Since joining Inter Miami in 2023, Lionel Messi has lived in South Florida, and the house most people mean when they search for his home is the waterfront property he bought in Fort Lauderdale that September for $10.75 million. That purchase was the moment his move to the United States stopped looking temporary — and it made Florida, rather than any single city within it, the honest answer to “where is Messi’s house?”
It is far from his only property. Messi has spent more than fifteen years accumulating real estate across three continents: condominiums in the Miami metropolitan area, the Castelldefels house outside Barcelona that was his home through most of his career there, a large family compound built on the edge of his home city of Rosario in Argentina, and a mansion in Ibiza that ran into trouble with local planning authorities.
One quick clarification before the details: none of his Florida homes are actually inside Miami city limits. The Fort Lauderdale house is in Broward County, roughly 25 miles north of downtown Miami, and the Sunny Isles Beach condos sit in Miami-Dade County but in their own municipality, not Miami proper. “Messi’s house in Miami” is how people search for it, and this guide covers exactly those properties — it’s just worth knowing the precise city names if you’re trying to place them on a map.
This guide covers each of them, keeps documented purchase prices apart from the estimated valuations that circulate online, and answers the question of where he actually lives now. Where a figure below is a confirmed sale price from public records or contemporaneous news reporting, we label it as such; where it’s a valuation estimate produced later by property commentators, we label that too, and the two should not be read as equivalent.
Properties at a Glance
| Property | Location | Reported figures | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterfront house, about 10,500 sq ft | Bay Colony, Fort Lauderdale, Florida | Bought September 2023 for $10.75 million (documented) | His documented South Florida residence |
| Full-floor condominium, 4 bedrooms | Sunny Isles Beach, Florida | Bought in 2021 for $7.3 million (documented) | Owned |
| Condominium unit | Sunny Isles Beach, Florida | Bought around 2018 for about $5 million (documented) | Owned |
| House with grounds and a private pitch | Castelldefels, near Barcelona, Spain | Bought in 2009 for roughly $2 million (documented); often estimated near $7 million today (estimate only) | Long-held; current value is an estimate only |
| Family compound, reported 20 to 25 rooms | Outside Rosario, Argentina | Built around 2022; cost not publicly documented | Reported |
| Mansion | Ibiza, Spain | Bought in 2022, reported at about £9.5 million (documented) | Subject of a reported planning dispute |
Who is Lionel Messi?
Lionel Messi is an Argentine footballer, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport’s history. He spent the bulk of his career at Barcelona, where he arrived as a teenager and became the club’s all-time leading scorer, before a spell at Paris Saint-Germain and then a move to Inter Miami in Major League Soccer in 2023. He captained Argentina to victory at the 2022 World Cup, and in October 2025 signed a contract extension with Inter Miami running through the 2028 MLS season.
His finances have grown alongside his property portfolio. Forbes estimated his net worth at roughly $1.1 billion in mid-2026, crossing him into billionaire status alongside a small handful of active athletes; some other trackers place the figure closer to $850 million, with the gap coming down to how private business stakes and real estate are valued. Either way, the six-figure and seven-figure home purchases below represent a modest fraction of his overall wealth rather than a stretch.
That career path is the reason his property map looks the way it does. The homes fall into three clear phases: the Barcelona years, when Castelldefels was the family base; the return to Argentine roots, expressed in the Rosario compound; and the American chapter, which began with condominiums bought as investments and turned into a permanent residence once he signed for Inter Miami.
The Fort Lauderdale house he bought after joining Inter Miami
Messi relocated to South Florida in July 2023 after signing with Inter Miami, and by September he had bought a house. CBS News Miami reported the price at $10.75 million for a waterfront property at 91 Compass Lane, inside Bay Colony, a guard-gated community in Fort Lauderdale.
The home runs about 10,500 square feet across two storeys, with eight bedrooms, nine and a half bathrooms, a three-car garage, a pool, two boat docks, and roughly 170 feet of direct water frontage. It was bought through an entity called Sadani LLC, which is standard practice for high-profile buyers and does not indicate anything unusual about the transaction. He moved in with his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, and their three sons.
The house had been renovated in 2019 by interior designer Lori Morris, whose work on the property was later featured in Florida Design Magazine — a domed foyer, an Italian-style kitchen, and a roughly 1,600-square-foot primary suite are among the details that have circulated since the sale. Messi isn’t the only Inter Miami name in Bay Colony, either: teammate Luis Suárez has also owned a home in the same community, part of why the enclave has become something of a quiet hub for the club’s biggest signings.
Bay Colony is one of the more exclusive waterfront enclaves in Broward County, with a private marina and round-the-clock security, which is a large part of why a player of Messi’s profile chose it over a more visible Miami Beach address. When Messi bought the house, it sat a short drive from Chase Stadium, Inter Miami’s home ground at the time. That calculus has since shifted: in April 2026, the club moved into Nu Stadium, its purpose-built home in Miami’s Freedom Park, meaning the Fort Lauderdale house is no longer the short commute from work it once was.
