Larry Ellison
The Wall Street Journal once called Larry Ellison the nation's most avid trophy-home buyer, and the record bears the description out. The Oracle co-founder owns the rarest asset in American real estate, which is a Hawaiian island, and around it he has assembled a residential geography that runs from a Silicon Valley replica of a Japanese imperial palace to the better part of Malibu's Carbon Beach, from an Astor mansion in Newport to a Zen temple's grounds in Kyoto, and, since 2022, to the Florida compound he now calls home. He does not collect houses so much as collect places. What follows is the record of those holdings, market by market, held together by the press that documented each one.
- PR-LE-01Pacific HeightsPacific Heights, San Francisco
- PR-LE-02The Woodside EstateWoodside, California
- PR-LE-03Carbon BeachCarbon Beach, Malibu
- PR-LE-04BeechwoodBellevue Avenue, Newport
- PR-LE-05Porcupine CreekRancho Mirage, California
- PR-LE-06The Kyoto ResidenceKyoto, Japan
- PR-LE-07LanaiLanai, Hawaii
- PR-LE-08Seminole LandingNorth Palm Beach, Florida
- PR-LE-09GeminiManalapan, Florida
Pacific Heights
A William Wurster modernist mansion, the first home of record
The Pacific Heights residence is a modernist mansion on Broadway Street in San Francisco, designed by the noted Bay Area architect William Wurster, that Larry Ellison acquired in 1988 for a reported $3.9 million and sold in 2026 for $45 million. He had expanded the holding in 2011 with a neighboring property reported near $40 million, on a stretch known locally as Billionaire's Row.
- 1988 Ellison's first home of record, a Wurster modernist house bought a decade after he founded Oracle, the opening entry in a portfolio that would eventually circle the globe. Robb Report
- 2026 He sold the Pacific Heights mansion for $45 million as his life shifted east to Florida and out to Hawaii. The San Francisco Standard · reported
The Woodside Estate
A 16th-century Japanese imperial palace, rebuilt in Silicon Valley
The Woodside Estate is a 23-acre compound in the hills above Silicon Valley, modeled on a 16th-century Japanese imperial palace, that Larry Ellison began assembling in 1995 and completed in 2004 after roughly nine years of construction and a reported $200 million. It comprises an 8,000 square foot main house, ten additional structures, a tea house, a koi pond, and a man-made lake.
- 1995 to 2004 Ellison spent the better part of a decade building a Kyoto-style retreat in the California hills, a private answer to his lifelong fascination with Japanese architecture. Robb Report
Carbon Beach
The shoreline the Oracle founder turned into a private holding
Carbon Beach, known in Malibu as Billionaire's Beach, is the oceanfront stretch where Larry Ellison has assembled at least a dozen properties since 2002, a holding The Real Deal valued above $250 million. His acquisitions include homes once owned by the producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Joel Silver and the executive Terry Semel, bought through his longtime broker Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency.
- 2017 The Real Deal mapped the assemblage and called Ellison "his majesty of Malibu," noting that his broker Kurt Rappaport controls so much of the coast that a single Ellison decision can move the market. The Real Deal
- 2018 He added a beachfront house from producer Joel Silver for $38 million, a year after taking the Ackerberg estate for $48 million. Robb Report · Business Insider
Beechwood
The Astor mansion, restored toward a museum
Beechwood is a Gilded Age mansion at 580 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, renovated by Richard Morris Hunt in 1881 for the Astor family, that Larry Ellison acquired in 2010 for $10.5 million and has since restored at a reported cost above $100 million toward an art museum. In 2019 he added the neighboring Seacliff estate at 562 Bellevue Avenue for $11 million, extending his Newport holding along the Cliff Walk from Rosecliff toward Marble House.
- 2010 Ellison bought the 39-room Astor mansion, the Gilded Age seat of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor and her famous Four Hundred, and began a restoration toward Hunt's 1881 condition. The Newport Daily News)
- 2019 He acquired the adjacent Seacliff estate, enlarging the Beechwood grounds and consolidating one of the longest private stretches on Bellevue Avenue. GoLocalProv
Porcupine Creek
A desert estate with its own eighteen holes
Porcupine Creek is a roughly 230-acre desert estate in Rancho Mirage, California, built by the financier Tim Blixseth, that Larry Ellison acquired in 2011 for $42.9 million. The compound centers on an 18,430 square foot residence beneath the Santa Rosa Mountains with its own 18-hole golf course, and Ellison has since reopened it as the Sensei Porcupine Creek retreat.
