Inside Taylor Swift's multimillion-dollar property portfolio

She is famous for a hit song and album You Belong With Me, and it seems Taylor Swift feels the same way about real estate, having racked up an impressive property portfolio.

The US singer-songwriter, who released her first album when she was just a teenager, has been steadily producing hit singles ever since and as her fortune has grown, Swift has splurged millions of dollars buying homes.

Swift, 32, who Forbes estimates is worth USD $550 (AUD $764) million and last month ranked her 25th on its list of highest paid entertainers for 2022, has amassed an estimated USD $80 million property portfolio, which includes homes in New York City, Nashville, Tennessee, and Beverly Hills, California.

New York City

Having sang the 2014 hit Welcome To New York, it’s no wonder Swift turned to the Big Apple to purchase real estate.

Swift is believed to have made her first foray into the New York property market in 2014, when she bought two adjacent penthouses in the hip, industrial-style Tribeca area for USD $19.95 million.

She followed this up in 2017, when she bought a 100-year-old townhouse next door for USD $18 million.

It also has four bedrooms, 4.5 baths, including a guest suite with separate entrance and a full-floor master suite. Along with a great room with fireplace and high-end kitchen, the home boasts Italian cabinetry, a theater, gym, bar, and terrace.

The following year she dropped another almost USD $10 million to buy a second floor apartment from financier Jeremy Phillips in the same building as her first home. The deal was reportedly done off market.

She also reportedly owns other apartments nearby.

Rhode Island

Before she started buying up big in New York City, Swift had already laid down digs in the US state of Rhode Island, also on the famed east coast.

In 2013, she purchased an oceanfront mansion high up on Watch Hill for a reported USD $17.75 million. The property sits on five acres of land and offers unobstructed views of the water from its elevated position.

It is said to feature eight bedrooms and eight fireplaces, and has been the scene of many a Fourth of July party with her ‘squad’ of gal pals, including model Gigi Hadid, who once featured the property on her Instagram.

Swift has said in interviews she loves to give her visitors tours of the home, complete with stories about its former owner, who along with the house itself, even inspired one of Swift’s song.

Nashville, Tennesee

Despite being born in Pennsylvania, when asked where home is Swift has said in interviews the answer is “Nashville”.

Her family moved there when she was 14 to help along her musical career, and so it’s only fitting that the place she considers home is also the location of her earlier real estate purchases.

Having started with a three-bedroom penthouse in Nashville’s Music Row, which she paid USD $1.9 million for when she was just 20, by 2011 she was hankering for something grander.

She ended up settling on a grand Greek revival estate known as Northumberland Estate, which she purchased for USD $2.5 million.

Sitting on six acres in an area known as Forest Hills, the home, built in 1934, incudes four bedrooms, five bathrooms and guest house.

Los Angeles, California

It’s hardly surprising that a star as big as Swift would wind up in LA, where she has purchased and sold a number of homes in Beverly Hills before finding one that befits her status — snapping up the Hollywood home of legendary film producer Samual Goldwyn.

In 2015, Swift purchased the seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom estate for USD $25 million.

Since she purchased the home off Goldwyn’s son, she has gained approval from the Beverly Hills Cultural Heritage Commission to have it declared a cultural landmark, and is said to have restored it to its former glory.

It’s now thought to be her only LA residence, after she offloaded two other homes in 2018 — a Cape Cod-style cottage which she sold for $4 million and a smaller home she used as a guesthouse for $2.65 million.

And all by the age of 32. Something tells us the ‘love story’ between Swift and property is only going to get deeper.