Editor’s note (9 November 2026): This article has been fully rewritten and re-verified. The previous version of this post contained several claims that do not stand up to checking, and they have been corrected here. The Beverly Hills house was not bought for an “estimated $7–$10 million” at an undisclosed date — Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach bought it in May 1991 for $3.2 million. The Surrey estate, Rydinghurst, was not “sold in 2014 for $20–25 million” — it was listed in 2014 and sold in March 2015 for £13.5 million. Tittenhurst Park was not simply “formerly owned by John Lennon” — Ringo bought it from Lennon in 1973, lived there himself until 1988, and sold it for £5 million. The unaudited $350 million net-worth figure, the car collection, the private jet, and the long list of invented amenities (yoga studio, media wall, metal peace-sign sculpture, home theatre, meditation space) have been removed, because no reputable source supports them. What follows is only what could be verified.
Ringo Starr’s house story is really a story about two lives: the Beatles years in England, when he bought and sold some of the most storied houses in rock history, and the long American chapter that began in 1991, when he and his wife Barbara Bach paid $3.2 million for a mid-century house in Beverly Hills’ Trousdale Estates. More than three decades later, that house — extensively renovated, and now valued in reports at around $14 million — is still his main home. Around it sits a portfolio that reads like a map of the Beatles themselves: the Weybridge house he bought in 1965, the Surrey mansion he bought from Peter Sellers, the Berkshire estate he bought from John Lennon, and the 200-acre Jacobean estate he sold for £13.5 million. This is the full, verified story of the Ringo Starr house collection.
Who Is Ringo Starr?
Richard Starkey was born on 7 July 1940 in the Dingle area of Liverpool, England. He joined The Beatles in August 1962, replacing Pete Best, and played drums on every Beatles album. His solo career produced hits including “It Don’t Come Easy”, “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen”, which reached number one in the United States in 1973. He formed Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band in 1989, a rotating supergroup he still tours with today. He was knighted in 2018 for services to music, and he is one of only a handful of musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice — with The Beatles in 1988 and as a solo artist in 2015.
He married actress Barbara Bach — a former Bond girl — on 27 April 1981. He has three children from his first marriage to Maureen Cox: Zak, Jason and Lee. At 85, he is still recording and touring: his country album Look Up, produced by T Bone Burnett, was released in January 2025 and gave him his first UK number one as a solo artist, and his 22nd studio album, Long Long Road, followed in April 2026. Every year on his birthday, 7 July, he holds his “Peace and Love” gathering — in 2025, for his 85th, it was held at Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills, a short walk from his home.
Where Does Ringo Starr Live Now?
Ringo Starr lives in Beverly Hills, California, with Barbara Bach, in the Trousdale Estates house they bought in 1991. It has been their main home for more than three decades. He also keeps a property in London — a home off King’s Road in Chelsea — and the couple divide their time between Los Angeles and London. The old version of this post said they made California their “permanent home” after selling the Surrey estate in 2014. Both halves of that sentence were wrong: the Surrey sale completed in 2015, and the Chelsea home means London is still part of their life.
Beverly Hills: The $14M Trousdale Estates Mansion
The centrepiece of Ringo’s property story is the house on North Hillcrest Road in Trousdale Estates, the gated, hillside neighbourhood at the top of Beverly Hills. He and Barbara bought it in May 1991 for $3.2 million in cash — some reports put the figure at $3.3 million — shortly after a decade in which they had divided their time between England, Monte Carlo and Colorado. It was, by Beverly Hills standards, a modest purchase: a roughly 5,500-square-foot house on about an acre, built in 1958, with four bedrooms and six bathrooms, a swimming pool, a spa, a cabana and a guesthouse, and views across Los Angeles.
What they bought was a starting point, not a finished showpiece. Over more than thirty years the couple have extensively renovated the house, and reports now put its value at around $14 million — a figure that should be read as a reported estimate, not a sale price, since the house has never been on the market in their ownership. The architecture blends mid-century modern lines with Mediterranean touches, and the grounds are famously private: mature trees, terraced gardens and the pool and spa area behind gates. That privacy is the point. Trousdale Estates is where Beverly Hills’ most discreet residents live, and Ringo — who has spent sixty years being recognised everywhere — has kept this address out of the spotlight for a very long time.