There’s no public reporting of Messi selling or replacing the property since, so it remains his documented residence, just a longer drive from matchdays than it used to be. Other athletes have taken a similar approach to the region, as the coverage of Tyreek Hill’s South Florida house shows.
The Miami condominiums he bought as investments
Messi was buying Florida property years before he played there. Around 2018, he paid roughly $5 million for a unit in a landmark Sunny Isles Beach tower, and in 2021, The Real Deal and Local 10 reported that his family had paid $7.3 million for an entire floor of a second Sunny Isles condominium building.
That full-floor residence has four bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, plus around 2,100 square feet of terrace and a wine store with capacity for about a thousand bottles. Buying a whole floor solves a problem specific to people at his level of fame, since it removes the possibility of neighbours sharing a lift lobby — the same privacy logic that shows up again in his choice of a gated Bay Colony address over a more exposed one.
He has also been reported, though without the same level of sourcing as the purchases above, to have units under contract at a branded residential development in Miami’s Brickell district, with the largest said to be around $7.5 million. Those reports describe contracts rather than completed and recorded purchases, so treat them as unconfirmed rather than as homes he currently owns.
The Castelldefels house outside Barcelona
For most of his Barcelona career, Messi’s home was in Castelldefels, a coastal town roughly fifteen miles from the city. He bought the property in 2009 for a figure generally reported at around $2 million, and progressively developed it: a pool, a home cinema, a gym and spa, a full-sized garden pitch, and a room given over to his collection of shirts swapped with other players.
The house is frequently described as being worth around $7 million today. That is an estimate produced by property commentators, not a sale price or a listing, and there is no public evidence that he has sold it. It is best understood as a long-held Spanish base whose current market value nobody has actually tested.
The Rosario compound in Argentina
Around 2022, Messi built a large family compound on the outskirts of Rosario, the Argentine city where he was born and where he began playing. Reporting describes it as assembled from three adjoining plots and containing somewhere between twenty and twenty-five rooms, with a private cinema, an extensive gym and an underground garage said to hold about fifteen cars. The property has acquired the nickname “The Fortress” in the Argentine press.
Details here are less firm than for the Florida purchases, because Argentine property records are not reported in the same way and much of the description comes from local media rather than from documents. What is consistent across sources is the existence, scale, and location of the compound, and the widely held view that it is intended as the family’s long-term home after he retires from playing. The specifics of room counts and features should be treated as reported rather than confirmed.
The Ibiza mansion and its planning problems
In 2022 Messi bought a mansion in Ibiza, at a price reported at around £9.5 million. The property later became the subject of a planning dispute, with reports of unauthorised additions and a stop-work order issued by local authorities.
Building disputes of this kind are common on the Balearic Islands, where construction rules are strict and enforcement is active, and they are not evidence of anything unusual. The relevant point for anyone tracking his portfolio is simply that this is a holiday property with an unresolved regulatory history attached to it, not a primary residence.
What the portfolio is worth
Estimates of the total value of Messi’s real estate vary widely, with published figures ranging from roughly $200 million to around $300 million. Those numbers are not reconcilable with each other, and neither is derived from a full set of recorded transactions.
The documented purchases that can actually be traced, principally the Fort Lauderdale house and the two Sunny Isles condominiums, come to well under $25 million combined. The much larger totals depend on estimated present-day valuations for the Spanish and Argentine properties and on assumptions about holdings that have never been individually verified. Treat the headline portfolio figures as ballpark commentary rather than as accounting — the same documented-versus-estimated distinction that applies to individual properties above applies here too, just at a larger and blurrier scale.
Lionel Messi Home Photos
Where does Lionel Messi live now?
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This is one of the better-supported current-residence answers in celebrity property writing, because it rests on more than a single report.
The house was bought in his family’s name in September 2023, and there is no reliable reporting that it has been sold. His employment is settled in the same region: the October 2025 contract extension runs through the 2028 season, and while the team now plays its home matches at Nu Stadium in Miami rather than at the Fort Lauderdale ground it used when Messi first signed, that’s a change in commute, not in address. A player under contract in South Florida through 2028, with a school-age family and a bought-and-held house, is living there.
The Spanish and Argentine properties remain part of the picture, but as second homes and as a likely eventual retirement base rather than as his present residence. He also spends parts of the off-season in Argentina and Ibiza, which is why sightings in those places appear regularly and should not be mistaken for a move. Like Marcus Rashford’s property in England, homes in a footballer’s country of origin often persist long after the player has relocated for work.
Sources
- CBS News Miami on the September 2023 Fort Lauderdale purchase, its price and the property’s details.
- The Real Deal and Local 10 on the 2021 full-floor Sunny Isles condominium purchase.
- Robb Report on the wider portfolio, including the Castelldefels, Rosario, and Ibiza properties.
- Forbes Global Properties on the Fort Lauderdale address, designer, and property details.
- Forbes on Messi’s 2026 net worth and earnings.
- Wikipedia — Nu Stadium on Inter Miami’s April 2026 relocation from Fort Lauderdale to Miami.
- ESPN on the Inter Miami contract extension through 2028.
