Selena Gomez House: The Encino Years and the Beverly Hills Move
The Selena Gomez house today is a $35 million Beverly Hills home she shares with her husband, Benny Blanco, bought in December 2024. That one sentence answers the search, and it still leaves the interesting part out, because the house most people picture when they think of her is a different one entirely.
For six years she lived in Encino, in a house first built for a rock star, and she only sold it in September 2026.
So this is really a two-house story. I will take it in that order, current home first, then the Encino years that made her a homeowner people watched.
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| Detail | Encino house | Beverly Hills house |
| Bought | March 2020, $4.895 million | December 2024, reported $35 million |
| Sold or kept | Sold 8 September 2026, $5.399 million | Current home, kept |
| Size | About 11,483 sq ft, about 0.87 acre | About 7,000 sq ft, nearly one acre, two lots |
| Rooms | Six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms in the listing | Seven bedrooms, 12 bathrooms |
| Built | 1989, for Tom Petty and Jane Benyo | 1928, Wallace Neff |
Who Is Selena Gomez, in One Short Pass
Selena Marie Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, and 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 2020 she founded Rare Beauty, a cosmetics company reported to be valued at $2 billion in 2024. That business explains the glam room downstairs in Encino better than any floor plan does.
I checked the dates in this section against Britannica’s Selena Gomez biography.
The Encino House She Lived In for Six Years
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.
A living room built for looking up
You walk in and the ceiling does the work. Skylights sit high above a double-height living room, a stone fireplace anchors one wall, and curved balconies run above, so the room feels tall without feeling empty.
A wraparound balcony hugs the fireplace, a curved couch softens the seating, and a separate family room gives the house somewhere informal to land.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One honest wrinkle: the listing says 10 bathrooms, while one listing report said 8.5, so treat the bathroom count as reported, not settled.
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.
Why She Sold, and What the Numbers Actually 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.
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, and most people, famous or not, eventually stop making it. If you enjoy tracing how celebrity homes change hands, the Jim Carrey house story has a similar shape, a famous owner, a long stay, then a clean break.
The Beverly Hills House She Moved To
The new house is smaller inside, about 7,000 square feet against Encino’s 11,483, and that is the first surprise, because the price went the other way, to a reported $35 million. Size was never the point here, history and position were, and the house has both in a way Encino never tried to match.
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.
The previous owner is reported to have been filmmaker Todd Phillips. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Small glimpses have come from Gomez herself on social media, including blue kitchen cabinets and a rose covered patio. Those two 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 married in September 2025 as reported, which makes it their marital home in the full sense, not just their latest purchase.
For a different take on a star downsizing into character, the Zendaya house story is worth a read next.
What Her Two Houses Say About How She Lives
Put the two 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 Sydney Sweeney house makes the same point from the opposite direction, a big house kept calm by giving every room a single job.
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.
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 the Beverly Hills house like inside?
It is a 1928 Wallace Neff Spanish house of about 7,000 square feet, with seven bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, a library, 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.
A Smaller House, a Bigger Life, or Just the Next One
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.
Both houses did their job at the time.
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.
