LeBron James's Houses: Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Akron, and Miami

For the eight years he played for the Lakers, LeBron James's Los Angeles home was a house in Brentwood that he bought new in late 2017, months before he left Cleveland. His family was still living there in the summer of 2025, when Sports Illustrated reported that Bronny James, by then his father's teammate, lived at the house with his parents. In July 2026 James signed with the Philadelphia 76ers, NBA.com reported. Where he will live on the East Coast is not settled: Marc Stein reported that James wants a base in New York, as Heavy relayed on Yahoo Sports, and no sale of his Los Angeles houses has been reported.

It is not his only house. The compound outside Akron he started assembling as a rookie in 2003 is still his, according to Architectural Digest. A Beverly Hills estate he bought in 2020 is now a construction site. Two more homes, one in Miami and an earlier one in Brentwood, were sold in 2015 and 2021.

The Brentwood house he bought new

James was still a Cavalier when he bought his Brentwood house, late in 2017, and it was his second Brentwood purchase in about two years, Sports Illustrated reported at the time. The house was a spec build, meaning a developer put it up without a buyer in hand. The developer was Cutting Edge Developments, a firm that the real estate agent Santiago Arana of The Agency formed with David Herskowitz, according to a Pasadena Magazine profile of Arana. The same profile lists the sale among Arana's double-ended deals, the trade term for a sale where one agent represents both the seller and the buyer. So the agent whose firm built the house represented both sides when James bought it.

Shortly before 4 a.m. on October 28, 2019, the Getty Fire forced the family out. James tweeted that he had to emergency-evacuate his house and was driving around with his family trying to find rooms, CBS Los Angeles reported. Patch counted 10 homes destroyed by the fire by the time residents were allowed back.

His tweet said only "my house," and that October he owned two houses in Brentwood. We place the evacuation at this one, and it is our reading rather than anything James or an outlet has said. By our reading of the Los Angeles Fire Department's map, its mandatory evacuation zone took in this house and stopped short of the 2015 one, and Los Angeles magazine reported in 2021 that the 2015 house had not been the family's main Los Angeles home.

Wildfires forced the family out in January 2025. James said the family had spent about a week in a hotel and that the house was "still standing and we're grateful for that," Fox News reported.

The first Brentwood house, 2015 to 2021

James bought his first Los Angeles house in October 2015, during his second season back in Cleveland. A Realtor.com report carried by Fox News described it then as a summer vacation house, with his main home staying in Ohio. It was four years old. The architect Ken Ungar, who has designed custom houses on the west side of Los Angeles since 1989, drew it, and Galerie called the look classic East Coast: a hip roof, dormers, and a front of white brick and natural stone.

On May 31, 2017, the day before the NBA Finals opened, a security guard found a racial slur spray-painted on the front gate. The Los Angeles Police Department investigated it as a possible hate crime, CBS Los Angeles and ABC News reported. James was away with the Cavaliers.

He put the house up for sale in March 2021 and sold it privately that September for $19.6M, according to Dirt, the Los Angeles Times, and The Real Deal, about $1.4M under the $21M he paid in 2015. Our 2018 version of this page, as later updated, dated that sale to 2022. It closed in September 2021.

Beverly Hills: bought from a bubble, then torn down

The estate James bought in 2020 was a 1930s house with a long Hollywood history, and the house is gone now. Los Angeles magazine traced it to the actor Charles Boyer. Howard Hughes took the property in a settlement when Boyer parted ways with RKO in the late 1940s, the magazine wrote, and then rented it to Katharine Hepburn. In 1986 the soap opera creators Lee Phillip Bell and William Bell, of The Young and the Restless, bought it run-down and remade it. Lee lived there until she died at 91 in February 2020.

James closed on it on September 30, 2020, while he was inside the NBA's Orlando bubble for the Finals. He bought it off photos and a virtual tour without ever walking through it, CBS Sports reported, and TMZ dated the closing. The Lakers won the title 11 days later.

The Los Angeles County tax roll lists every parcel on the street as City of Los Angeles land, Beverly Hills postal address or not. For a rebuild that matters, because the permits and the planning approvals go through Los Angeles, not through the City of Beverly Hills.

After nearly three years of chasing permits, James moved in June 2023 to tear the old house down, Front Office Sports reported, as Fox Sports relayed. Aerial photos Sports Illustrated published in 2025 showed the site cleared.

What replaces it is two houses, not one. Realtor.com reported in October 2025, in a story carried by Yahoo Entertainment, that James had permission to split the 2.72-acre lot into two parcels, each with its own new house, sharing one driveway behind a private guard house, and that each house will get a new address when it is finished. The Real Deal reported the same two-house plan that month. The Los Angeles firm Walker Workshop designed them, with Crest Real Estate running the planning. Architectural Digest wrote in July 2026 that the houses appeared to be nearing completion. We have not seen the new parcels' owner of record, so the rebuild here rests on those reports.

Outside Akron, in Summit County

The house James has owned longest is his compound outside Akron, which Summit County's Fiscal Office taxes in a township northwest of the city. He bought 5.5 acres there in 2003, as an 18-year-old Cavaliers rookie, and later tore down the house already standing on the land, Patch reported. In 2006 he added the neighboring parcel, which came with its own house, and Summit County Council let him merge the two into a single lot.

Our 2018 version of this page said he had built onto the house that was already there. He replaced it. The new mansion was finished in 2007, the year both Architectural Digest and the county's record give, and inside, according to Architectural Digest, are a two-lane bowling alley, a recording studio, a barbershop, and an aquarium.

Then came the garage. In early 2013 the township's zoning appeals board approved plans for a one-story garage on the added parcel for collector cars, memorabilia, and a showroom, drawn by Illes Architects of Medina, Patch reported.

The county's owner of record is a limited liability company, not James by name. When he announced the move to Philadelphia, he signed off by saying Northeast Ohio would always be home, NBA.com reported.

Coconut Grove, 2010 to 2015

James bought his Miami house in November 2010, four months after announcing on live television that he was leaving Cleveland for the Heat. The deed went to an LLC tied to LRMR, his marketing company, according to CBS Miami. The Miami-Dade Property Appraiser's record dates the house to 2010.

He put it up for sale in October 2014, three months after announcing his return to Cleveland. The buyers, a married couple of Florida property investors, had been renting it since June 2015, and the sale closed that August for $13.4M, ESPN reported. The couple had earlier sold a house once owned by the Heat center Alonzo Mourning, according to ESPN.

LeBron James's former Coconut Grove home has changed hands twice since, in April 2021 and November 2023, according to the county's sales history.