Where Does Serena Williams Live? Here are Her Homes in Florida, California, and Paris

She’s played on tennis courts around the world, but where does Serena Williams live when she’s not competing? The champion, who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals, has a few pieces of real estate to choose from.

To outfit one of her homes, Serena enlisted the help of her sister, fellow tennis champ and interior designer Venus Williams. “You have to know your lane. I’m really good at playing tennis; I’m not as good at interiors. But I was able to learn through just watching Venus,” Serena said when AD visited the Florida pad in 2021

Over the course of three years, the duo collaborated on the total renovation of the 14,500-square-foot Spanish Mediterranean–style home that Serena purchased in 2017. One space with particular significance is the former foyer, which has since been transformed into a creative art sanctuary of sorts. “When you walk in, it’s like walking into an art gallery,” Serena said. “That’s my favorite part of the house. It’s so unique. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Ahead, AD tallies up the different properties Serena has added to her real estate portfolio.

Co-owned Florida dwelling

In 1998, at the beginning of their storied careers, Serena and Venus purchased a one-acre lot in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, for $525,000. They went on to spend two years custom-building a 8,500-square-foot house that featured six bedrooms, including a main suite for each sister, as well as multiple lounge areas, a home theater, an eat-in kitchen, and a resort-style backyard complete with pool, spa, gazebo, and private lake. They sold off the property, located in the BallenIsles Country Club gated community, in early 2019 for $2.3 million.

Manhattan apartment

In 2005 the sisters added another joint property to their portfolios: a 1,800-square-foot loft apartment in Midtown Manhattan for which they paid about $1.3 million. Two years later Venus told New York that they had not yet furnished the space, which had oak floors, 12-foot ceilings, and a long, open layout. Venus and Serena sold the apartment in 2015 for $2.1 million. It’s unclear if the tennis stars ever truly lived there; at the time it was photographed empty and configured as a one-bedroom, but the listing description noted it could be converted into a two- or three-bedroom unit.

Bel Air estate

Originally purchased in 2006 for a little over $6.6 million, Serena’s 2.7-acre Bel-Air estate spanned approximately 6,100 square feet, featuring six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and lush green gardens. While there was no tennis court, the Mediterranean-style property did come equipped with a hair and makeup salon, a dressing room in the main suite, and a poolside loggia. In 2019 she sold the home for $8.1 million after originally listing it for nearly $12 million.

Parisian pied-à-terre

When playing the French Open is a part of your job, it helps to have a Paris outpost to call home. In 2007, Serena closed on a two-bedroom pied-à-terre in the French capital’s 7th arrondissement. “I really fell in love with Paris six years ago,” Serena told USA Today in 2013. Though it’s unclear how much she paid for her Paris apartment, she gave fans a quick tour of the home in 2016, calling out the neutral palette of gray floors and black doors and the renovation work she completed elsewhere: “I redid the whole kitchen to make a fun space,” she said. “This is the office, which is perpendicular to the kitchen, which is pretty cool.”