From Manhattan One-Bedrooms To An $11M Beverly Hills Base — Timothée Chalamet’S Modest Real-Estate Trail

Small footprint, big career

Timothée Chalamet’s real-estate trail reads more like a coming-of-age story than a celebrity property roll call. Public records and reporting show at least five places tied to his life so far — his childhood home, three New York rentals and one headline-grabbing Beverly Hills purchase. For a young actor who’s become one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces, that’s a pretty modest map.

What makes his housing history interesting is how it mirrors his professional climb - from a Manhattan teen chasing auditions to an Oscar-nominated star with a permanent L.A. base. Rather than piling up multiple mansions, Chalamet’s path went from shared apartments and a modest one-bedroom to an $11 million Beverly Hills estate he bought in 2022.

Manhattan roots and the building that shaped him

Growing up in Manhattan Plaza

Chalamet was raised in Manhattan Plaza, the 46-story residential complex in Hell's Kitchen that was built with performing artists in mind. This wasn’t the luxe celebrity tower you picture on a Hollywood red carpet - Manhattan Plaza was part of New York’s affordable housing system, with many units held for those working in the arts.

Living there gave him real proximity to the city’s theater and entertainment community during his formative years. That environment — surrounded by other aspiring performers — influenced how he thought about an acting career long before the awards and big-budget movies arrived.

“Having a permanent home base in L.A. gave me a real sense of stability that I hadn’t felt while moving between New York apartments,” Chalamet later reflected when discussing the move west.

The early rental years in New York

Bronx and East Village stints

After finishing high school in 2013, Chalamet briefly enrolled at Columbia University and lived in an apartment near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx while chasing acting gigs. That period was still very much about building experience and taking small roles.

He later attended NYU and shared an East Village apartment with two roommates. These were the years when he had small parts on projects like Homeland and Interstellar - important credits, but still far from the stardom that Call Me by Your Name would bring.

His first solo Manhattan place

The West 43rd Street one-bedroom

In the summer of 2020, Chalamet moved into his first solo apartment in Manhattan - a roughly 1,000-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit on West 43rd Street. Rental estimates put the monthly cost at about $4,000. For many New Yorkers that’s a grown-up milestone; for a young actor it was a bid at independence in the city that made him.

Zendaya played a small, Los Angeles-adjacent role in getting the place set up, helping him buy basic household items and joking that the apartment had a very "teenage boy" vibe. The solo pad didn’t last forever, but it marked a transition from shared living to having his own city space.

The $11 million Beverly Hills pivot

Details on the estate and why it mattered

May 2022 was the watershed: Chalamet paid about $11 million for a Beverly Hills house that had previously belonged to Kate Upton and Justin Verlander. The roughly 5,500-square-foot property sits on about 1.5 acres and includes four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a wine cellar, formal dining room, family room, pool, rose gardens and a tennis court.

The house has a stacked celebrity past - names attached to it reportedly include Kenny G and Pete Sampras, among others. Chalamet reportedly had the property for only about 10 days before heading off to work on Dune: Part Two, but he has said that simply having a permanent home base in Los Angeles had a psychological impact on him and represented a sharp break from years of rentals in New York.

Where things stand today

A compact portfolio despite massive fame

As of 2026, the Beverly Hills estate remains the only publicly documented property Chalamet owns. Architectural Digest and other reports indicate he still calls the house home. That’s notable - many actors who reach his level of fame collect multiple residences, yet Chalamet’s holdings felt comparatively restrained.

To recap the publicly documented timeline: Manhattan Plaza in Hell's Kitchen was his childhood home; he lived near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx during early college days; he shared an East Village apartment while at NYU; he rented a one-bedroom on West 43rd Street from 2020 to 2022; and in 2022 he bought the Beverly Hills estate for about $11 million. Depending on whether you count family residences, that’s five places in total, or four if you’re only looking at adult rentals and ownership.

What the real-estate trail reveals

More than a property tally, Chalamet’s modest real-estate record tells a story about priorities - a gradual move from New York’s tight, artist-focused housing scene to a single, significant L.A. home base. He went from sharing cramped apartments and renting a Manhattan one-bedroom to owning a substantial Beverly Hills estate without building a sprawling celebrity real-estate empire.

That arc mirrors his professional leap: from supporting turns in shows and films to starring roles in Dune and Wonka, and to becoming a four-time Oscar nominee - all while keeping a relatively compact housing footprint.