Inside Serena Williams’s $20 Million Property Portfolio

Williams’s real estate journey began in 1998, when she and her sister, Venus Williams, paid $525,000 for a one-acre homesite in Palm Beach Gardens’s gated BallenIsles Country Club. The sisters spent two years building an approximately 8,500-square-foot mansion with dual primary suites, multiple entertaining spaces, and a resort-style backyard complete with a pool, spa, and private lake views. They lived there together for nearly two decades before listing the property in 2018 and ultimately selling it in early 2019 for $2.3 million, records show.

Williams expanded her Palm Beach Gardens footprint in May 2015, purchasing a newly built, roughly 5,600-square-foot Georgian-style residence for $2.5 million. The five-bedroom home featured marble floors, a three-car garage, and a pool with an outdoor kitchen. She reportedly sold the property in early 2021 for $2.8 million.

In 2006, Williams paid a little more than $6.6 million for a Colonial Mediterranean estate in Los Angeles’s exclusive Stone Canyon neighborhood, which she owned for 13 years. Set on nearly three acres, the approximately 6,100-square-foot residence featured six bedrooms and seven bathrooms, along with a semicircular living room, marble floors, and lush grounds anchored by a pool and loggia.

She first listed the property in 2017 at $12 million before ultimately selling it in the spring of 2019 for $8.1 million. The home traded again in late 2020 for just under $8 million to Los Angeles-based interior designer Rodrigo Vargas and his partner, Frederick Storey, who relisted the estate in 2024 for $13.5 million; the listing was withdrawn a year later without a sale.

Serena and Venus jointly acquired an approximately 1,800-square-foot loft in Midtown Manhattan for $1.3 million in 2006. The two-bedroom pied-à-terre on West 38th Street, just south of Bryant Park, served as the sisters’ New York crash pad for nearly a decade before they sold it in 2015 for $2.1 million—slightly above asking and nearly double their original purchase price.

Not much is publicly known about Williams’s Paris apartment, but the tennis star, who speaks French, reportedly picked up the two-bedroom pied-à-terre in the city’s chic Seventh Arrondissement on the Left Bank in 2007. Already one of sport’s biggest names, with multiple titles, major endorsement deals, and several homes in the U.S., a Paris base made sense for Williams, giving her a place to stay during the French Open and between other European tournaments. The apartment is said to feature a fireplace and a renovated kitchen.

In 2013, Williams paid $4.1 million for an undeveloped 2.4-acre residential parcel inside the ultra-exclusive Bear’s Club, the Jack Nicklaus-designed golf community in Jupiter that counts sports legends like Michael Jordan and Rory McIlroyamong its homeowners. Though she appeared poised to build a custom retreat, the project never materialized. She listed the property for $6.5 million in 2017 and, according to records, sold it the following year for about $6 million to Patrón tequila co-founder John Paul DeJoria.

Williams paid $5.7 million in 2017 for a 14,500-square-foot Spanish Mediterranean-style waterfront estate in Jupiter’s prestigious Pennock Point neighborhood, just minutes from her sister and their parents. Envisioning something more contemporary, she enlisted Venus Williams’s interior design firm, V Starr, to oversee a three-year renovation that transformed the property into an ultra-modern family compound later featured in Architectural Digest.

Completed in 2020, the reimagined home replaces the formal living room with an art gallery and features soaring 28-foot windows, an infinity pool, a wine cellar, a private trophy room, a sauna-equipped gym, and a 620-square-foot boutique-style closet. One of its most whimsical touches is a hidden karaoke lounge called “Sérénade,” concealed behind a secret bookcase and outfitted with a small stage and velvet banquette seating.

Notably, the estate does not include a tennis court—an intentional choice by Williams, who has said she wanted to keep home and work separate.

Williams returned to Southern California in 2017, paying $6.68 million for a newly built contemporary Spanish-style residence in the guard-gated Summit Estates community in the mountains above Beverly Hills. The roughly 6,000-square-foot city-view home features five bedrooms, a gym, yoga room, wine cellar, full bar, and smart-home technology. She briefly listed the property for $7.5 million in 2021 before taking it off the market; records indicate she still owns the home.

Williams’s most recent purchase came in September 2020 when she paid $8 million for a four-acre waterfront estate from baseball star Yadier Molina. The sprawling property came with a 10,433-square-foot mansion, a guesthouse, a baseball diamond, and—perhaps surprisingly—a tennis court. She reportedly secured approval for an extensive renovation, with plans to transform the estate into a more contemporary family compound not unlike her nearby Pennock Point residence.