Cameron Diaz, born in San Diego in 1972, spent two decades as one of Hollywood’s most bankable actresses — The Mask, There’s Something About Mary, Charlie’s Angels — before stepping away from the spotlight in 2018. She came back with the Netflix action comedy Back in Action in January 2025, followed it with Jonah Hill’s Outcome opposite Keanu Reeves on Apple TV+ in April 2026, and is voicing Princess Fiona again in Shrek 5, now due in June 2027. But while she was away from screens, she was quietly building one of the more interesting celebrity real estate portfolios on the West Coast.
The property that keeps her name in real estate headlines is a modern farmhouse compound in Beverly Hills’ Benedict Canyon that she and her husband, Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden, put up for sale in July 2024. It never found a buyer, and it is no longer the house the family calls home.
That listing is what brought renewed attention to Cameron Diaz’s house, and it’s worth examining in full — the property itself, what makes it distinctive, and where it fits inside a portfolio that stretches from Los Angeles to Montecito to Manhattan.
Where Cameron Diaz Lives Now
The short answer is Montecito. The six-bedroom estate the couple bought there in 2022 has become the family’s main home, according to Realtor.com’s reporting in May 2026, with Benedict Canyon described as a Los Angeles base for work rather than the place they live day to day.
The family also grew again that month. On 4 May 2026, Diaz and Madden announced the birth of a son, Nautas, who joins Raddix, born in 2019, and Cardinal, born in 2024. As with the older two, they have kept photos of him private.
Miami came close to entering the picture. In late December 2025 the couple toured a Pinecrest estate belonging to NBA forward Jeff Green, listed at about $16.4 million, but TMZ reported that they never made an offer. Green sold the house in April 2026 for $15.5 million to an undisclosed buyer.
The Benedict Canyon House: Location and History
The property sits in Benedict Canyon, in the Beverly Hills Post Office (BHPO) area within the 90210 zip code. BHPO is distinct from the flat, grid-based streets of central Beverly Hills — it occupies the canyon hills above the city and draws residents who prioritize scale, privacy, and distance from public view. Neighbors in the canyon have included Kate Upton, Justin Verlander, and Gene Simmons.
The house as it stands today is a relatively new creation. Public sale records show the developer ANR Signature Collection acquired the site in December 2018 for $3.8 million, when it held a much smaller 1949 house, and rebuilt it as the farmhouse compound. ANR listed the finished estate in August 2020 at $14.695 million, and Diaz and Madden paid that full asking price, closing on 14 October 2020 — about two months after it hit the market.
The timing lined up with a new phase of family life: the couple had married in January 2015, and Raddix was born in December 2019.
The Benedict Canyon Property: By the Numbers
| Detail | Spec |
|---|---|
| Style | Modern farmhouse compound |
| Bedrooms | 7 |
| Bathrooms | 8.5 |
| Living space | 9,655 sq ft (per the 2024 listing) |
| Lot size | About 1.7 acres |
| Purchase price (Oct 2020) | $14.695 million |
| Asking price (Jul 2024) | $17.8 million |
| Reduced price (May 2025) | About $16.5 million |
| Current status | Off the market, unsold |
The word “compound” is used deliberately. This isn’t just a large house — it’s a self-contained private estate with a mansion-sized main residence and a separate guesthouse, each designed as a custom architectural farmhouse. The guesthouse can work as a full home office or as independent quarters for extended family and guests. A three-car garage and walking paths through the gardens complete the grounds.
The Design: ANR Signature Collection and the Modern Farmhouse
ANR Signature Collection is a high-end design and development firm whose work appears in the portfolios of other celebrity clients, including Kylie Jenner and Kerry Washington. It is known for properties that look and feel custom-built rather than speculative, and the modern farmhouse aesthetic suits the canyon setting.
At this price point, the farmhouse elements are structural — exposed wood beams, pitched rooflines, simple window shapes, and board-and-batten detailing — while the modern side shows up in the open floor plan, large-format glass, and restrained ornamentation. The interiors lean heavily into natural materials: stone, wood, and abundant sunlight through large windows. High, beamed, and coffered ceilings run throughout, and French doors and fireplaces appear in nearly every room.
Interior Highlights
No filmed house tour of any of Diaz’s homes has ever been published, so the detail here comes from the 2024 listing. The closest she has come to showing the inside of a family home is a sunlit home office glimpsed during a Vanity Fair video call in January 2025.
The Great Room and Living Spaces
The double-height great room is light, bright, and white — but the house is anything but monochromatic. The dining room features moody, textured copper walls and built-in dark wood cabinetry, and the home office follows a similarly rich, dark palette. These contrasts give the home depth and prevent the flat, clinical feel that plagues many contemporary builds.
