Leonardo DiCaprio's Houses: The Bird Streets, Malibu, Palm Springs, and a Belize Island

Leonardo DiCaprio's home base in Los Angeles is a compound of houses in the Bird Streets, the hillside neighborhood above the Sunset Strip where the roads are named for birds. He has been adding to it for years, most recently in December 2022, when he bought the house next door. Beyond it, the star of Titanic and The Revenant holds a bluff-top lot at Paradise Cove in Malibu, the Palm Springs house Donald Wexler designed for Dinah Shore, two neighboring apartments in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park City, and a share of Blackadore Caye, an island off the coast of Belize.

One house has dropped off the list. The Carbon Beach bungalow he kept for 23 years was sold in 2021, and the county now carries its building at zero. This page works from the county tax rolls, the deed records, the state's release on a historic-register nomination, and the local press in Belize, and it drops the gossip.

The compound has its own page: Leonardo DiCaprio's Bird Streets home profile.

The Bird Streets compound

The county tax roll dates DiCaprio's house to 1968, on a tract where most of the neighboring houses went up in the 1960s. How he came to own it is the one point the accounts do not settle, so this page gives no year. Two Hearst magazines say he bought it from Madonna and that it was his first Hollywood property: Elle Decor in June 2024, and a sister title's roundup of his homes that March. Fox News, covering a neighbors' lawsuit in January 2008, called it a house he rented.

That lawsuit is the best-documented moment in the house's life. In May 2007 the couple next door sued DiCaprio in Los Angeles Superior Court, CBS News reported, saying the digging for his basketball court had weakened the hillside under their deck and pool. The suit settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, according to Fox News and SheKnows. Our 2019 version said a judge threw it out, which was wrong.

In December 2022 DiCaprio bought that same neighbor's house in an off-market deal, according to SheKnows, which counted four houses and four pools on 5.14 acres once it closed. The county roll lines up with the story. The parcel next door carries a house built in 1963 and a 2023 base year, the marker California assessors set when a property changes hands and its taxable value is reset.

His other Los Angeles houses are separate stories, and neither is on our map. The Spanish-style house in Silver Lake was sold in 2018, according to that Hearst roundup, about two decades after he bought it in 1999. And in 2021 he bought a 1928 Spanish Colonial house in Los Feliz from the actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, as Elle Decor and the roundup both reported.

Malibu: a lot at Paradise Cove

DiCaprio's current Malibu property is a bluff-top lot at Paradise Cove, bought on November 30, 2016, according to property records. The Wall Street Journal, which reported the purchase that year, says local real estate agents call this stretch of cliff Billionaires' Bluff. The lot, which we map as Leonardo DiCaprio's Paradise Cove home profile, came with a chain of owners. Director Ridley Scott owned it earlier and kept its small cottage for two years, Architectural Digest says, then sold it to Vinnie Viola, the billionaire founder of the trading firm Virtu Financial and owner of the NHL's Florida Panthers.

Before he sold, Viola had won approval to replace the cottage with a two-story house, a pool, a cliffside deck, and a private beach, Architectural Digest wrote in 2025, crediting Mansion Global, and AD said work was still under way in 2024. The county's paperwork has not caught up. Our 2019 version said the cottage was demolished soon after the sale, and the 2026 roll still lists the cottage, dated 1940, as the one building on the lot.

Carbon Beach: the bungalow the county now carries at zero

For most of his career, DiCaprio's Malibu house was somewhere else. He bought a beach bungalow on Carbon Beach in September 1998, nine months after Titanic opened, W magazine reported. By 2016, W said, it was the home he had owned longest, and his mother was the one more likely to use it, part time.

He let it go in stages. It was up for rent at $50,000 a month in 2016, W reported, and that September he put it up for sale. LAist later noted that it had come off the market. That November he bought the Paradise Cove lot. He sold the bungalow furnished in November 2021, TMZ reported, and the Hearst roundup gives the same year. The county's base year for the parcel moved to 2022, its record of the change in ownership.

The county no longer counts a building there. The Los Angeles County Assessor's record for the parcel shows an approved misfortune and calamity claim, the tax relief an owner can file when a disaster destroys or damages a building, and it carries the improvements at $0 on both the 2026 roll and the one being prepared for 2027. Only the land is still taxed, and our map keeps the site as Leonardo DiCaprio's former Carbon Beach home profile.

The record does not say what happened. The timing fits the Palisades Fire, which burned into Malibu in January 2025 and left rows of oceanfront homes in ruins, as Fox Weather's footage showed that month. We have not found a report that names this house among them.

