Inside Rihanna’s houses through the years, from her Barbados getaway to luxe LA rentals

Rihanna’s home life has seemingly been her focus for the last few years. The pop superstar welcomed sons RZA and Riot Rose with her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, within the past few years – and she’s just announced her third pregnancy on the 2025 Met Gala red carpet, as fans have been patiently waiting for new music. She has teased the release of her long-awaited album, R9, for years now, recently sharing with Extra that she’s taking her time with the project because it needs to be “amazing.” “It has to be,” she said. “That is the only reason it’s not out yet.… There should be a show of growth, right?”

In the years since her last big release—her 2016 album, Anti—Rihanna has kept busy buying and selling properties. She is arguably now a real estate aficionado, having accumulated an impressive portfolio of houses in Los Angeles and Barbados. In between sales and purchases, the “Lift Me Up” singer has also rented several enviable properties over the years, spanning Manhattan, the Hamptons, and London. Here, we’ve rounded up all of the mansions, penthouses, villas, and condos, our favourite Barbadian beauty has called home over the years.

Beverly Hills Post Office mansion

Rihanna first burst onto the scene as the 16-year-old prodigy of Jay-Z’s Def Jam Recordings in 2005. Four years later, in 2009, she purchased a $6.9 million mansion in the coveted Beverly Hills Post Office area of Los Angeles. She sold the 8,520-square-foot, three-story contemporary for $5.03 million in 2011 (at the time, the listing described the home as a “major fixer” with extensive moisture and water damage). The property measured three quarters of an acre, with a main house featuring eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. There was also a picturesque swimming pool out back. The place was eventually fixed up, and in 2016, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen snapped it up for $14.1 million.

Pacific Palisades rental

In 2012, after selling her Beverly Hills Post Office home, Rihanna tried her luck with a stunning bluff-top Pacific Palisades mansion, which she rented for $65,000 a month. The 10,970-square-foot behemoth boasted 14-foot ceilings, a 6,000-square-foot garden, a rooftop sun deck, and seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. One thing she didn’t bargain for, however, was the number of stalkers who descended upon her home. According to Curbed, after multiple trespassers were spotted on the property within the first few months of her time there, Rihanna opted to relocate. The house later sold for $11.175 million in 2016.

Manhattan penthouse

As Rihanna’s music career continued to soar, she expanded her sights to the East Coast, locking in a $50,000-a-month penthouse in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighbourhood in 2013. Spanning 7,000 square feet, with a 2,400-square-foot wraparound terrace, the chic condo occupied the two top floors of a luxury apartment complex, with a floating staircase connecting the two levels. The home featured four bedrooms and three full bathrooms, with 14-foot ceilings and views of the Empire State Building. Rihanna moved out in 2017.

Barbados beachside villa

Also in 2013, Rihanna decided to lay down roots in her native Barbados with the purchase of a $22 million beachside villa at One Sandy Lane, one of eight adjacent condos just down the street from the famous Sandy Lane Hotel. The impressive 10,000-square-foot pad features five en suite bedrooms, each with its own private terrace and dressing room, as well as a huge pool, a private gym, and a 24-hour concierge. The singer still owns this property, which is not too far from the five-bedroom home she bought for her mother in 2012.

Sunset Strip “Fortress”

After dealing with stalkers at her Pacific Palisades home, Rihanna sought privacy behind the concrete walls of a house known as the Fortress, a stylish behemoth designed by David Lawrence Gray Architects. Perched above the Sunset Strip, the 10,000-square-foot dwelling featured 40-foot ceilings, steel beams, and walls of glass; a two-bedroom guesthouse; and a notoriously phallic-shaped swimming pool. The mansion also boasted a gourmet kitchen by Porsche Design. The singer paid $60,000 a month for the modern mansion starting in 2014, and moved out in 2017.

Century City high rises

Around the same time she started renting the Fortress, Rihanna also shelled out $5.5 million for a penthouse in the Robert A.M. Stern–designed Century Tower, where other high-profile residents included Paula Abdul, celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa, and the late Friends star Matthew Perry. The perks of the 42-story luxury condo include a 24-hour valet, a 75-foot pool, and intense anti-paparazzi security. Rihanna still owns this condo.

In 2023, Rihanna splashed out $21 million for a second penthouse unit in The Century. The singer purchased the home from Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar, who had in turn bought the pad from Perry. The four-bedroom, eight-bathroom dwelling measured an impressive 9,300 square feet and occupied an entire floor of the skyscraper. The floor plan was described as “egg-shaped” and boasted floor-to-ceiling windows for 360-degree views of the LA skyline and the Pacific Ocean. Rihanna reportedly never moved into the unit, and flipped it back onto the market for $25 million in early 2024.

Wilshire Corridor condo

Though not much is known about Rihanna’s Wilshire Corridor condo, she paid $925,000 for it in 2015, and the 2,000-square-foot unit sits on one of the upper floors of the high-rise, likely a reaction to the stalker issues she dealt with at her Pacific Palisades house. It appears that the pop star still owns the home.