David Ortiz has owned two homes that generated serious coverage, and he has sold both. The first was a Weston, Massachusetts mansion built around his Red Sox career, complete with a bedroom mocked up as Fenway Park. It took more than two years to sell and eventually went for close to half its original asking price. The second was a house he built in Pinecrest, outside Miami, which sold in 2023 for $10.55 million and set the suburb’s record.
Those two sales run in opposite directions, and together they make his property record more interesting than most.
This guide covers what each home was, what the numbers actually were, the difference between what he asked and what he got, and what is and is not known about where Big Papi lives now that both houses belong to somebody else.
Properties at a glance
| Property | Location | Key figures | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Six-bedroom, seven-bathroom mansion on about 2 acres | 16 Driftwood Lane, Weston, Massachusetts | Bought for $4.5 million in 2007; listed at $6.3 million in 2019; sold for $3.5 million in 2021 | Sold |
| House of about 10,200 sq ft, five bedrooms, eight bathrooms | Pinecrest, Florida | Land bought for $1.5 million in 2016; house built 2019; listed at $12.5 million; sold for $10.55 million in 2023 | Sold at a Pinecrest record price |
| Three-bedroom condominium at ORA by Casa Tua, Brickell | 1210 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida | Unit priced in the $3.35–$3.75 million range; building scheduled for completion in 2029 | Bought off-plan, not yet built |
Who is David Ortiz?
David Ortiz, universally known as Big Papi, is a Dominican former Major League Baseball designated hitter who spent fourteen seasons with the Boston Red Sox. He was central to the teams that won the World Series in 2004, 2007, and 2013, ending an 86-year drought with the first of those, and he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022.
He was born and raised in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and has kept close ties there throughout and after his career, including his charitable foundation. In June 2019, he was shot in a bar in Santo Domingo and was flown to Boston for treatment, an event that made international news, and that is relevant here only in that it underlines how much time he continues to spend in his home country.
His property history maps neatly onto those two poles: the Boston suburbs during his playing years, and South Florida afterwards.
The Weston mansion, and how far the price fell
Weston is one of the wealthiest towns in Massachusetts and a standard address for Red Sox players. Ortiz and his wife Tiffany bought the property at 16 Driftwood Lane in March 2007, while it was still semi-unfinished, for $4.5 million. A few months later that same year, the Red Sox won the World Series, and Ortiz came to consider the house something of a good luck charm — reason enough, apparently, to stay for the next twelve years and fill the place with baseball memorabilia along the way.
The house sat on about 2 acres and had six bedrooms and seven bathrooms. Its floor area is reported inconsistently: 8,100 square feet in the original 2019 listing coverage, later cited as 8,586 square feet in retrospective pieces, and that gap has never been reconciled.
A house built around a baseball career
What made it distinctive was the theming. One bedroom was built as a scale evocation of Fenway Park, with the Green Monster painted across a wall. There was a trophy room attached to a three-car garage — which also housed a personal barbershop, chair and all — plus his-and-hers closets and a steam shower off the master suite, and a basement reportedly built with input from architects who had worked on Fenway itself. It was a house that only made complete sense while its owner played for the Red Sox.
Why Ortiz decided to sell
By 2019, Ortiz was ready to move on. He told Boston Magazine at the time that it was “time to move on and let another family enjoy it,” and his listing agent said the family was looking to downsize into a full-service Boston building with a doorman. That stated motive matters, because what happened next wasn’t really about the family outgrowing the house — it was about the house outliving its market.
From $6.3 million to $3.5 million
He listed it in February 2019 at $6.3 million. It came back in 2020 at $5.495 million, was cut again to $4.025 million by that October, and finally sold on 31 March 2021 for $3.5 million, to buyers named in the Boston Globe‘s coverage. That is a closing price about 44 per cent below the original ask, over a marketing period of more than two years — and, notably, roughly $1 million below what Ortiz had paid for the house back in 2007. In 2020 he also held an estate sale of memorabilia and household items from the property.
The lesson is a familiar one in celebrity real estate. Highly personalised features narrow the buyer pool rather than widening it, and the next owner has to price in undoing them. The affluent Boston suburbs generally hold value well, as sales such as the Brookline estate of Paul Edgerley show, so the discount here reflects the house rather than the market.
