Most stars announce a new house with a photo shoot. Zendaya did the opposite. She quietly bought a ranch in Encino, told almost nobody, and let the papers find out later. That is very her. The main Zendaya house sits behind gates at the end of a long driveway, wrapped in almost four acres of grass and old oak trees. No gold gates with her initials. No fountain the size of a car. Just space, shade, and quiet.
She paid about $4 million for it in 2019. For Los Angeles, that is almost modest. For Zendaya, it fits. This is a star who grew up in Oakland, started on the Disney Channel at 13, and still treats fame like a job, not a personality. In this tour we look at the Encino ranch up close, then at the first home she bought at just 20, her Brooklyn condo, and the London house she shares with Tom Holland. It is the latest stop on our tour of celebrity homes, and it might be the most private one yet.
Zendaya’s Homes, by the Numbers
Quick version first, for anyone in a hurry.
Location: Encino, Los Angeles, California
Price paid: about $4 million in 2019
Land: about 3.7 acres, gated and very private
Main house: more than 5,000 square feet, built in 1939
Rooms: 6 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms
Extras: a two-bedroom guest house, a pool with a built-in spa, and private hiking trails
Style: classic California ranch
And one fun detail before we go in. At one point she listed this ranch for rent at about $12,900 a month. Even her side income has good taste.
Who Is Zendaya? From Oakland Kid to Hollywood’s Quiet Power
Before the houses, the story. Zendaya was born in Oakland in 1996 and started acting as a child, first in theater, then on the Disney Channel at 13. Shake It Up made her a teen star. Euphoria made her an Emmy winner, twice. The Spider-Man films and Dune made her a global name. Through all of it, she kept the same calm style she brings to her homes. Her full career story is long, and it is all recorded on her Wikipedia page.
| Full Name | Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman |
| Born | September 1, 1996 |
| Age | 30 years old |
| Birthplace | Oakland, California, USA |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Occupation | Actress, singer and producer |
| Years Active | 2009 to present |
| Known For | Euphoria, the Spider-Man films, Dune and Challengers |
| Partner | Tom Holland |
| Net Worth | About $30 million |
Why Encino? The Answer Says a Lot About Her
Encino is not where stars go to be seen. It is where they go to disappear a little. The streets are wide. The trees are old. Nobody camps on these corners with a camera, because there is nothing to photograph except hedges and mailboxes.
For someone whose face sits on billboards in forty countries, that calm is worth more than any view. Zendaya has said, in different words across many interviews, that home is where she gets to be boring. Sleep in. Cook badly. Walk the dog. The Encino ranch hands her exactly that life, with the film studios still close enough for work.
There is a practical side too. Land. Almost four acres of it, in the middle of Los Angeles. A house can always be rebuilt. Land like this does not get made anymore.
The setup helps as well. The ranch hides at the end of a long driveway, behind gates, on a circular motor court where cars turn and leave without fuss. Guests arrive, the gate closes, and the city vanishes. Plenty of famous names have picked Encino for the same reason over the years. It is close to everything and somehow feels far from all of it.
If this quiet style of stardom appeals to you, tour the Evan Peters house and the Theo James house next. Both actors picked privacy over show in much the same way.
Inside the Ranch: Old Bones, Warm Rooms
The Zendaya house was built in 1939, and it has kept its old soul through every remodel since. Hardwood floors run through the main rooms. The walls are white and plain, in the good way. Sunlight does most of the decorating here.
The living room centers on a wide arched fireplace, the kind you actually sit next to, not just take photos of. There are fireplaces in several rooms, which sounds like a funny luxury in sunny California. But on a cold January night, nobody is laughing. They are all lit.
The kitchen is big and open, with granite counters and wide doors that swing out to the back patio. Cooking here means fresh air and the smell of the garden while you work. And the main bedroom has its own built-in soaking tub. Small thing. Big difference after a fourteen-hour day on set.
Nothing inside screams for attention. That seems deliberate. The bathrooms lean on clean marble and simple lines. The bedrooms are soft colors and blackout curtains, built for sleep, not for show. Friends who design homes for a living call this quiet luxury. The rest of us just call it a place you can exhale in.
A Backyard With Its Own Hiking Trails
Step outside and the ranch just keeps going. Lawns roll out in every direction. The pool sits on a stone patio with a spa tucked into its edge, and the shade comes from oaks that were already old before Zendaya was born.
Then comes the detail that makes everyone grin. The property has private hiking trails. Actual trails. On her own land. Inside Los Angeles. Morning walk with the dog? She basically has a small national park out there.