The main living area combines a living room, dining room, and kitchen in an open plan. Three large sofas surround a glass coffee table, with a fireplace anchoring the room and a large piece of modern art above it. On either side, folding double doors open directly into the garden — a design choice that erases the boundary between interior and exterior.
The Kitchen
Brass fixtures. High-contrast marble countertops and backsplash that create a continuous visual surface. Globe-style light fixtures above the island. Wainscoting along the white walls. The marble is used not just functionally but as a design element that ties the kitchen to the broader material story of the house.
A wine cupboard with glass doors sits next to the dining room, which connects to Diaz’s own interest in the wine business. She co-founded Avaline, a clean wine brand, in 2020.
The Primary Suite
The entire second-floor wing is devoted to the primary suite: a fireplace, sitting area, dressing area with double closets, and double bathrooms. Two of the seven bedrooms are considered primary suites in their own right, and the listing noted that the theater room with its attached bathroom could be converted into an eighth bedroom — the kind of built-in flexibility that suits a growing family.
The Home Theater
Rather than a formal, tiered screening room, the theater is set up like a plush lounge, which makes it usable for everyday family life, not just movie nights.
Grounds and Outdoor Spaces
The outdoor areas are a particular strength of the property. The pool has waterfalls and is childproofed behind a wrought-iron fence that the planting largely hides — a practical detail that doesn’t sacrifice looks.
The landscape includes walking paths through hillside gardens, rolling lawns, and shaded conversation areas. Mature sycamores around the pool and patio give a relatively new build an established, lived-in character that’s hard to manufacture. Multiple seating areas and terraces extend the living space outdoors, and a fire pit creates a gathering point on cooler evenings. The same planting does double duty as a screen: the driveway curves up through the grounds so that the house isn’t visible from the road.
Why the Benedict Canyon House Went on the Market
The couple listed the estate in July 2024 for $17.8 million. According to a source who spoke to People magazine, the decision was practical rather than dramatic: “They have multiple residences in Los Angeles and are choosing to let go of the Benedict property so that they can take residency at another one of their homes.”
By May 2025, with no buyer secured, the price was cut by about $1.3 million to roughly $16.5 million. The listing was later withdrawn without a sale, and Redfin shows the property off the market as of September 2026, with no sale recorded since the couple bought it. Even the reduced ask was well above the 2020 purchase price, but the long run without a buyer suggests the ultra-luxury Beverly Hills segment has cooled compared to its 2020–2022 peak.
The timing of the listing was notable for another reason: Nicole Richie and Joel Madden — Benji’s twin brother and his wife — listed their own Beverly Hills mansion just days later, on 12 July 2024. The twin brothers both married into Hollywood and both own homes in the same area. Richie and Joel’s property eventually sold for $10.18 million in May 2025, well below its $12.95 million asking price, which is a useful data point for anyone watching the high-end Beverly Hills market.
The Montecito Mansion: The Family’s Main Home
The couple bought their Montecito estate in May 2022 for $12.67 million — a recently remodeled property that pairs traditional Mediterranean architecture with contemporary finishes.
The three-story house spans about 11,000 square feet, with six en-suite bedrooms, seven full and three half bathrooms, and peekaboo ocean views from a sloped site of about 1.75 acres in the gated Ennisbrook enclave. Inside are a serpentine staircase, a gallery, a double-height foyer topped by a cupola, marble throughout, and wide-plank wood floors, while the landscaped grounds include waterfalls cascading over boulders.
Montecito has become the West Coast equivalent of Greenwich, Connecticut for celebrities who want ocean proximity without the chaos of Los Angeles. Their neighbors in town include Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Ellen DeGeneres, and Rob Lowe. Realtor.com’s coverage suggests privacy is the point: the estate gives the family a seclusion the Beverly Hills compound, for all its planting, never quite did.
The Rest of Her Real Estate Portfolio
Coldwater Canyon Estate, Beverly Hills (2010)
Before Benedict Canyon, Diaz’s main Los Angeles home was in the gated Hidden Valley Estates community off Coldwater Canyon. She bought it from actress Candice Bergen in June 2010 for about $9.45 million, and it was where she and Madden lived as newlyweds. No sale of the property has been reported since the couple moved.
Hollywood Hills Cottage (Sold to Ariana Grande)
Diaz bought a small Hollywood Hills house in 2004 for $1.8 million, next door to a home she had owned since 2001 — a common buffer strategy among privacy-conscious buyers in the hills. The 1950 house has about 1,800 square feet, two bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, sitting on a half-acre lot at the end of a cul-de-sac behind hedges and trees.
