Nicole Kidman's House in Los Angeles and Nashville: Which One She Comes Home To

Nashville. That is the short answer, and it has been the answer for years, even while the Los Angeles house kept collecting most of the photographs. Kidman lives behind a walled gate in the Northumberland community, on the southern edge of the Green Hills side of Davidson County. Architectural Digest, writing in May 2026, put the Nashville estate down as her primary residence and quoted her saying “We have our life here” and calling it “my home.” The Beverly Hills house is the West Coast base she still owns, and the third address people remember, a farm outside Franklin, has not been hers since 2018.

The confusion has a date on it, and the date is 2008. In March of that year the couple bought the Nashville property. Later the same year they bought the Beverly Hills house for $4.7M. They already owned the Franklin farm, picked up in 2007. For a decade all 3 were current at once, so any given article could call any given one the main house and not be caught out. The version of this piece we ran in 2018 called Los Angeles the main home. The county record and the last 2 years of reporting both say otherwise now.

Start with the record, because it is more specific than any of the coverage. Davidson County's ownership parcel layer and the assessor roll behind it show 2 adjoining lots inside Northumberland carrying the same acquisition date, March 14, 2008, and the same $3.47M consideration on both entries. That is what a single purchase of 2 neighboring lots looks like when a parcel database has to write it down twice. Together they run a little over 2 acres, in a subdivision where the standard lot is 1 acre. For the parcel, the ownership trail, and the map pin, see Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's Nashville home profile on Velvet Ropes.

The Nashville address is not, strictly, in Nashville

Every parcel inside the Northumberland walls carries the tax district code for Forest Hills, not for the Metro Nashville urban services district. Forest Hills is one of Davidson County's satellite cities: it incorporated in 1957 under Tennessee's general law manager-commission charter, and when Nashville and Davidson County merged their governments in 1963 it was among the small municipalities allowed to keep its charter, its commissioners, and its own zoning. It covers a little over 9 square miles of steep wooded hillside and had 5,038 residents at the 2020 count.

The mailing city on the parcel still reads Nashville, which is why every outlet says Nashville and why nobody is wrong. It is the same species of ambiguity that dogs the Los Angeles house, where a Beverly Hills postal address does not always mean the city of Beverly Hills. Two houses, 2 addresses that describe themselves loosely, one couple who owned both at once. That is the whole mechanism of the confusion.

What was behind the gate before the celebrities were

Northumberland is not old. The county roll traces all of its lots back to a single recorded plat, filed as plat book 6250 at pages 128 and 129, and the parcels were established in the mid-1980s. Houses went up gradually from then into the late 1990s, with a few built in the 2000s, which is why the architecture inside the walls does not agree with itself: French chateau shapes next to English Tudor timbering next to Mediterranean stucco and Georgian brick. There are roughly 65 estate homes, a walled perimeter, and a manned gate that runs 24 hours, one of only 2 such gates in the city.

Whoever named the streets committed to the theme completely. Buckland Abbey, Chartwell Manor, Castle Rising, Kenilworth, Inveraray: a Devon abbey, Churchill's Kent house, a Norfolk castle, a Warwickshire ruin, a Scottish ducal seat. Northumberland itself is the English county whose duke sits at Alnwick. A community that named its lanes after British stately homes and then sold a house to an Australian actress and a New Zealand-born country singer has a sense of humor about itself, whether it meant to or not. The nickname the celebrity press hung on the property, the “Queen of Northumberland,” fits the naming convention better than it fits the house.

The land under it is older than the subdivision and was slower to develop than the rest of Middle Tennessee. Forest Hills stayed farms and woods through the 1800s because the topography made large-scale agriculture difficult, and its oldest surviving building, the McCrory-Mayfield House, dates to about 1798. Estate houses only started appearing in the early 20th century, following the pattern set at Belle Meade. Northumberland arrived at the end of that sequence, when the last big wooded parcels in the hills were worth more platted than farmed. One neighborhood guide notes that another house inside the walls is marketed as the former Twitty estate, which tells you what kind of buyer the gate was built for.

The 2 lots became 1 parcel in 2025

Here is the part no magazine piece has picked up. On January 7, 2025 a consolidation plat was recorded that merged the 2 lots bought in 2008 into a single parcel, legally described as lot 1 of the Northumberland consolidation. The merged parcel measures 2.01 acres, and the 2026 assessment roll carries it at $4,142,000, of which $3,373,600 is the improvement rather than the ground. The address the county now prints on it is the lower of the 2 original house numbers; the higher one, the number our own archive record carries, no longer exists as a separate parcel. Anyone comparing an old citation against a current record search will find the address has quietly gone missing, which is one more reason this property is hard to pin down.

The ownership line moved again shortly after. Kidman filed for divorce in September 2025, and the settlement was signed off in a Nashville court on January 6, 2026, with no alimony, no child support, and each party keeping their own assets. Taste of Country reported in October 2025 that every one of the couple's properties sat inside a trust or an LLC before the split became public, and that Kidman intended to stay in the Nashville house so the daughters' lives would not move. A month after the divorce was final, on February 6, 2026, the consolidated parcel was quitclaimed into a living trust whose mail goes to a West Los Angeles office. The house stayed put. The paperwork around it did not.

The Franklin farm, 2007 to 2018

The third address is the one that generates most of the stale search results. Urban and Kidman assembled roughly 35 acres near Franklin in 2007 for $2.45M, on the road that runs southwest toward Leiper's Fork, and kept it for 11 years: a brick farmhouse behind a long gated drive, with a guest cottage, a barn, a garden, and trails through the pasture. It went on the market in 2017 at $3.45M, came down to $2.75M, and sold in November 2018 for $2.7M. That property is now on its next owners, and it is why a search for Kidman's Nashville house so often returns photographs of a farm she left behind. It has its own file here: the Franklin farm profile.

The farm also explains why she stayed in Tennessee at all. Talking to CBS Sunday Morning in December 2024, Kidman described the stretch after her first daughter with Urban was born in 2008, when she was living on the farm and thought her career was over. “I think I'm pretty much done now,” she said she had decided, and her mother talked her out of it. Big Little Lies, The Undoing, and Bombshell all came after that conversation.

The Los Angeles house

The West Coast property is the one the legacy version of this article got closest to wrong. It was bought in 2008 for $4.7M, sits on about 1.4 acres of hillside behind a community gate, and reads as modern where the Nashville house reads as European: stone and concrete, a flat roof, terraces, hedging worked hard for privacy. Our own older copy called it a Hollywood Hills house. The reporting since, including Architectural Digest and Rolling Stone, files it in Beverly Hills, and Kidman kept it in the divorce.

It made the news on Valentine's Day 2025, when a security guard told Los Angeles police that someone smashed a glass door and burglarized the house. Kidman, Urban, and both daughters were away. No arrests were reported. The break-in came during a run of similar entries at Los Angeles celebrity homes that season, and it is a decent illustration of why the exact street number stays behind the ropes on this site, whichever coast it is on.

More Nashville front doors

Green Hills, Forest Hills, Brentwood, and Franklin hold a good share of them. Start with celebrity homes in Nashville, or read how we handle celebrity addresses themselves.