Carson Daly House: The Long Island Home Behind a Coast-to-Coast Commute

Carson Daly’s house is the reason he spent more than a decade flying across the country every few weeks. He bought a house in Manhasset, on Long Island, in 2013 for close to $6.5 million, a short train ride from the Manhattan studio where Today broadcasts. The Voice, which he hosted for thirty consecutive seasons, is produced in Los Angeles.

In 2026, that arrangement finally ended. Daly stepped down as host of The Voice ahead of its thirty-first season, and the reasons he gave were about the commute and about not wanting to be away from his family. The house on Long Island, in other words, won.

This guide covers that property, the claims about California homes that do not hold up, and where he lives now.

Who is Carson Daly?

Carson Daly is an American television host who became widely known for presenting Total Request Live on MTV in the late 1990s, then hosted NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly from 2002 until 2019. He has hosted The Voice since it began in 2011 and has been a feature anchor on Today since 2013.

He married Siri Pinter in 2015, and they have four children. The family’s location is central to his working life in a way it is not for most television hosts, because for thirteen years his two main jobs were on opposite coasts.

The Manhasset house

Daly bought in Manhasset, in Nassau County on Long Island’s North Shore, in 2013, paying close to $6.5 million. The timing is not a coincidence: 2013 is also the year he joined Today.

The house was built in 2005 and runs about 6,034 square feet across two storeys, on roughly 1.3 acres. That is a substantial family house on a proper piece of land, in a part of Long Island long favoured by people who work in Manhattan but do not want to live there.

The location choice is entirely practical. Manhasset is on the Long Island Rail Road with a direct run into Penn Station, which for someone appearing on a live morning programme is the difference between a manageable start and an impossible one. New York broadcasters have made the same calculation for generations, though some choose to stay in the city itself, as the account of Jimmy Fallon’s Manhattan penthouse shows.

The California claims

Several sites credit Daly with an $11 million home in Santa Monica, and some add a Brentwood mansion of more than 10,000 square feet with seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

Neither claim is supported. There is no property record, listing, or mainstream report connecting him to either address, and the sources are celebrity net-worth pages and social media accounts that publish house content at volume. The Brentwood description in particular reads as a generic template rather than a specific property.

It is entirely possible that he kept somewhere in Los Angeles during the years he was filming there. Working half the year in another city usually means having somewhere to stay. But a place to stay during production is not the same as a documented $11 million purchase, and this article will not treat an unsourced valuation as a fact.

The commute, and why it ended

For thirteen years Daly ran one of the more demanding schedules in American television: live morning news in New York, and a prime-time competition series produced in Los Angeles, with the two overlapping for months at a time.

In 2026, he stopped. He hosted his thirtieth consecutive season of The Voice and then declined to return for the thirty-first, with Keke Palmer taking over as host. He has been explicit that the decision came down to the strain of the cross-country schedule combined with his Today workload, and to not wanting to spend another year away from his family. He remains with the series as an executive producer, a role that does not require him to be on a Los Angeles stage.

For a property article, that is the decisive fact. When a host with two jobs on two coasts gives one of them up, the one he keeps tells you where he lives.

Where does Carson Daly live now?

Manhasset, New York, on Long Island.

The evidence is consistent and current. He bought the house in 2013, and there is no report of a sale or a listing. Today, his remaining on-air job, broadcasts from Manhattan, roughly forty minutes away. He has described himself as based in New York, with Los Angeles as the place he travelled to for production. And in 2026 he gave up the job that required the travelling, citing family and the commute.

What is not documented is anything about the property’s current value, or whether he retains any California residence. Those details have never been published by anyone with access to them.

The broader pattern is one this site sees often: a television career that begins in Los Angeles and ends up anchored in New York, with the property record following a few years behind. Julianne Hough’s move east followed a similar shape, though she sold her Los Angeles house rather than simply flying less.

What the record actually supports

One documented purchase, in 2013, at close to $6.5 million, in a commuter town on Long Island. No confirmed California property. A thirteen-year commute that ended in 2026 by choice.

That is a shorter list than the celebrity property sites offer, and it has the advantage of being true. Where a specific figure or a second mansion appears without a date, a price, and a record behind it, it is an estimate dressed as reporting.

Sources

• Closer Weekly on the Manhasset house, its 2013 purchase at close to $6.5 million, and its size and setting.
• TODAY for his roles on Today and The Voice and his New York base.
• TV Insider and Hello! on his 2026 departure as host, the reasons he gave, and his continuing role as executive producer.