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The Selena Gomez house she lives in today is a $35 million Beverly Hills mansion she bought with her husband, Benny Blanco, in December 2024.
That is the short answer, and it is also the end of a longer story, because the house most people picture when they think of her is a different one, and she only sold it two months ago.
For six years she lived in Encino, in a house first built for a rock star, and she filmed a cooking show in its kitchen. Then she married, moved, and let the old house go.
This is the story in that order, the home she lives in now, then the Encino years, then the other homes in her life.
Our Celebrity Homes section has the rest of the series in one place.
Who Is Selena Gomez?
Selena Marie Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, and she grew up in the Dallas area before television changed her life early. She started as a child actress, then became a teen star as Alex Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place, which ran from 2007 to 2012.
Music followed, then producing. In 2021 she returned to television in Only Murders in the Building, a role that kept her in front of adult audiences week after week.
In September 2020 she founded Rare Beauty, a cosmetics company. The business is the reason her name now sits in wealth rankings as well as in music charts, and it is also the reason the glam room downstairs in Encino made sense.
I checked the dates in this section against Britannica’s Selena Gomez page.
| Born | 22 July 1992 |
| Birthplace | Grand Prairie, Texas, USA |
| Occupation | Singer, actress, producer and businesswoman |
| Known for | Wizards of Waverly Place, Only Murders in the Building, Rare Beauty |
| Spouse | Benny Blanco, married 27 September 2025 |
| Business | Rare Beauty, founded September 2020 |
| Net worth | Reported $700 million to $1.3 billion (Bloomberg and Forbes disagree) |
| Current home | Beverly Hills, California (bought December 2024) |
| Former home | Encino, California (2020 to 2026) |
| Years active | 2002 to present |
Where Does Selena Gomez Live?
In Beverly Hills, in a house with nearly a century of history behind it. She and Blanco bought it off market in December 2024, in the same week they got engaged, and they married in September 2025, so it is their marital home in the full sense.
The price was a reported $35 million. The house is smaller inside than Encino, about 7,000 square feet against about 11,483, and that is the first surprise, because the price went the other way. Size was never the point here. History and position were.
A 1928 house with a Hollywood past
It was designed in 1928 by Wallace Neff, in a Spanish style, and it sits on two lots totalling nearly one acre in the Beverly Hills Flats. Neff is one of the names that defines old Beverly Hills, and this house is a good example of why.
The previous owner is reported to have been filmmaker Todd Phillips, best known for Joker. The property was last sold before the couple for $30.7 million in August 2021, which puts the $35 million figure in context without making it sound like a bargain, because it was not one.
Records seen by Realtor.com put the couple’s purchase on December 4, 2024. That date matters, because one report in the same outlet says February 2025, and the records date is the one to trust.
Inside the Beverly Hills mansion
Inside, what is reported is a wood panelled library with a spiral staircase, a primary suite upstairs with a covered terrace, and a tile bathroom with a freestanding tub and a glass shower. Seven bedrooms and 12 bathrooms sit across about 7,000 square feet.
Outside the main house, two guesthouses do the heavy lifting, one with a gym and a theatre, the other with a studio, and a glass greenhouse solarium sits in the grounds with the pool and spa. The theatre is reported to be Dolby certified, which is the kind of detail that tells you the previous owner cared about film.
I am deliberately not inventing a room-by-room tour here, because the public record for this house is thinner than for Encino, and a guessed interior would be worse than an honest short section.
The glimpses she has shared
Small glimpses have come from Gomez herself on social media, including blue kitchen cabinets, colourful shelving and a rose covered patio. Those details tell you more about the house than any amenity list.
This is a lived-in old house, not a new build dressed as one. The couple’s choice to buy a 1928 house, and to keep its character, says more about how they want to live than the price ever could.
For a different take on a star choosing character over size, the Danny DeVito house story is worth a read next.
Selena Gomez House: The Encino Home She Sold for $5.4 Million
Six years in Encino made the Selena Gomez house a familiar place to millions of viewers, and that familiarity is the reason the sale made news. The kitchen was on television. The pool was on Instagram. The house felt known, even to people who had never been near it.