The land's paperwork reaches much further back. The county's legal description for the parcel still opens with “land of Matthew Keller,” the Irish immigrant who took the Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit, the old rancho that covered this coast, by quitclaim for $1,400. A quitclaim is a deed that hands over whatever rights the seller holds and promises nothing more.

Palm Springs: the Dinah Shore house

DiCaprio bought the Dinah Shore house in 2014, while he was a best actor nominee, Palm Springs Life reported, and our map carries it as Leonardo DiCaprio's Palm Springs home profile. Shore, the singer and television host, commissioned it in 1964 from Donald Wexler, who had worked for Richard Neutra. A California State Parks release in July 2019 called it one of the largest single-family houses of Wexler's long career. He set it diagonally on its lot in a pinwheel plan, under a flat roof with walls of glass. The guesthouse came first, in 1963, as Shore's art studio and her place to stay while the main house went up.

That release came as the state reviewed the house's nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, the federal list of buildings judged worth preserving, and it settles a mix-up that runs through the secondary coverage. Pages that credit this house to George Montgomery, the actor who was Shore's earlier husband, have the wrong one: the two built a different house in the Movie Colony neighborhood in 1952, Palm Springs Life reported, and divorced in 1962. The State Parks release on the nomination names this house for Shore and her husband at the time, Maurice Smith.

We have not confirmed that the house was formally added to the register, so we call it nominated.

Shore did not stay long, according to the Palm Springs Modern Committee. Later owners included the Broadway composer Jerry Herman and David Lee, a co-creator of Frasier and Wings. Kirk Douglas lived next door, Atomic Ranch reported, and a gate once connected the two properties.

The neighborhood, Old Las Palmas, had drawn stars for decades. It was a citrus grove until Prescott Stevens subdivided it in the mid-1920s, and studio contracts that kept actors within two hours of Hollywood made it a celebrity haven, the Coachella Valley Independent wrote in February 2026.

DiCaprio has mostly rented it out. By March 2015 it was available at $4,500 a night, ABC7 reported, with groups whose members were under 25 turned away. Architectural Digest said in 2025 that he still owned it and that it was still for rent, and the Coachella Valley Independent said the same in 2026. Readers kept asking us about a DiCaprio house in Palm Beach, Florida. We have found no record of one.

New York: two apartments in Battery Park City

The Associated Press reported in April 2008 that DiCaprio had bought an apartment in a new Battery Park City tower, with the developer's president confirming the sale and move-in set for that summer. In 2014 he bought the apartment next door, which has a large terrace of its own. New York City's deed records show both units going to the same limited liability company, in October 2008 and January 2014, and no deed moving either one out of it since. The 2024 Hearst roundup said he still owns both, and our map lists his Battery Park City home as Leonardo DiCaprio's New York home profile.

A second Manhattan apartment came and went. In 2014 he bought a Greenwich Village condo marketed on its wellness design, and he sold it two years later at a loss, 6sqft reported.

Blackadore Caye: an island resort not yet open

DiCaprio bought Blackadore Caye in 2005 with Jeff Gram, who owns the Cayo Espanto private-island resort, Caribbean Journal reported in 2015, citing The New York Times. France's RSE Magazine described the two as equal partners in 2026. The island, on our map as Leonardo DiCaprio's private island, runs to about 104 acres and sits about 7.5 miles west of Ambergris Caye and its town, San Pedro, on the side facing the Belize mainland rather than the barrier reef, according to The San Pedro Sun.

It was in poor shape. ArchDaily reported years of overfishing, an eroding coastline, and deforestation, and a San Pedro Scoop writer who visited in 2016 found one mangrove tree left. The plan unveiled in April 2015 set aside 45% of the island for conservation and held new buildings to the Living Building Challenge, a strict green-building standard.

The timing put the plan at odds with the water around it. In February 2015, weeks before the plans went public, Belize expanded the Hol Chan Marine Reserve along Ambergris Caye's leeward coast and added a Blackadore Conservation Zone, The San Pedro Sun reported. Fishing guides pushed back. Omar Arceo told The Drake Magazine in 2016 that the planned north pier sat on flats where permit, a prized game fish, feed, and that the overwater structures broke Belize's rules on public shoreline.

The overwater buildings were later cut from the plan. Belize's Department of the Environment then approved the project's environmental impact assessment, the government's required review of what a development will do to its surroundings, in October 2016. The San Pedro Sun's report on the approval named DiCaprio's development partner as Paul Scialla, a former Wall Street banker, and the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust reported the overwater structures' removal that November.

The resort was first due to open in 2018. As of September 2026, RSE Magazine reported no finished resort and no confirmed opening date.