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Harry's houses: inside Styles' property portfolio on his 30th birthday

Harry Styles is celebrating his 30th birthday on February 1 2024 and has plenty of party pads to take his pick from if he plans to celebrate at home.

The Worcestershire-born singer-songwriter, actor and model shot to fame aged just 16 as a member of One Direction. He began amassing his impressive property collection during his boy band days, and has grown it alongside his breakout solo career and a foray into acting.

Styles' Gucci-filled two-year-long Love on Tour is reported by Billboard Boxscore to have sold five million tickets and grossed $617.3 million (£526. million).

He is believed to be the UK's richest star aged 30 and under, worth £175 million, according to the 2023 Heat Rich List.

Much of his net worth is invested in properties, in both London and America, which presumably offer plenty of wardrobe space for the stylish star's collection of gauzy shirts and sequinned jumpsuits.

Although the singer has been very private about his personal taste in home decor, he did grace the cover of Better Homes and Gardens to launch his 2020 album, Harry's House.

Here's a timeline of Harry's many houses.

North London, 2012

Styles bought his first home in 2012 for £2.95 million at the age of just 18, opting for a four-bedroom home in an exclusive residential road.

One Direction, the five-piece boy band Styles joined on X Factor, shot to global fame and signed a £2 million record deal with Simon Cowell's record label in late 2010.

He made several home improvements, including adding a drinking den known as Harry’s Bar, where he could relax and entertain friends in privacy.

Los Angeles, 2016

The British singer bought a his first US property in Los Angeles in 2016, the year that One Direction went on permanent hiatus.

He spent £3.3 million on the three-bedroom, five-bathroom pad in West Hollywood overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Downtown Los Angeles.

Showstopper features included a cinema, gym, swimming pool, and roof terrace with baseball score board.

But he put it back on the market for the same price in 2017, having been jet-setting between the US and the UK following the release of his self-titled debut album in 2017 and a world tour.

In 2018 he dropped the asking price to £5.9 million in a bid to sell up in California.

Styles sold it at a loss for £2.6 million in 2016 to designer duo Sam Gnatovich and Alexi Rennalls of SIMO design, who demolished the house, replacing it with the larger mansion which stands today.

The couple sold the house to Warner Records CEO Aaron Bay-Schuck for £9m in 2019, who in turn sold the house to the pop star Lizzo for £12.3 million in 2022.

New York, 2017

With his solo career going supersonic in 2017 and his acting debut in Dunkirk, Styles is rumoured to have bought a £6.85 million condominium in New York's Tribeca neighbourhood.

US publication Curbed revealed that the three-bedroom property was purchased by an LLC named Hxnyc Trust, which listed the same name as Styles's personal assistant as the trustee on the deed.

Situated in a converted warehouse, the development offers a gym, pool, spa and hammam, and a roof terrace, which Styles could share with fellow celebrity residents including Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, and Jennifer Lawrence.

There is no information on any personal touches Styles may have added to his Manhattan pied-à-terre, but when it was sold it had exposed beams and brass finishes in keeping with its industrial history.

North London, 2019

Styles paid more than £8 million for a five-bedroom Georgian semi close to his original north London purchase in 2019. It went on the market for £10 million in the autumn of 2018.

One local estate agent suggested Styles could be planning to let his first house and move into the more spacious property.

“It’s a very exclusive, very prestigious address, quite quiet but maybe that’s what the joy of somewhere like that is,” James Morton of Dexters estate agents told Homes & Property at the time.

“Somewhere to escape to, but still very convenient for getting in and out of the centre of London.”

The white stucco, Grade II-listed property, features panelled doors and original fanlights. There is also a garage and private outside parking.

At sale it was decorated in a faux Regency style, with chandeliers, ornate cornicing and curtain swags at the windows. The grand sitting room, which leads into a dining room, boasts floor-to-ceiling windows.

A curved staircase leads to the first-floor bedrooms, while there is a screening room and games room in the basement.

North London, 2020

In 2020, Styles paid just over £4 million for a third house in the north London enclave, bringing his total investment in the area to more than £15 million.

The latest purchase, revealed in Land Registry documents, gave the singer-songwriter, actor and model the opportunity to create a trophy mansion that could be his long-term London base.

The a stucco-fronted early 18th-century villa was not advertised on the open market.

Local agent Trevor Abrahmsohn of Glentree Estates said he believed Styles’s purchase was about restoring a historic house to its original glory.

“He bought a Grade II listed property, which once upon a time was a detached mansion and had bought the left-hand semi-detached house," said Abrahmsohn.

"I think by buying the other half of the house he’s just completing the picture and presumably restoring the house to the mansion that it once was."

A major overhaul of the properties would cost between £300 and £500-a-square foot and run to many millions of pounds, according to Mr Abrahmsohn, bringing total expenditure close to £20 million.

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