Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z are identified for breaking information, and now, they’ve damaged the file for buying the costliest house in California’s historical past.

Knowles and Jay-Z, who’s actual identify is Shawn Carter, bought a sprawling $200 million Malibu, California property. They reportedly bought a reduction, as the house was privately listed for $295 million. Designed by famend Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the mansion spans 30,000 sq. toes and reportedly took greater than a decade and a half to complete. The trendy house was accomplished in 2014. The vendor is notable Los Angeles artwork collector Invoice Bell, Jr., who’s the inheritor to a cleaning soap opera fortune. His father, William J. Bell, created the enduring cleaning soap operas The Younger and the Stressed and The Daring and the Stunning. Based on the L.A. Instances, Bell bought the property within the late Nineties for $14.5 million and enlisted Ando to create a modernist glass-and-concrete construction. He’s thought-about one of many greatest artwork collectors on the planet, with quite a few artworks by Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Marcel Duchamp, and lots of extra.

The concrete house overlooks the Pacific Ocean and has putting options, an expansive garden on both aspect, and loads of privateness for the ultra-famous household of 5. The sale was brokered by Kurt Rappaport, a celeb actual property agent of the Westside Property Company, who represented each the client and the vendor within the sale. The colossal house spans practically eight acres and has a non-public seaside, infinity pool that appears to stretch off into the ocean, and Zen water options. Based on Grime, greater than 22,500 sq. toes of polished pervious concrete was used for the property’s driveaway and motor courts alone. For the house, it’s estimated that greater than 7,645 cubic yards of concrete was used.

As a result of the house was listed privately, it’s not identified what number of bedrooms and loos are inside or the forms of facilities—however we will solely think about the house’s options are match for the couple’s extravagant tastes. The calming retreat is each easy and tranquil—certainly a respite from each of the musician’s busy life-style. Knowles is at the moment in Europe on her Renaissance World Tour, which is estimated to rake in practically $2 billion. Simply this yr, she claimed the title for probably the most Grammy wins of all time.

The duo has already amassed a formidable actual property portfolio. In 2017, they shelled out $88 million for a formidable Bel-Air pad, and so they additionally personal properties in New York Metropolis and the Hamptons. The Carters’ latest buy surpassed the previous file of a $177 million Malibu compound bought by billionaire Marc Andreessen in 2021, TMZ reported. Nonetheless, nevertheless, the costliest sale within the nation nonetheless belongs to billionaire hedge-fund supervisor Ken Griffin, who bought a New York Metropolis penthouse for $238 million.

Ando can also be the architect behind Kanye West’s $57.3 Malibu house, which he bought in 2021 amid his divorce proceedings with billionaire ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.