Good news for Swifties: at 5am this morning, Taylor officially released her twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl – albeit to mixed reviews.
The tracks are largely about her very public relationship with American footballer Travis Kelce and the question now on everyone’s lips is: where will the couple hold their forthcoming nuptials, and, more importantly, settle down?
With a property portfolio spanning everywhere in the States from Nashville to New York and Rhode Island, it’s anyone’s guess, while her estimated $1.6b fortune means the couple could snap up a lovenest for themselves pretty much wherever they like.
It's unlikely to be in London, however. Despite a well-documented love of the UK – sharing a flat with then-boyfriend actor Joe Alwyn in Crouch End, renting a townhouse in Primrose Hill, looking to buy in Hampstead or St. John’s Wood and renting again near Chipping Norton – she’s yet to commit to British soil.
So, while we wait (perhaps in vain) for her to become a Londoner, here are the homes she could choose from elsewhere in the world.
Starter home in the South
After moving to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue her career as a musician, Swift bought her first apartment for $1.99 million in 2009.
Close to the famous Music Row, where Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson all recorded tracks, the three-bedroom penthouse covers 4,000 sq ft with a double-height living room wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glass windows and an enormous wine storage room (despite not being old enough to drink at the time she bought it).
She followed up the purchase by buying another one-bedroom unit in the same building for $387,000.
And, in 2011, she treated her family to a property nearby: a 7,700 sq ft Greek revival-style home in Forest Hills, which cost $2.5 million.
Cape Cod calling
The following year, Taylor Swift snapped up a traditional cottage in Cape Cod on the south-eastern coast of Massachusetts for $5m just a short walk from the Kennedy compound, but the property was famously listed again just months later and sold for $5.675m.
Earlier this year, it was put back on the market again by the current owner, this time listed for $14.5m — with serious bragging rights included in the sale.
House on the hill
In 2013, after Taylor had released the multi-award-winning Red, it was time for a holiday home. Swift reportedly bought High Watch, in exclusive Westerly, Rhode Island, for $17.75 million in cash.
The waterfront, colonial-style mansion covers 12,000 sq ft with seven bedrooms, five acres of land, a swimming pool and private shoreline.
It was previously owned by socialite Rebekah Harkness, inspiring Swift’s song, The Last Great American Dynasty.
To deter uninvited visitors, Swift initially put a sign outside which, referencing one of her songs, read: “I knew you were in trouble when you walked in. NO TRESPASSING.” Even so, fans have scaled the walls of her property and even tried to swim to her shoreline.
The no trespassing sign outside Taylor's house... Epic @TSwiftOnTour pic.twitter.com/bvuwZ6vGBw
— Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) July 1, 2013
Swift still owns the property and has used it over the years to entertain friends — including hosting an (almost) annual Fourth of July party – while this year she reportedly spent a $1.7m on a 400 sq ft extension that’s said to include an enormous bedroom suite, additional bedrooms and shiny new kitchen.
New York state of mind
In 2014, Swift bought two adjacent penthouse units at the Sugar Loaf building in Tribeca, New York, for $19.95 million (£14m) and combined them to create an 8,000 sq ft mega-apartment.
It’s said the duplex penthouse lays claim to 10 bedrooms and the same number of bathrooms, a 1,200 sq ft living/dining area, billiards room, more than 2,000 sq ft of terraces and a sweeping staircase for making grand entrances.
Good news, then, that Taylor put out a fire that broke out within the apartment just last year.
California dreaming
While Swift has owned three properties in Los Angeles, it’s arguably her 11,000 sq ft Georgian revival-style mansion – picked up in 2015 for a reported $24m (£20.7) – that’s her most impressive.
It was built for producer Samuel Goldwyn (the G in MGM, no less) in 1934 and boasts almost two acres of land, a swimming pool, tennis court, screening room and library.
Swift embarked on an ambitious restoration of the house, gaining permission to turn the home into a historic landmark in 2017.
Now, the house is reportedly undergoing an unplanned renovation because an incident during the Los Angeles wildfires that had nothing to do with the wildfires: Zoe Kravitz’s mother, who was staying at the property, allowed her pet snake to escape through a hole in the wall, the search that followed resulting in what Kravitz described as “completely destroying Taylor’s bathroom.”
Today, Swift’s property could be worth around $70 million (£57m), according to the Wall Street Journal.
Swift has also owned a four-bedroom East Coast-style house and a glassy 2,950 sq ft bungalow, but sold both in 2018 for $4 million and $2.65 million respectively.
Her third was a Mid-Century modern ranch-style home in Beverly Hills with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, four bedrooms and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar (Swift is known to be a fan of a tipple).
It was also sold in 2018 for $2.65m – a significant reduction on the asking price, although she songstress still banked just shy of $1m in profit.
Back to the Big Apple
So far, Swift is understood to have spent $47.65 million on property in Tribeca.
In 2017, Swift added to her Tribeca property portfolio by buying a three-storey townhouse next door to the Sugar Loaf Building, for $18 million (£13.7m).
The four-bedroom townhouse was built in 1915 by architect and designer Leopoldo Rosati and features a cinema, gym, spa, private bar and spacious rooftop.
Early in 2018, Swift also purchased a 3,500 sq ft unit on the second floor of the Sugar Loaf Building for $9.75 million (£6.9m), intending to connect the two and use the townhouse as a rather luxurious garage, according to the Wall Street Journal.