Encino sits in the San Fernando Valley, and the Rancho enclave there is the quiet, gated kind of neighbourhood where a long private drive does most of the talking. Gomez bought the house in March 2020 for $4.895 million, a rock star’s big house, bought just as the world shut down.
It was custom built in 1989 for Tom Petty and his first wife, Jane Benyo, and Petty owned it until 2017. That history is the first thing any buyer would have felt on a viewing, because the house was built around music, with rooms for playing and recording.
The house Tom Petty built
The house runs to about 11,483 square feet on about 0.87 acre, across three levels, with six bedrooms.
The bathroom count is one of those details worth stating plainly, because sources disagree. The listing says 10 bathrooms. One listing report says 8.5. I use the listing figure and note the conflict, rather than picking one and hiding the other.
Two primary suites sit on different levels, so owners and guests can have real separation, and every bedroom has its own bathroom, according to the listing. The front entry opens straight into the living room, and the ceilings soar from there.
The kitchen everyone recognised
Then there is the kitchen, and honestly, this is the room that made the house famous. Gomez filmed the first three seasons of Selena + Chef there, so millions of viewers already knew the white brick around the range, the copper trim, the exposed beams and the marble island.
It works because it is not a showroom. The island is big enough for a camera crew and a chopping board, and the brick stove gives it a centre. A Viking range sits in that brick surround, and the room has the kind of light that makes a cooking show look easy.
Downstairs, the work rooms
The lower level is where the house stops being a family home and starts being a workplace. There is a wine cellar, a gym, a massage room, a theatre, a creative workspace, a second kitchen and a vocal booth.
That booth is the detail I keep coming back to, because it is the clearest trace of Petty left in the house. It is thought to have been part of his original recording studio, and Gomez is reported to have used it to write and record.
Gomez renovated the glam room during her ownership, which makes sense for the founder of a beauty company. The listing photographs showed floral wallpaper there after her personal things had gone. A home theatre sits downstairs, photographed with a video of Gomez performing on its screen, the kind of staging only a celebrity listing gets.
Outside: water, shade and somewhere to sit
The backyard is the part I would have spent the most time in, and I say that as someone who distrusts most luxury garden photographs. A freeform pool and spa sit at the end of a stream, fed by a cascading rock waterfall, so the water moves through the garden instead of sitting still in a rectangle.
A cabana with a bar, a fire pit and an alfresco dining area finish the picture. The grounds run to about 0.87 acre, which is enough for the planting to do the privacy work. The listing called it a private celebrity compound, and for once the phrase fits.
Why she sold, and what the numbers say
She listed the Encino house in May 2026 for $6.495 million, and it sold on 8 September 2026 for $5.399 million. That is about $1.1 million below asking and about $504,000 above what she paid in 2020.
That second figure needs a caveat every time, because it is before commissions, taxes, maintenance and renovation money. A sale price is not a profit, and no honest article should present it as one.
The reason for selling is simpler than the numbers. By then she and Blanco had already bought their Beverly Hills home, in December 2024, around the time of their engagement, so Encino had become a second house, not a home base. Keeping a house that size running for sentiment is a choice most people eventually stop making.
The sale was handled by Branden and Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates. The buyer has not been publicly identified. For the full sale record, Realtor.com covered the Encino sale in detail.
The Other Homes in Her Life
The Beverly Hills mansion is the main home, but her story has a few more addresses in it, and they fill in the picture of how she has lived.
In 2017 she bought a Woodland Hills home for $1.8 million. It is a 3,500 square foot house on half an acre, built in 1949, with four bedrooms and four bathrooms, and a chef’s kitchen with Wolf appliances.
Her mother, Mandy, and her stepfather, Brian Teefey, live there. That is the quietest home in her portfolio, and it may be the most telling, because she bought it for family, not for herself.
Earlier still, she lived in a single-storey bungalow in Studio City while recovering from her kidney transplant. No price or date is reliably reported for that home, so I state no price here. What matters is the pattern, a small, private house at a hard time, then bigger houses as her career and her business grew.
Blanco brings his own homes to the marriage. He owns a Hollywood Hills estate he bought for $9.9 million, and he lost a Malibu beach cottage in the Palisades Fire in early 2025.