- 2011 Ellison, not a golfer, bought one of the most exclusive private courses in the country along with its estate house, taking the property from Yellowstone Club founder Tim Blixseth. Robb Report · Patch
The Kyoto Residence
A house on the grounds of a Zen temple
The Kyoto Residence is a Japanese estate on the grounds of Nanzen-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, that Larry Ellison has owned and described as a future home for part of his Japanese art collection. The holding reflects a lifelong devotion to Japanese architecture that also shaped his Woodside and Malibu houses.
- 2012 Ellison told CNBC that several of his homes, the Kyoto estate among them, would in time become small museums for his collection of modern, European, and Impressionist art. CNBC · reported
Lanai
Ninety-eight percent of a Hawaiian island
Lanai is the Hawaiian island of which Larry Ellison acquired 98 percent in 2012, a holding of roughly 90,000 acres reported between $300 million and $500 million. Ellison has made the island his base and the centerpiece of an experiment in sustainable luxury, listing it among his prior residences when he declared Florida his domicile in 2023.
- 2012 Ellison bought nearly the whole of Lanai, becoming steward of an island of some three thousand residents and two resorts, then poured years into its hotels, farming, and clean energy. Robb Report · Fortune
Seminole Landing
Five hundred feet of Florida oceanfront
The Seminole Landing estate is a waterfront property of more than seven acres in North Palm Beach, Florida, with 520 feet of ocean frontage, that Larry Ellison acquired in 2021 for $80 million. It ranks among the largest oceanfront parcels in Palm Beach County, and Ellison briefly listed it at $145 million before withdrawing it from the market.
- 2021 Ellison's first major Florida purchase, a rare oceanfront parcel large enough for a private helipad, preceded his record Manalapan buy by a year. Robb Report · AOL
Gemini
The record compound, now his primary residence
Gemini is a 16-acre ocean-to-Intracoastal estate in Manalapan, Florida, that Larry Ellison acquired in 2022 for $173 million, a Florida residential record at the time. Previously owned by the Ziff family and later by the technologist Jim Clark, the compound became Ellison's declared primary residence when he filed his domicile in Palm Beach County in 2023.
- 2022 Ellison set the Florida residential record with the Gemini compound, an estate spanning beach to lagoon that had passed from the Ziff family to Netscape's Jim Clark before him. Bloomberg · Crain Currency
- 2023 He filed a declaration of domicile in Palm Beach County naming the Manalapan estate his principal home, formalizing the move east. AOL
The Questions on Record
How many homes does Larry Ellison own?
This record catalogues nine significant residential holdings Larry Ellison has bought, built, or assembled across California, Hawaii, Florida, Rhode Island, and Japan. Several, including the Malibu Carbon Beach assemblage and the Newport estate, comprise multiple adjacent properties acquired over time.
Does Larry Ellison own a Hawaiian island?
Yes. Ellison acquired 98 percent of the island of Lanai in 2012, roughly 90,000 acres, in a transaction reported between $300 million and $500 million. The island serves as his base and a testing ground for sustainable luxury and clean energy.
What is the most expensive home Larry Ellison has bought?
Ellison's $173 million purchase of the Gemini compound in Manalapan, Florida in 2022 set a state residential record and stands as his most expensive single home acquisition. His purchase of Lanai is larger still, though it is an island rather than a house.
Where are Larry Ellison's homes located?
Ellison's residences of record span Manalapan and North Palm Beach in Florida; the island of Lanai in Hawaii; Woodside, Malibu, and Rancho Mirage in California; Newport, Rhode Island; and Kyoto, Japan. He sold his San Francisco Pacific Heights mansion in 2026.
Has Larry Ellison sold any of his homes?
Ellison sold his Pacific Heights mansion in San Francisco in 2026 for $45 million, the first home he had owned. He also briefly listed his North Palm Beach estate at $145 million in 2022 before withdrawing it from the market.
What is the value of Larry Ellison's real estate portfolio?
Published estimates place Ellison's residential holdings near $2 billion, with Robb Report valuing the property portfolio between $1.75 billion and nearly $2 billion, a figure that excludes the underlying value of his commercial and resort holdings.
Read together, the record draws a single line. Ellison buys not addresses but places, the whole of a coastline, the grounds of a temple, the better part of an island, then bends each toward a private vision of how a life of that scale should be lived. He has called the homes future museums, and in a sense the portfolio already is one. The press, in turn, has kept the receipts.
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