Chris Pratt House: The Two Homes He Demolished and Where He Lives Now

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger have bought two Los Angeles houses and demolished both of them. The first, a 1995 hillside property in Pacific Palisades bought for $15.6 million in 2018, was torn down and replaced with a roughly 13,000-square-foot mansion over about three years. The second, bought off-market in 2023 for $12.5 million in Brentwood, was a 1950 house by the modernist architect Craig Ellwood, and knocking it down in 2024 produced a genuine architectural controversy.

Neither project has gone entirely to plan. The Palisades house they built has been on and off the market five times since July 2023, starting at $32 million and relisted in August 2026 at $19,995,000 without selling. The Brentwood replacement is still under construction.

In the meantime, the couple has been living in Montecito, renting a house owned by Katy Perry.

This guide covers all of it.

Chris Pratt’s properties at a glance

Who is Chris Pratt?

Chris Pratt is an American actor, known first for Parks and Recreation and then for leading roles in Guardians of the Galaxy, the Jurassic World films, and The Lego Movie. He married Katherine Schwarzenegger, an author and the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, in 2019, and they have three children together.

That family connection is directly relevant to the property story. Maria Shriver lives across the street from the Brentwood site, which is part of why the couple wanted that particular parcel and part of why critics argued they could have bought elsewhere.

The Pacific Palisades house they built and cannot sell

Pratt bought the Palisades property in June 2018 for $15,601,500. The house on it dated from 1995. Rather than renovate, he and Schwarzenegger demolished it and undertook a ground-up rebuild that took roughly three years.

The finished house has six bedrooms and twelve bathrooms across about 12,900 square feet. It appeared on the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, so parts of it are unusually well documented for a private residence.

Selling it has been the problem. They listed it in July 2023 at $32 million. It came down to $25.5 million, and it has now been on the market five separate times. In August 2026, it was relisted at $19,995,000, some $12 million below the opening ask and only around $4.4 million above what Pratt paid for the original property in 2018, before any of the construction costs are counted.

No sale has been reported. The gap between $32 million and $20 million over three years is a straightforward illustration of what happens when a very large custom house meets a thin buyer pool at the top of a specific neighbourhood. Other Palisades rebuilds, including Miles Teller’s, have found the same market difficult.

The Brentwood demolition

In 2023, the couple bought a Brentwood property off-market for $12.5 million. The house on it was the Zimmerman House, completed in 1950 by Craig Ellwood, one of the defining architects of Los Angeles mid-century modernism, with landscaping by Garrett Eckbo, an equally significant figure in modernist landscape design.

They demolished it in 2024, along with the original landscaping. The reaction from the architecture world was severe. Dwell, ARTnews, and Fortune all covered the backlash, and preservationists made the point that a 74-year-old house by a canonical architect had been removed from the city permanently. The house carried no landmark protection that would have prevented it, which is why the demolition was lawful, and that absence of protection was itself much of the argument: California has a large stock of significant mid-century houses in private hands and very little that obliges owners to keep them. The same debate recurs whenever a modernist house changes hands, as it did around the Walter Netsch house in Chicago.

Two defences have been offered on the couple’s behalf, and both are worth stating fairly. They bought the property privately rather than outbidding a preservation buyer at auction, and they were not obliged by any law to keep the building. Neither answers the criticism, which was about the loss rather than the legality.

What they are building instead

The replacement is a modern farmhouse of roughly 15,000 square feet, designed by the architect Ken Ungar. It is under construction on the site and was not complete at the time of writing.

At 15,000 square feet, it is considerably larger than the Ellwood house it replaces, and larger again than the 12,900-square-foot Palisades house they are trying to sell. Whatever else the couple has been doing, they have not been downsizing.

Where does Chris Pratt live now?

In Montecito, California, in a rented house, while the Brentwood project is finished.

The arrangement was first reported in June 2025, and the couple was still posting from inside the property in the summer of 2026. The house belongs to Katy Perry, and it comes with its own history: Perry was involved in a long-running legal dispute over its purchase with the previous owner, Carl Westcott, which concluded with a judgment in her favour over lost rental income.

This is a temporary situation by design. They still own the Palisades house, which has not sold, and they own the Brentwood site, which is not finished. Montecito is the gap between the two. It is also, increasingly, where Los Angeles families go when they want distance from the city, a shift visible in coverage of Oprah Winfrey’s estate and the community that has grown around it.

Once the Brentwood house is completed, that is where the family is expected to live. Until then, the accurate statement is that they are renting in Montecito and own two Los Angeles properties, neither of which they are currently living in.

Sources

• The Real Deal on the August 2026 relisting at $19,995,000, the listing history since 2023, and the Montecito rental.
• Palisades News on the 2018 purchase price, the rebuild, and the property’s size.
• Dwell and ARTnews on the demolition of the Craig Ellwood house, the Garrett Eckbo landscaping, and the reaction.
• Robb Report on the $12.5 million Brentwood purchase and the new house planned for the site.