From castle-inspired mansions in Las Vegas to sprawling hunting ranches in Georgia, celebrities were behind some of the most buzzworthy real estate deals of 2025.
Whether they were headline-grabbing sales or splashy new purchases, the properties were just as notable as the big names attached to them.
Here are 10 of this year’s biggest.
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Elvis Presley
In February, a Beverly Hills home that Elvis Presley bought in 1967 for $400,000, hit the market for $24.5 million. The part-modern, part-French Regency home was reportedly home to Presley, along with his wife, Priscilla, and daughter, Lisa Marie, for six years.
The four-bedroom house mixes original details, like skylights and coffered ceilings, with modern updates, and has views that extend from Los Angeles all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Mary Tyler Moore
A Connecticut mansion that was owned by the late Mary Tyler Moore sold in March for $16.9 million.
Built in 1900, the Georgian Colonial in Greenwich spans more than 13,800 square feet and has features like a glass conservatory, an elevator, a gym and a 65-foot pool with an outdoor fireplace.
Moore and husband S. Robert Levine bought the property in 2006 for $9 million. The actress, best known for her work on the long-running 1970s sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” died in 2017 at age 80.
Jake Paul
YouTube personality and boxer Jake Paul made one of the largest recreational land deals in Georgia history when he spent $39 million on a storied sporting ranch in the state’s Decatur County.
Paul used the roughly $30 million he won defeating heavyweight legend Mike Tyson in 2024 to purchase the 5,653-acre property, named Southlands. The ranch has a stocked lake, a duck pond, and 5 miles of spring creeks that include waterfalls and feeder creeks. The remodeled 4,884-square-foot main lodge has eight bedrooms, five full bathrooms and one half bath.
Paris Hilton
A massive Beverly Hills compound that Mark Wahlberg built changed hands for $63 million in June, and the buyer was reportedly Paris Hilton.
The 6.2-acre estate in the hills of North Beverly Park features a European-style villa that spans over 35,000 square feet, as well as a five-hole golf course, a skate park and water slides. Wahlberg, star of “The Departed” and ”Boogie Nights,” purchased the land for $8.25 million in 2009 and commissioned megamansion designer Richard Landry to build it. Wahlberg sold the home in 2023.
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey found a buyer for his longtime Los Angeles home in the summer, after a previous pending deal fell through. The 2-acre Brentwood property had been asking $18.75 million, $10 million less than its original asking price in 2023.
Carrey purchased the home in 1994, the same year that “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” “Mask” and “Dumb and Dumber” were released. The ranch-style home was built in 1951 and spans over 10,000 square feet, with five bedrooms, an Art Deco-style theater, a sunroom and a pool deck with its own waterfall. The outdoor areas include a poolside covered patio, pathways and trails through gardens, and a meditation platform in a secluded, wooded area.
Burt Reynolds
A home in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Highlands, North Carolina, that was owned by the late actor Burt Reynolds hit the market for $3.699 million in July and swiftly sold.
Set within the Nantahala National Forest, the 1970s home was designed by modernist architect Jim Fox. The home looks like a cross between a tree house and a yacht, with curved wood-clad ceilings, wood-paneled walls and floors, and wooden built-in furniture. The prevalent wood is balanced by large glass windows and stone walls, including a double-height stone monolith that centers the home.
Zoltan Bathory
A castle-inspired mansion in Las Vegas owned by Zoltan Bathory, founder and rhythm guitarist for the band Five Finger Death Punch, hit the market in August for $28 million.
The heavy metal musician transformed the home, which he bought in 2019 for $3.25 million. A replica of a 17th-century Scottish castle, the house has a period fireplace in the great room, a 16th-century French garden gate, stone accent walls, Gothic windows and custom-made sconces designed to look like torches.
Christopher Lloyd
“Back to the Future” star Christopher Lloyd listed his mountain home in Santa Barbara, California, for $6.38 million.
Located on a 6-acre lot, the property features picture-book views of the California coast and the surrounding mountains. The main home is a contemporary stucco building that spans 2,880 square feet and has three bedrooms, transitional common spaces that look out onto the ocean, and a soft wood-toned palette introduced in a redesign led by the actor’s wife, Lisa Lloyd. The Lloyds purchased the home in 2017.
Christine McVie
Across the pond in London, the home of late Fleetwood Mac star Christine McVie sold for £6.95 million (US$9.3 million).
The duplex, in the city’s affluent Belgravia neighborhood, has three bedrooms, two reception rooms, a rooftop deck and a row of three sash windows on each floor. The singer, keyboardist and songwriter, who died in 2022 at age 79, purchased the 2,674-square-foot home in 2014 while it was under development. She added her own input to the design, which includes a Shaker-style kitchen, herringbone flooring in the dining room, tall timber doors, marble fireplaces and tiled bathrooms.
Ellen DeGeneres
After relocating to the U.K., Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi unloaded a piece of their U.S. real estate portfolio, selling a two-bedroom villa in star-studded Montecito, California, for $5.2 million.
DeGeneres and de Rossi bought the home for $2.9 million in 2020. The single-story home spans 1,691 square feet and has an open floor plan for the common areas, an enclosed courtyard with a fire pit, wood-beamed ceilings, a chef’s kitchen and large cherry wood-framed windows.
