Why Ed Sheeran and Adele are buying up so many houses: from her California compound to his sprawling Suffolk ‘Sheeranville’ – complete with pub and treehouse

Jul 31 , 2021

Britain’s red-haired singing sweethearts Adele and Ed Sheeran have the money to buy their privacy – through property acquisitions. Photos: @AdeleSlaysUrFav, @WORLDMUSICAWARD, @VCM1234/ Twitter

Adele spent US$30 million in one neighbourhood, snapping up friend Nicole Richie’s house to enjoy the same privacy as neighbours Katy Perry and Nicole Kidman

Ed Sheeran’s 16-acre English estate has its own pub, lake, treehouse and man cave, all connected by underground tunnels – but his neighbours aren’t happy

Adele and Ed Sheeran are two of the most successful musicians on the planet, so it’s no surprise they would want to safeguard their privacy as much as possible when kicking back in their own homes. It may also explain why the singers are slowly acquiring properties in the vicinity of the residences they originally bought a few years ago, thereby creating enormous estates that score them even more protection from prying eyes.

The Brits have both been snapping up nearby real estate like it’s going out of fashion – Adele in California and Sheeran in England. And with reports of secret tunnels, giant vegetable gardens and lakes, you can bet they need never leave.

Here’s what you need to know about Adele and Sheeran’s big property moves …

Adele’s California compound

Adele’s marriage may have fallen apart, but she was keen to keep enjoying life with her son in the same neighbourhood – so just bought the house next door! Photo: @adele/Instagram

The musician first forked out US$9.5 million for a home in Hidden Hills, California back in 2016. The area is one of the most exclusive in California, with Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz and Katy Perry all reported to live in the same community.

Then in 2019, after splitting from husband Simon Konecki, she moved out of the house, and into another right next door that she’d bought for herself and her son Angelo so that the whole family could still be close to one another. This second home cost around US$10.7 million.

Now the Hello singer has snapped up a third house in the same block from her long time friend and neighbour Nicole Richie, for another US$10 million, bringing the total worth of her Beverly Hills empire to more than US$30 million.

Inside the new pad