Snoop Dogg's House in Diamond Bar, and His First in Claremont

Snoop Dogg has owned the same house since 1998. It is in Diamond Bar, a hillside suburb on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, and he bought it five years after his debut album, Doggystyle, opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. For nine of those years he held a second house a short drive away in Claremont: the first home he ever owned, bought in 1994 and sold in 2007.

The county record is the clearest proof that he never sold the Diamond Bar house. In California a house is reassessed for property tax when it changes hands, and the year of that sale becomes its base year, the starting point every later tax bill grows from. We read the Los Angeles County Assessor's roll in September 2026, and it still carries the house at a 1998 base year, so it has not been sold since he bought it. It also carries a homeowners' exemption, a tax break the state allows only on an owner's main residence. The same record dates the house to 1977. Architectural Digest and Elle Decor both put his 1998 price at $720,000.

We do not print the street address. For the property record, the purchase history and the map, see Snoop Dogg's Diamond Bar home profile on Velvet Ropes.

Diamond Bar, 1998 to now

Five years in, SPIN described it in June 2003 as his primary residence, a mansion in one of Diamond Bar's quieter neighborhoods. The magazine put the town about an hour's drive east of Los Angeles.

In July 2018 the house surfaced in court over a remodel. The Blast reported, from court filings, that Snoop wanted no less than $500,000 from the contractors who had worked on it, saying they had not finished the job, had not paid their subcontractors and had not met regulatory requirements. Architectural Digest repeated the claim in 2025. The work The Blast listed was upkeep for a house past 40: stucco and paint touch-ups, new doors and appliances, a glass fence around the pool, and rust scrubbed out of the pool itself.

The Blast called the dispute ongoing. We found no later report of how it ended.

Claremont, the first house, 1994 to 2007

His first house was in Claremont, a college town in the foothills east of Diamond Bar, and he bought it in 1994, the year after Doggystyle came out. Architectural Digest puts the price at $660,000; Elle Decor says $600,000. The county dates the house to 1989, so it was about five years old when he bought it. The same record gives it an effective year of 1994. That is the date an assessor uses when additions or remodeling leave a house reading younger than its build year; the record does not say what work was done. Architectural Digest says he expanded the house over the years.

The house turns up in the record of his life in 1996. That February a Los Angeles jury acquitted him of murder in a 1993 shooting death, and the manslaughter count ended in a mistrial when the jury deadlocked. Six months later the Los Angeles Times found him settled in Claremont with his young family and a kennel of 20 pit bulls.

MTV brought its cameras in 2000, for the fifth episode of the first season of MTV Cribs, which the episode guide TheTVDB lists as airing on October 18, 2000. Architectural Digest's account of the tour has him walking viewers through the formal living and dining rooms and out to a custom basketball court decorated with the Lakers logo. He moved out the same year, according to AllHipHop's report on the sale.

He kept the house seven more years and sold it in August 2007 for $1.83M. The county's books agree to the dollar: the land and building values it enrolled in 2008, when the new owner's tax base was set, add up to exactly $1,830,000, the same as his sale price. When the sale made news, Claremont police captain Gary Jenkins told the Claremont Courier there had been “regular parties, and they were loud,” a quote AllHipHop carried in its report.

The Claremont house has its own page: Snoop Dogg's former Claremont home.

More homes behind the ropes

Dr. Dre, who put Snoop on The Chronic in 1992, has a profile of his own: Dr. Dre's Los Angeles house. And for how we decide what to publish about any of these front doors, read how we handle celebrity addresses.