Gordon Ramsay's House: Bel Air Crest, and His Homes in England

Gordon Ramsay bought his Los Angeles home in 2012, in Bel Air Crest, a guard-gated enclave in Bel Air, and on Los Angeles County's tax record it has not been sold since. In England, the British chef behind Fox's Hell's Kitchen keeps a family home in London and a house in Rock, a village in Cornwall.

The page that stood at this URL in 2018 was built on photos that appear to be sale pictures and on a claim about his kitchen that we cannot source. This version keeps to the county record and the 2012 reporting, and it corrects the 2018 version in print below.

We do not print the street address, and here is why. The county's figures for the house, and the map, are on Gordon Ramsay's Bel Air home profile.

Bought in 2012, not sold since

The purchase made news in the last week of January 2012. Zillow's blog, in a piece Yahoo Finance syndicated on January 26, put the price at $6.75M, and NBC Bay Area and JustLuxe reported the same figure within days. NBC Bay Area placed the house in “the guard-gated compound of Bel Air Crest.” The timing fit: MasterChef, which films in Los Angeles, was heading into its third season, and Zillow's blog called the move “a natural one” for a chef with that many American projects.

We know the house has not been sold from the Los Angeles County Assessor, the county office that values every property for tax. Under California's Proposition 13, a house's taxable value is fixed in the year it changes hands, which the county calls its base year, and after that it can rise only by a small capped amount each year until the next sale resets it. On the 2026 roll, the county's yearly list of every parcel and its value, this house still carries a 2012 base year, with no reset since. Two limits apply. Los Angeles County does not publish owner names online, so the record cannot name who holds title, and a paper transfer of the house into the owner's own trust, which is not a sale, would not reset the base year either. What the record does show is that the house has not been sold since the year Ramsay bought it.

As of October 2026 we found no report that the house has sold or gone up for sale.

Built in 2003, in a young enclave

The house went up in 2003, according to the county roll. Its architect was Ken Ungar, a credit that both Zillow's blog and JustLuxe carry. Country & Town House adds one detail we have from no one else: the interiors were by Carole Poet.

Bel Air Crest is younger than most of Bel Air. The LA Real Estate Agency, a local brokerage, dates the enclave's first custom-home lot sales to 1989, so this house came 14 years into the development's life.

Ramsay shopped bigger first. JustLuxe reported in January 2012 that he had looked at an $18.75M estate the previous April before settling on this one. It did not name the estate.

What we got wrong in 2018

The old page's headline promised photos of his Los Angeles kitchen, and its text called the kitchen underwhelming, adding a hope that he had renovated it. We found no source anywhere for that judgment. The photos it ran were credited to the brokerage that marketed the house, which suggests they were sale pictures, a record of the house as it was sold and not of the way Ramsay lives in it. The claim is gone, and so are the photos.

It also gave a floor area that neither the county roll nor the 2012 reports match. The record's figures are on the home profile; this page prints none.

Our old profile of the house carried two more errors. It said Ramsay bought in October 2011, a date we could not find in any source we were able to read. Every report of the purchase is dated January 26 to 30, 2012, and the county's base year is 2012. Until someone reads the deed, the document recorded when a property changes hands, we give the year the purchase made news and no closing date.

The profile also said Kanye West and Kim Kardashian had since moved in down the street. NBC News reported something narrower in January 2013: that the couple had gone into contract on a home in Bel Air. Nothing we found places that house on any particular street, so neither does this page, and the claim as the profile stated it is removed. Their own addresses are a separate story, told in where the Kardashians live.

Last, the 2018 page said Ramsay had sold a Cornwall house in 2021 for 7.5 million euros. The currency was wrong. The house, in the village of Trebetherick, sold in March 2021 for £7.5M, according to Land Registry documents that Hello magazine reported in 2022 (HM Land Registry is the government's record of who owns land in England and Wales, and what they paid). Country & Town House gives the same price and month.

The homes in England

London is the family's English base, according to Hello magazine's 2025 portfolio piece and Country & Town House. In Cornwall the Ramsays own a house in Rock, as the same two outlets report. We print nothing more about either.

For the rest of the city he chose in 2012, start with our guide to celebrity homes in Los Angeles.