Singer Ariana Grande spends almost $30 million on two mansions in California

American singer Ariana Grande has said goodbye to renting by splashing almost $30 million on two mansions in California.

The pop star recently snapped up a four-bedroom mansion in the Hollywood Hills for $US13.7 million ($20.06 million) in an off-market deal, The Los Angeles Times reports.

The lavish three-storey home offers more than 929 square metres of living space, with four bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a minimalist kitchen and an office spaces. There’s also a gym, a wellness centre with a sauna, an outdoor infinity pool, a home theatre and a bar and 300-bottle wine cellar.

The home sits high above LA’s Sunset Strip in a neighbourhood known as the Bird Streets, and has floor-to-ceiling windows in each room and decking and balconies on each level, to make the most of the stunning views.

Grande got quite the deal, with records showing the mansion previously hit the market for $US25.5 million two years ago. More recently it was offered for $US17.495 million. Tomer Fridman, Adam Rosenfeld and Sally Forster Jones of Compass jointly held the listing.

The property, which was completed in 2018, has yet to be lived in, Dirt reports. It was developed by Woodbridge, a now-defunct investment group and Ponzi scheme fronted by a man named Robert H Shapiro. He pleaded guilty last year to orchestrating a $US1.3 billion real estate fraud scheme that stole money from thousands of US investors.

It is the second big purchase made by Grande in recent weeks, who had been renting for years – most recently based at a mansion in Beverly Hills.

The 26-year-old shelled out $US6.75 million ($9.89 million) on a Tudor-style property in Santa Barbara County, which had been flipped by television host Ellen DeGeneres and her actor wife Portia de Rossi.

The historic Porter House in Montecito was only snapped up by the prolific property flippers for $US3.607 million earlier this year and was returned to the market with an asking price of $US6.9 million after a speedy renovation.

DeGeneres and de Rossi reconfigured the former three-bedroom home, which now offers just two bedrooms and four bathrooms, Mansion Global reports. They also added a new kitchen, a study, a snack bar, and a new laundry room, as well as many light fixtures.

The property is made of two barns originally built in England in the 1700s, which were transported to the secluded coastal town and reconstructed into the private home. A glassed-in orangerie connects the two barns and living spaces of the 1986-built pad.

The property sold through Riskin Partners at Village Properties. 

The Hollywood couple are busy property enthusiasts and recently bought a string of other properties in the same town, according to Variety, including a $US27 million Balinese-style mansion, a near-$US1.9 million fixer-upper next door, and a two-bedroom apartment.

They sold a $US34 million residence, also in Montecito, in 2018, making $US7.5 million on the sale in five years, and offloaded a $US11 million property in the same area earlier that year.