A separate guest house with two bedrooms handles the visitors, so friends and family get their own space and their own coffee maker. Everyone keeps their peace. Smart layout, honestly.
Evenings are probably the best part. The lawns cool down, the pool light comes on, and the whole place smells like warm grass and oak trees. No street noise. No tour buses slowing down outside. Just a big old ranch doing the job it was built for in 1939: giving a family room to breathe.
Before the Ranch, a Staircase She Called Cinderella
Rewind to 2016. Zendaya was 20, fresh off her Disney years, and she bought her first home in Northridge for $1.4 million. Most 20-year-olds are arguing with landlords. She was signing property papers.
The Northridge house is Mediterranean style, about 4,155 square feet, with five bedrooms and five bathrooms, a chef’s kitchen with marble counters, and a pool and spa out back. But the part she talked about most was the entry. A sweeping curved staircase, like something out of a film. She called it her Cinderella moment. And honestly? You can picture it. The Disney kid, standing in her own castle entry, at twenty years old.
Every Zendaya house since then tells the same story in a bigger font. Work hard. Buy land. Keep it warm. Keep it private.
Brooklyn: Her East Coast Base at Quay Tower
Fans love to argue about which Zendaya house is the main one. Encino wins on paper. But her map is bigger than one ranch.
In 2020 she added the East Coast. Her condo at Quay Tower in Brooklyn cost about $4.9 million. Three bedrooms, walls of glass, and the East River doing its best painting impression at sunset. There is even a private elevator that opens straight into her home. No lobby small talk. Just in, door closed, done.
Weekends in London: The Richmond House With Tom Holland
And then there is London. She and Tom Holland reportedly bought a house in Richmond for about 3 million pounds, close to his family. Richmond is leafy, slow, and full of people walking dogs in the rain. Which tells you pretty much everything about the life they want when the cameras are off.
Reports say the London house got a full round of updates after they bought it, the normal stuff any young couple does: fresh kitchen, calmer colors, better security. Nothing flashy. If a pattern is forming here, you are seeing it. Every home she touches ends up warmer, quieter, and harder to peek into.
Three time zones. Same taste in all of them.
Where Does Zendaya Live Now? The Question Every Fan Asks
Type her name into Google and this is the question that pops up first. So here is the clear answer. Zendaya’s main home base is the Encino ranch in Los Angeles. It is where she spends most of her downtime, close to her California roots and close to the studios.
When work takes her east, she stays at her Brooklyn condo at Quay Tower. And when she is in the UK, home is the Richmond house she shares with Tom Holland. Three homes, three time zones, one simple rule: whichever house she is in, it stays private.
It is the same quiet pattern you see in the Theo James house: privacy first, and a home that stays a home.
Questions Fans Keep Asking
Where does Zendaya live now?
Mostly the Encino ranch in Los Angeles. She also uses her Brooklyn condo and the Richmond house in London when work takes her there.
How much did her Encino ranch cost?
About $4 million, paid in 2019. For that she got roughly 3.7 acres, a main house built in 1939, a guest house, and more peace and quiet than money usually buys in LA.
Did she really buy a house at 20?
Yes. The Northridge home, $1.4 million, back in 2016. The curved staircase in the entry is the part she loved most, and she has kept the house ever since.
Can you rent her Encino ranch?
Not right now. It was offered for rent once, at about $12,900 a month, but today it is a private home. No tours, no bookings, no exceptions.
How many homes does she own in total?
Four are widely reported: the Northridge house from 2016, the Encino ranch, the Brooklyn condo, and the Richmond house in London. For someone worth around $30 million, that is a sensible list. No island. No castle. No yacht with a helipad. Yet.
The Detail That Gives Her Away
Here is the thing nobody expected. The richest detail in any Zendaya house is not marble, or glass, or the size of the land. It is how normal the wish list is. Fireplaces. A deep tub. Trails for the dog. A guest house so family can stay close without living on top of her.
Think about the timeline for a second. First house at 20. The ranch at 23. Brooklyn at 24. London soon after. While plenty of young stars were renting party houses up in the hills, she was collecting quiet streets and big gardens. That is not luck. That is a pattern, and patterns like that usually start at home. Oakland raised her, and Oakland clearly taught her well.
Plenty of stars buy houses to prove something. The Miley Cyrus house in Beverly Hills sits at the glamorous end of that scale. Zendaya seems to buy them to rest in. And maybe that is the real flex at 29: a ranch behind a gate in Encino, quiet as a library, with the whole noisy world kept politely outside the fence.
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