Rachel Levin, the YouTuber known online as RCLBeauty101, has one documented property to her name, and it is a genuinely impressive piece of work. In November 2017, aged 22, she paid $910,000 for a house in Wynnewood, a Philadelphia Main Line suburb a few miles from where she grew up. Five years later, she sold it for $4.2 million.
That is not a story about a rising market. Wynnewood did not appreciate by 360 per cent between 2017 and 2022. The gap is explained by what she did to the house in between: a complete renovation that produced a 7,400-square-foot, five-bedroom property with a pool house and a loggia.
This guide covers that transaction in detail, clears up the confusion caused by other public figures with similar names, and sets out what is and is not known about where she lives now.
Who is Rachel Levin?
Rachel Claire Levin was born in Philadelphia in February 1995 and grew up in the Lower Merion area, graduating from Lower Merion High School. She started posting beauty tutorials to YouTube at fifteen, beginning with a video on concealing dark circles, and by sixteen was being quoted in the Wall Street Journal on the rise of online makeup content.
Her channel, RCLBeauty101, moved from beauty into comedy sketches and built an audience of around 14.2 million subscribers and close to four billion total views. Individual videos performed at a scale that is hard to overstate: her Disney princess sleepover sketch passed 60 million views. In 2015, she was ranked the top social media influencer under 21. She launched a cosmetics line in 2020, and since her channel wound down around 2022, she has concentrated on music, releasing singles across 2023, 2024, and 2025.
One clarification is worth making, because search results mix them up constantly. This is not Rachel Levine, the American physician and public health official, and not Rachel Levin, the author. Different people, different spellings in the first case, and no connection between any of them.
The Wynnewood house: bought at 22
Levin bought in Wynnewood, in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, in November 2017 for $910,000. Local coverage described it as the first major purchase she made after becoming a YouTube star.
Two things stand out about that choice. The first is her age: she was 22, and buying outright in a genuinely expensive Philadelphia suburb rather than renting somewhere cheaper. The second is the location. Wynnewood is minutes from where she was raised and where her family lived. At a point in her career when most creators at that level of success were relocating to Los Angeles, she bought at home.
That is unusual. The standard path for a creator with fourteen million subscribers ran through a content house or a Hollywood Hills rental, a pattern well documented in the property histories of contemporaries such as David Dobrik.
Levin has since described the decision as close to instant. Speaking to the Philadelphia Business Journal after the sale, she said it took her only a few seconds inside the house to see what it could become, well before any of the renovation work that followed. That kind of immediate conviction is easy to say in hindsight, but it lines up with what she actually did next: rather than making cosmetic updates and reselling, she committed to a full rebuild of a house she’d barely seen.
The renovation, and where the $4.2 million came from
The house she sold, at 139 Cherry Lane in Wynnewood, was not the house she bought in 2017. Local reporting on the sale describes a completely renovated residence of about 7,400 square feet on roughly 2.5 acres, with five bedrooms each having its own bathroom, a substantial primary suite with a walk-in closet large enough to function as a room on its own, a pool with a pool house, a loggia with a wood-burning fireplace, a fountain, and terraces.
Listing records for the property, designed by Tallulah & Bird and built by Regan Construction Company, fill in what that renovation actually involved: French oak floors paired with Belgian bluestone tile, poured-concrete counters and fireplace surrounds, and a great room with a folding glass wall opening onto the rear patio. The kitchen was rebuilt as a large eat-in space with an oversized walk-in pantry and professional-grade appliances. None of this is the kind of update a flip does on a budget — it points to a full architectural rebuild rather than a cosmetic refresh, which helps explain why the renovation cost, though unpublished, was clearly substantial.
The sale price was $4.2 million. Against a $910,000 purchase, the headline gain is roughly $3.29 million, but that figure is misleading on its own because it takes no account of the renovation. The cost of that work has never been made public. A gut renovation and expansion producing a 7,400-square-foot house with a pool house would represent a very large seven-figure outlay in that market, so the actual return is meaningfully lower than the raw difference between the two prices, by an amount nobody outside the transaction can calculate.
What can be said is that the project worked. A $4.2 million sale places the house near the top of its market, and the value was created by construction rather than by waiting. That is the opposite of most celebrity property outcomes, where highly personalised renovations narrow the buyer pool and cost money at resale, as happened with several homes covered elsewhere on this site, including James Charles’s Encino house.
The timing adds a small, telling detail. By most accounts, the renovation wrapped only shortly before the October 2022 sale, which means Levin had very little time to actually live in the finished house before letting it go. Combined with the location shift discussed below, the picture is less “renovate and settle in” and more “renovate, then move on.”
Where does Rachel Levin live now?
There is no reliable public information establishing her current home, and no property purchase of hers has been documented since the 2022 sale.
The one thing on the record is that coverage of that sale reported she was, by then, spending most of her time in Los Angeles. That is consistent with the timing: her YouTube channel wound down around the same period, and she moved into music, an industry centred on Los Angeles rather than Philadelphia. Selling the Pennsylvania house looks like the closing of that chapter.
But being reported as spending time in a city is not the same as a documented residence, and no property records, listings, or mainstream reports place her in a specific Los Angeles home. Anything you find online stating that she owns a particular Los Angeles mansion is not supported by evidence. The accurate position is that she sold her only publicly known property in 2022, was reported to be based mainly in Los Angeles around that time, and has not appeared in the property record since.
What the one transaction shows
For a subject with a single documented purchase, the Wynnewood house says a surprising amount. It shows a young creator converting an income stream that most people at the time assumed was temporary into a hard asset, doing it at home rather than in Los Angeles, and then adding value through building work rather than betting on the market.
Whatever she has done with the proceeds since has stayed private, which for someone who spent a decade filming inside her own house is a reasonable choice.
Sources
- MONTCO.Today, citing original reporting by Lisa Dukart for the Philadelphia Business Journal, on the October 2022 sale at $4.2 million, the November 2017 purchase at $910,000, and the renovated property’s size and features.
- Wikipedia for her background, channel history, subscriber figures, and later music releases.
- Public listing records for 139 Cherry Lane, Wynnewood, PA, for the property’s designer, builder, and interior material details.
