool. The singer still owns this home.