Diaz renovated it over the years — new roof, new windows, an enlarged kitchen, an added powder room, and remodeled bathrooms. In 2022 she sold it for about $4.9 million to Ariana Grande and her then-husband Dalton Gomez, turning the pop star into her next-door neighbor. Diaz and Madden still own the house next door.
New York City: Walker Tower and the West Village
In late 2013, Diaz paid about $9.52 million for a condo in Walker Tower, the converted 1929 Art Deco telephone building in Chelsea. The 3,022-square-foot unit has three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, and a separate office, and the couple has used it as their East Coast base.
It replaced a smaller West Village apartment she had bought in 2008 and gutted, with interiors by designer Kelly Wearstler. She listed that one in 2015, shortly after her wedding, and it sold for $4.25 million within 47 days.
The Manhattan home comes with one firm rule. On The Drew Barrymore Show in April 2026, Diaz told her longtime friend Drew Barrymore that shoes worn on New York streets never cross her threshold — guests who forget are asked to change before they come in.
The House From The Holiday Isn’t Hers
Plenty of people searching for Cameron Diaz’s house are really looking for Amanda’s — the Los Angeles mansion her character swaps for an English cottage in Nancy Meyers’ 2006 film The Holiday. Diaz never owned either one.
The mansion is a real house: the 1928 home that architect Wallace Neff designed for himself in San Marino, near Pasadena. It is a private residence, and it came up for sale in 2018 with an asking price of $11.8 million. The Surrey cottage never existed as a home at all — the production built its exterior from scratch in a field outside the village of Shere.
Her Homes at a Glance
| Property | Bought | Price | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollywood Hills house | 2001 | Not reported | Still owned |
| Hollywood Hills cottage | 2004 | $1.8M | Sold to Ariana Grande, 2022, ~$4.9M |
| West Village condo, NYC | 2008 | Not reported | Sold 2015, $4.25M |
| Coldwater Canyon estate | 2010 | ~$9.45M | No sale reported |
| Walker Tower condo, NYC | 2013 | ~$9.52M | No sale reported |
| Benedict Canyon farmhouse | 2020 | $14.695M | Listed 2024, withdrawn, unsold |
| Montecito estate | 2022 | $12.67M | Main family home |
What the Portfolio Says About Her
Two habits stand out. The first is holding for the long term: the Hollywood Hills cottage went from $1.8 million to about $4.9 million over 18 years, and she still owns the house she bought there in 2001. The second is a willingness to let go when a property stops fitting the family, as she did with the West Village apartment after her wedding and with Benedict Canyon once Montecito became home — even when that means waiting a long time for the right price. For scale, Celebrity Net Worth puts her fortune at around $140 million, an outside estimate rather than a disclosed figure.
For anyone tracking Cameron Diaz’s house history, the Benedict Canyon farmhouse is still the property to watch. Whether it returns to the market or becomes a permanent Los Angeles base, what happens to it next will say a lot about where the family, now five strong, sees itself living.
Sources
- Public sale history for the Benedict Canyon property (Redfin), checked September 2026
- Celebrity Net Worth — Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden spend $14.7 million on Beverly Hills spread
- Realtor.com via Yahoo Finance — Diaz and Madden cut $1.3 million off their Beverly Hills home (2025)
- Yahoo — Inside Cameron Diaz’s Montecito mansion (May 2026)
- CNN — Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden welcome third child (4 May 2026)
- TMZ — Cameron Diaz mansion hunting in Miami area (23 Jan 2026)
- The Real Deal — Jeff Green sells Pinecrest mansion (8 Apr 2026)
- SFGate — Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden score a Montecito mansion for $12.7M (2022)
- HELLO! — Ariana Grande buys Cameron Diaz’s Hollywood Hills home (June 2022)
- Zillow — Cameron Diaz buys Candice Bergen’s Beverly Hills home (2010)
- Forbes / Trulia — Cameron Diaz drops $9 million on New York City condo (Dec 2013)
- 6sqft — Cameron Diaz unloads her $4.25M West Village pad (2015)
- Variety — Shrek 5 release date delayed to June 2027
- Apple TV+ — Outcome (April 2026)
- Fox News — Cameron Diaz reveals strict house rule (11 Apr 2026)
- HELLO! — Cameron Diaz shares a look inside her family home (Jan 2025)
- CNBC — The mansion from The Holiday is for sale for $11.8 million (May 2018)
- Country & Town House — Where is The Holiday filmed?
- Celebrity Net Worth — Cameron Diaz net worth
