David Beador is known to television audiences as the construction executive who appeared on The Real Housewives of Orange County alongside his then-wife, Shannon Beador. His property history, though, is its own story: a run of Newport Beach, California homes bought, listed, and traded over roughly a decade. It includes a 13,300-square-foot Crystal Cove mansion that took years and several price cuts to sell, a Balboa Peninsula Point house he listed about four months after buying it — a listing his second wife, Lesley, publicly pushed back on for how the press framed it — and an $11.45 million bayfront property with a private dock.
This guide sets out what mainstream reporting and property records actually establish about each of those homes, keeping purchase prices, asking prices, and sale prices separate rather than blending them into one number. It also addresses the question most readers arrive with — where he lives today — and says plainly where the public record runs out instead of filling the gap with guesswork.
At a glance
| Property | Location | Reported figures | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Cove estate, about 13,300 sq ft | Newport Beach, California | Listed at $16 million, cut to $13.5 million, then $10.898 million; sold for $9.05 million | Former home, sold in 2016 during his marriage to Shannon Beador |
| Peninsula Point house, 3,563 sq ft, built 2013 | Balboa Peninsula Point, Newport Beach | Purchased April 2024 for $6.595 million; listed August 2024 at $6.895 million | Bought and listed in the same year; the outcome of that listing has not been clearly reported |
| Bayfront home, 3,877 sq ft, private dock | Peninsula Point area, Newport Beach | Purchased August 1, 2024 for $11.45 million | His most recent documented purchase |
Who is David Beador?
David Beador is the founder and owner of Beador Construction, a contracting firm based in Corona, California. He is not a performer by trade, and his public profile came from television rather than his business: he appeared on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County as the husband of cast member Shannon Storms Beador, and the couple’s marriage and its collapse became a running storyline on the show across seasons 9 through 12.
The Beadors married in September 2000, separated in October 2017 after 17 years together, and finalized their divorce in 2019 following a settlement that included spousal support and a division of property. Beador has said publicly, including in an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, that joining the show was Shannon’s attempt to save their marriage — an effort that ultimately didn’t hold.
He remarried in October 2020 to Lesley Cook, and the couple welcomed a daughter, Anna Love, the following year. That second marriage has been considerably more turbulent in public than the first: it has produced multiple divorce filings from both sides since 2022 — filed, dismissed, and refiled on several occasions, including mutual restraining-order petitions in 2024 — with the most recent filing reported in February 2026. That pattern matters here mainly because it’s part of why his homes keep resurfacing in the press; the marital details themselves are covered more fully elsewhere and aren’t the focus of this property record.
For readers tracking the wider Bravo property map, the same pattern of homes doubling as television backdrops shows up elsewhere in the franchise, including Erika Jayne’s Los Angeles house.
The Crystal Cove estate he shared with Shannon Beador
The property most viewers associate with David Beador is the Crystal Cove mansion in Newport Beach that featured in Shannon Beador’s early seasons on the show. Reported at roughly 13,300 square feet, it was the kind of house that made the couple’s finances a subject of on-screen conversation.
Its sale history is a useful lesson in the difference between an asking price and a sale price. The home was first listed at $16 million while Shannon was in her first season on the series. It was then reduced to $13.5 million, and later to $10.898 million, before selling in 2016 for $9.05 million. In other words, the figure the house actually fetched was a little more than half the number it was originally marketed at.
That sale predates the couple’s separation, and the estate has not been a Beador residence for close to a decade. It should not be treated as a current property.
The Peninsula Point house he bought and quickly listed
In August 2024, the Orange County Register reported on a Newport Beach house that David Beador had put on the market only about four months after buying it. Property records cited in that reporting show he and Lesley purchased the home in April 2024 for $6.595 million, then listed it in August 2024 with an asking price of $6.895 million — roughly $300,000 above what they had paid.
The house sits in the Balboa Peninsula Point neighborhood, one row of homes back from the beach. Built in 2013, it runs three levels across about 3,563 square feet, with four bedrooms and five bathrooms (some coverage lists it as 4.5 baths). It features sliding glass pocket doors that open the interior to a courtyard, a rooftop deck reached from a third-floor loft, beamed ceilings, board-and-batten walls, and a kitchen with a large center island. It’s a well-built modern beach house rather than a gated estate — a noticeable change of scale from the Crystal Cove years.