The Pinecrest house he built, and the record it set
Florida went very differently. Ortiz bought the Pinecrest land in 2016 for $1.5 million and built a house on it in 2019, rather than buying an existing property. Pinecrest is a leafy, low-density suburb south of Miami, popular with families and with athletes who want space without the exposure of Miami Beach.
Inside the 10,200-square-foot build
The finished house runs about 10,200 square feet across five bedrooms and eight bathrooms, set behind gates on more than an acre. Floor-to-ceiling glass walls run through the interior, with fire and water features at the entrance and a strong indoor-outdoor connection to the tropically landscaped backyard. The kitchen is a custom Italian Officine Gullo build with a walk-in pantry, and the primary suite includes a boutique-style closet and a spa-style bath with a floating tub and a 16-foot shower. Beyond that, the house leans into the same interests as the Weston property without being tied to one team: a home theater with recliners and a wet bar, a sports lounge with a wall of nine flat-screen TVs, an outdoor kitchen, a gazebo, a pool, a spa, and three fire pits.
A record sale in 2023
He listed it in February 2023 at $12.5 million, and it sold in June 2023 for $10.55 million — the largest residential sale ever recorded in Pinecrest at that point, and one that narrowly beat the previous neighborhood record of $10.5 million, set in 2022 when Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro bought a home nearby. Even allowing for the gap between asking and closing, that is a substantial return on land bought for $1.5 million seven years earlier, before construction costs. South Florida has absorbed a great deal of this kind of money in recent years, as the coverage of Jeff Bezos’s Miami compound illustrates.
Back on the market in 2025
In June 2025, the same house returned to the market through listing agent Dennis Carvajal of One Sotheby’s International Realty, priced at $11.495 million, which suggests the record price has broadly held.
The Miami condominium he has bought off-plan
Since selling in Pinecrest, Ortiz’s next reported property move has been a purchase at ORA by Casa Tua, a branded residential tower going up at 1210 Brickell Avenue in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood. He bought a three-bedroom unit, with residences of that size in the building priced roughly between $3.35 million and $3.75 million.
ORA is the first residential project tied to the Casa Tua brand, the members-only restaurant and club group founded by Miky Grendene, and it’s being developed by Fortune International Group with Arquitectonica as architect. The tower is planned to rise 77 stories with several hundred fully furnished units, anchored by four Casa Tua restaurant concepts, two pools, a hammam-equipped gym and a co-working lounge. The relevant detail for anyone trying to locate Ortiz today, though, is simpler: the building isn’t scheduled for completion until the end of 2029.
A home that does not exist yet cannot be a residence. This is a forward commitment, and it tells you something about where he expects to be later in the decade rather than where he is living now.
Where does David Ortiz live now?
No reliable public source establishes his current primary residence, and there is a straightforward reason for that: both of the homes he was publicly known to own have been sold, and the property he has bought since has not been built.
What the record supports is a division between two places. He retains deep and continuing ties to the Dominican Republic, where he was born, where his foundation operates, and where he spends substantial time. He also remains committed to South Florida, as evidenced by the off-plan Brickell purchase and the years he spent in Pinecrest. Boston remains central to his public life through the Red Sox, but he no longer owns a home in Massachusetts.
Some celebrity property sites state that he lives in Newton, Massachusetts, or give other specific current addresses. Those claims are not supported by property records, listings, or mainstream reporting, and they should be treated as unverified. The accurate answer is that Ortiz divides his time between the Dominican Republic and South Florida, and that his current home is not a matter of public record.
Sources
- The Boston Globe and Boston.com on the 2021 Weston sale, the price history, and the property’s features.
- The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and Boston 25 News on the 2007 purchase price, the 2019 listing, and Ortiz’s own stated reasons for selling.
- South Florida Agent Magazine and Front Office Sports on the record Pinecrest sale, the 2016 land purchase, and the 2019 build.
- Robb Report on the 2025 Pinecrest relisting, the Tyler Herro record comparison, and interior details.
- PROFILEmiami on the 2025 relisting of the Pinecrest house.
- Robb Report and Branded Living on his purchase at ORA by Casa Tua, including unit type, pricing and development details.
