The $200 million villa that singers Beyoncé and Jay-Z just bought is considered the biggest real estate deal in California, USA.
International media continuously reported on the real estate purchase of a famous and wealthy couple in the Hollywood entertainment industry – singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay-Z. The two just bought a villa for a huge amount of 200 million USD.
With this amount of money, the artist couple turned their newly purchased property into the most expensive villa ever sold in California, and the second most expensive in the entire United States after the apartment previously sold in New York – priced at 238 USD. million dollars.
The villa is nearly 3,000 square meters, designed by Japanese master architect Tadao Ando – who designed Kanye West’s 57.3 million USD villa and many large projects around the world. The house was built with the idea of sturdy concrete blocks placed next to each other, the total construction time took about 15 years. This mansion was once owned by art collector William Bell
Beyoncé and Jay-Z got married in 2008. Since getting married, the two have continuously bought and sold many valuable real estate. In 2017, the two bought a luxury house in Bel-Air (Los Angeles, USA) for 88 million USD. The same year, the two bought another house for $26 million in the Hamptons (Virginia, USA).
At the beginning of February 2023, Forbes magazine estimated that Beyoncé alone owned assets worth about 400 million USD thanks to her music, tours, and image copyrights. As for Jay-Z, his net worth skyrocketed to $2.5 billion at the beginning of the year. The male rapper’s wealth increased significantly after the transfer of shares in the Tidal streaming platform and the Armand de Brignac champagne company.