Co-listing agent Gio Helou of The Oppenheim Group, known to viewers of Netflix’s Selling the OC, told the Orange County Register that the couple wanted “to make the move to a waterfront property,” adding that jumping “from street to street” toward the water is a common pattern among Newport Beach buyers. That explanation lines up with what the records show next: the couple had already closed on a bayfront home before this listing went live.
The listing also became a small story in its own right. When the Orange County Register’s coverage referred to David as an “RHOC ex-husband” in its headline, Lesley posted to her Instagram Story on August 19, 2024, calling the framing disrespectful and crossing out the phrase to insert her own name instead, writing: “Let’s start writing more respectful articles. I’ll help.” It’s a minor footnote next to the property numbers, but it’s a real, documented reaction to how the sale was covered, not commentary on the sale itself.
What has not been clearly established in reliable reporting is what happened to the listing after that. An asking price is not a sale, and no confirmed sale figure for this property has been widely reported, so it would be wrong to say the home sold, or to quote $6.895 million as anything other than what the owners were asking.
The $11.45 million bayfront home
The reason for that quick listing became clearer in the same reporting. Records showed the couple had bought a second Newport Beach property on August 1, 2024, in the same neighborhood, for $11.45 million. That home is about 3,877 square feet and, unlike the previous house, sits directly on the bay with a private dock, where the sound of breaking waves reportedly carries through the interior.
Waterfront frontage is what accounts for the price gap. The bayfront home is only a few hundred square feet larger than the one they listed, yet cost close to $4.9 million more, because in Newport Beach the dock and the water access carry much of the value rather than the floor area.
This purchase is the most recent property transaction of his that has been documented in mainstream reporting. It’s worth noting that this is a recorded purchase, which is a different claim from saying it is his residence today.
Where does David Beador live now?
The honest answer is that public reporting establishes where he bought, not where he sleeps tonight. The strongest available evidence is the August 2024 purchase of the $11.45 million bayfront home in Newport Beach, and there is no reliable, more recent report that he has sold it or moved away from the area. On that basis, Newport Beach in Orange County, California is the location supported by the record.
Two caveats matter. First, the marriage to Lesley has produced a long, back-and-forth series of divorce filings — five by early 2026, according to reporting from outlets including TMZ — several of which were filed and then dismissed after the couple reconciled, with the most recent filing reported in February 2026. Divorce and reconciliation cycles like this frequently change who occupies a jointly bought home, and none of it has been resolved in public in a way that would let anyone state his current living arrangement with confidence.
Second, some celebrity property blogs describe him as living in Newport Coast, a separate and distinct area from the Balboa Peninsula homes documented in property records. That claim doesn’t appear to be supported by the same standard of evidence, and it should be treated as unverified.
So: Newport Beach is well supported as the area, the bayfront home is well supported as a 2024 purchase, and any more precise statement about his current residence goes beyond what the public record shows.
Conclusion
Taken together, the pattern is one of an experienced builder treating homes as working assets. The Crystal Cove estate was carried for years and eventually sold well under its opening price. The Peninsula Point house was bought and listed within a single year, reportedly to help fund a move to the water. The bayfront home was acquired at more than double the price of the house that appears to have prompted the sale. For a construction executive, that kind of churn reads closer to ordinary buy-and-upgrade behavior than to anything unusual.
It also explains why so much of the coverage is provisional. Homes bought and listed this quickly rarely produce a tidy closing story, and in this case, the reporting stops before the ending.
Sources
- Orange County Register, “Newport Beach home of ‘RHOC’ ex-husband David Beador lists for $6.9 million” (August 19, 2024), reporting on the 2024 listing, the agent’s comments, and property records for both 2024 purchases.
- Reality Tea on the 2016 sale of the Crystal Cove mansion and its earlier asking prices.
- Reality Tea on the 2019 divorce settlement with Shannon Beador.
- All About The Real Housewives on Lesley Beador’s Instagram Story response to coverage of the listing.
- TMZ on the February 2026 divorce filing.
