Al Pacino's House: His Palisades House Since 1979 and the Homes He Never Owned

Al Pacino, Michael Corleone in all three Godfather films, owns a house in Palisades, New York, a Rockland County hamlet on the west bank of the Hudson, in the old river enclave called Snedens Landing. A deed in the Rockland County Clerk's land records, dated December 21, 1979, puts it in his name for $375,000. New York State's 2025 tax roll, the yearly list the town uses to value and tax every property, dates the house itself to 1971.

It is the one home in this story he has held for decades. The Beverly Hills house and the Midtown apartment he lived in for years were never his.

He still owns the Palisades house. In 2025 the title moved into a company of his own, and the paperwork for that transfer calls it a “mere change of identity,” with $10 as the price. Ten dollars is the token sum a deed names when no money changes hands: the same owner keeps the house under a different name. That is why the tax roll now lists a company as the owner.

The address and the map pin stay behind the ropes on Al Pacino's Palisades home profile, with the tax roll's figures alongside.

Not three acres

Our old page put this house on more than three private acres. The tax roll gives its parcel as a little under one acre. His former guesthouse, which he sold in 2013, sits on about 2.5 acres of its own, and the two parcels together come to about three and a half acres, which fits the old page counting both as one before the sale.

The guesthouse he sold in 2013

He signed the sale of his Palisades guesthouse on March 8, 2013, according to the state's transfer paperwork, more than two months before HuffPost reported that he had sold it to a pair of songwriters and music producers. HuffPost said it did not know why he sold.

“Guesthouse” undersells the building. The tax roll dates it to 1941, 30 years before the house he kept, and makes it the larger of the two, on the larger parcel. No later sale appears on the 2025 roll, so it has not changed hands since he sold it. Its record is on Al Pacino's former Palisades house profile.

Snedens Landing, before the actors

The enclave takes its name from the Sneden family's ferry, which crossed the Hudson here from the mid-1700s into the 1900s.

In the 1920s the sculptor Mary Lawrence Tonetti made an art colony of the 16 or so houses she owned there, renting them to artists, writers and actors, per a study published by the Hudson River Valley Institute. By 1936 she owned most of the landing. Orson Welles and John Steinbeck were among the people who lived in her houses, according to the 1990 filing that put the hamlet's historic buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, the federal list of places worth preserving.

The actors who bought in came later. NYC&G counted about 100 homes in Snedens Landing in October 2012 and named Pacino among the owners, alongside Bill Murray; it called the steep, twisty streets quiet most of the time. In October 2024 6sqft still counted Pacino among the enclave's celebrities. Scarlett Johansson's house there is covered in where Scarlett Johansson lives.

Beverly Hills: nearly 18 years as a tenant

For nearly 18 years, by the selling agent's count, his West Coast home was a house in Beverly Hills that he rented. When it came up for sale in 2025, the agent said the novelist Jackie Collins bought it in 1988, lived there first with her family and later rented it to Pacino, Fox Business reported in March 2025. He stayed on when ownership changed in 2016, the year after Collins died, and moved out a few months before that report.

The confusion over whose house it was goes back years. Profiling Collins at home in September 2015, Hello magazine described a tour bus moving on to a mansion that “belongs to Al Pacino.” By the agent's account, the mansion was hers and he was paying her rent.

How much rent is his own story. In his 2024 memoir, Sonny Boy, Pacino describes finding himself broke in his 70s and recalls paying “a ridiculous amount of money to rent some big fancy house in Beverly Hills,” as Fox Business reported. The book does not name the house. By the agent's dates, he was living in this one.

The Los Angeles County Assessor dates the house to 1922 but rates it as a 1938 building, its way of allowing for remodeling that makes a house act younger than it is; Fox Business says it has been remodeled many times. The county's 2026 roll records a change of ownership in 2025, after he left. Our old page gave this house a 2016 sale price, but that sale was between other parties. The record is on Al Pacino's former Beverly Hills rental profile.

Midtown: one building, several apartments

Our old page called a Midtown corner condo his and put it on Central Park South. The building is in Hell's Kitchen.

The New York Post reported in July 2018 that “he lived there, in different units, from 1988 to 2013,” this corner unit among them. 6sqft gave the same span that week, from the tower's opening in 1988 to 2013. Neither says which years he spent in this particular apartment, and the Post does not say whether he rented.

The city's deed records settle ownership. They trace the apartment's title from the developer to a private first owner in 1988, then to other private owners in 2010, 2018 and 2025, and Pacino is on none of those deeds. The 2018 asking price the Post wrote up was that year's owner's. The record is on Al Pacino's former Midtown rental profile.

What we took off this page

Our old headline promised photos. This version has none of its own, so the headline no longer promises any.

The old page also listed a smaller former Palisades house that it said sold in 2010. We could not match it to any parcel on the tax roll or to any report, so it is gone. So are two sections about houses the old page itself said were never his: the mansion seen in Scarface and a rumored Fort Lauderdale home.

More Hudson Valley front doors

Robert De Niro, Pacino's co-star in Heat, keeps a farm farther up the Hudson Valley, covered in Robert De Niro's houses. How we decide which addresses go behind the ropes is explained in celebrity addresses, and who we are is on our about page.