The couple’s property footprint is now concentrated in the Beverly Hills estate, with the Encino sale banking roughly $500,000 in appreciation plus six years of use, before costs.
For another singer whose homes tell a similar story of growth, the Beyonce house and the Ariana Grande house are both worth a read.
What Her House Moves Teach About Buying and Selling
Put the houses side by side and a pattern shows up that has nothing to do with money. Encino gave her space to work, a kitchen for a television show, a vocal booth, a gym, a glam room, rooms that each did one job properly.
Beverly Hills gives her something else, a smaller main house with separate buildings for work and guests, so home and work stop sharing a hallway. That is a lesson any reader can borrow without a $35 million budget, because the idea is separation, not square footage.
A spare room that only does one job, a corner that is only for guests, a kitchen that people can stand in, those are the moves that made both houses work. The Drake house makes the same point from the opposite direction, a big house kept calm by giving every room a single job.
There is a second lesson in the sale maths. She sold below asking and still came out ahead of her purchase price, before costs. That is normal in real life, and it is a healthier way to read a celebrity sale than the headline number alone.
Asking price is a wish. Sale price is a fact. Profit is a third number, and it is always smaller than the sale price.
And there is a third lesson, about buying history. Encino was built for a rock star. Beverly Hills was built by Wallace Neff in 1928. Both houses had a past before she arrived, and she chose houses with a past, not new builds.
Old houses cost more to keep, and they give back more in character. That trade is worth making only if you actually live in the character, and she does.
For a star who made the opposite trade, buying new and big, the Brad Pitt house story shows what that choice looks like.
Questions People Keep Asking
Where does Selena Gomez live now?
In Beverly Hills, in the $35 million house she bought with Benny Blanco in December 2024. That is her current home as reported, and the Encino house is no longer hers.
Did Selena Gomez sell her Encino house?
Yes. She listed it in May 2026 for $6.495 million and it sold on 8 September 2026 for $5.399 million, after about six years of ownership.
How much did Selena Gomez sell the Encino house for?
The sale price was $5.399 million, about $1.1 million below the $6.495 million asking price and about $504,000 above the $4.895 million she paid in 2020, before commissions, taxes, maintenance and renovation costs.
Who built the Encino house?
It was custom built in 1989 for Tom Petty and his first wife, Jane Benyo. Petty owned it until 2017, and the vocal booth downstairs is the clearest trace of that history.
What is inside the Beverly Hills house?
It is a 1928 Wallace Neff Spanish house of about 7,000 square feet, with seven bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, a library with a spiral staircase, two guesthouses, a theatre, a studio, a gym and a greenhouse. Public interior detail is limited, so this article reports what outlets have verified rather than filling the gaps.
Does Selena Gomez own other homes?
Yes. She owns a $1.8 million Woodland Hills home bought in 2017, where her mother and stepfather live, and she previously lived in a Studio City bungalow. Her husband, Benny Blanco, owns a Hollywood Hills estate bought for $9.9 million.
What is Rare Beauty worth?
Estimates disagree widely. Forbes values Rare Beauty at about $1.3 billion, while Fortune reported estimates near $2.7 billion in October 2025, and Bloomberg reported a roughly $2 billion valuation during a paused sale process in 2024.
Gomez’s net worth is reported between $700 million and $1.3 billion depending on which valuation is used. No outside buyer has ever bought a share, so every figure is an estimate, not a transacted price.
A Smaller House, a Fuller Life
It is tempting to read the move as a step up, from a $5 million house to a $35 million one, and that reading misses the point.
She traded size for history, a big Valley house built for a rock star for a smaller, older house in Beverly Hills that she shares with her husband, and the trade only makes sense if you stop counting square feet.
The Selena Gomez house story, for now, ends in Beverly Hills. Both houses did their job. Encino gave her a kitchen the public loved and rooms to work in. Beverly Hills gives her a home built around a marriage, and the next chapter will be judged by how she lives in it, not by what it sold for.
For another recent celebrity move on this site, the Margot Robbie house and the Travis Kelce house both show the same pattern, a famous owner, a long stay, then a clean break.