The house has also been the centre of his working life in America. His All Starr Band rehearses and tours from Los Angeles, his recording work in recent years has been done in Nashville and Los Angeles, and the annual “Peace and Love” birthday celebration takes place in Beverly Hills. The old version of this post filled this section with invented interiors — a yoga studio, a media wall, a metal peace-sign sculpture, a home theatre, a meditation space, a gym, a fire pit and a “Beatles museum room”. None of those details appears in any reputable reporting about the house, so they have been removed. What is reported is the pool, spa, cabana and guesthouse, and the extensive renovations the couple have carried out over three decades.
Rydinghurst: The Surrey Estate He Sold for £13.5 Million
The grandest home Ringo ever owned was Rydinghurst, a 200-acre estate near Cranleigh in Surrey. He and Barbara bought it in 1999 for £2 million from Count George Bardeau, after it had sat largely untouched for 25 years. The centrepiece is a Grade II-listed 17th-century Jacobean mansion of about 18,300 square feet, with guest accommodation, formal gardens, lakes, equestrian facilities, an indoor pool, gym, sauna, cinema and music rooms. The interiors were redone by the London designer Nicky Haslam.
They owned it for fifteen years. In 2014 they put it on the market with a guide price of around £15 million — the old version of this post wrongly said it was “sold in 2014 for $20–25 million” — and in March 2015 it was bought by the Czech property billionaire Radovan Vítek for £13.5 million, a gain of £11.5 million on what they had paid, before renovations and costs. The sale was part of a deliberate consolidation: the same year, they also put their Colorado ranch on the market and auctioned hundreds of pieces of Beatles memorabilia and personal items through Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles, raising $9.2 million. The message was clear — after decades of accumulating houses and possessions across three countries, they were keeping the Beverly Hills house and the London home, and letting the rest go.
Tittenhurst Park: The House He Bought from John Lennon
The most famous house in Ringo’s portfolio is Tittenhurst Park, the Grade II-listed early Georgian country house in Sunningdale, Berkshire. John Lennon and Yoko Ono bought it in 1969 for £145,000 and lived there until they settled in New York in 1971; the “Imagine” video was filmed in its white room, and Lennon built the Ascot Sound recording studio in the grounds. On 18 September 1973, Lennon sold it to his former bandmate. Ringo renamed the studio Startling Studios, made it available to other musicians — T. Rex filmed Born To Boogie there — and lived at Tittenhurst with his family until 1988.
The old version of this post reduced all of that to a single line — “Formerly owned by John Lennon; sold after moving to Los Angeles” — which gets the story backwards. Ringo owned Tittenhurst for fifteen years, longer than Lennon did, and it was his family home through the 1970s and 1980s. In 1988 he sold it for £5 million to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi. The new owner gutted the house and studio in a refurbishment between 1989 and 1992, and almost all of the Lennon and Starr fittings were scrapped. In December 2015, surviving items from the house — originally Lennon’s, and included in the 1973 sale to Ringo — were auctioned by Julien’s as part of the Ringo Starr & Barbara Bach sale.
Sunny Heights and Brookfield: The 1960s Homes
Ringo’s first big purchase as a successful musician came in 1965, when he and his first wife Maureen bought Sunny Heights, a mock-Tudor mansion in Weybridge, Surrey, for £37,000. It was a short drive from John Lennon’s Kenwood and George Harrison’s Kinfauns, and it became a retreat for the band — the house even appeared in Magical Mystery Tour. Ringo moved out in 1968, and Lennon and Yoko Ono lived there briefly in 1969 after selling Kenwood, before it was sold the same year. In 2013 it was bought by the Russian businessman Vladimir Scherbakov for £5.8 million, with plans to demolish it and build a new house in its place.
From Weybridge he moved to Brookfield, a 16th-century mansion at Elstead in Surrey, bought from the actor Peter Sellers in 1968. He, Maureen and their two young sons lived there until December 1969 — and on 12 January 1969, after George Harrison had abruptly quit the band, all four Beatles met at Brookfield to try to sort out their problems. The meeting failed, and Harrison returned only after negotiations. Ringo later said he hated the 90-minute drive each way into London, and at the end of the 1960s he moved the family to Highgate in north London, to a house on Compton Avenue — “Billionaire’s Row” — where they lived from 1969 to 1973.
The Aspen Ranch: Shoot N’ Starr
The Starrs’ American story began before Beverly Hills. In 1991 — the same year they bought the Beverly Hills house — they also bought a roughly 15.8-acre ranch along the Roaring Fork River at Woody Creek, near Aspen, Colorado, for $1.164 million. They called it the Shoot N’ Starr ranch. The property has a 3,192-square-foot, three-bedroom house built in 1987, set against red-tinged mountains a few minutes outside Aspen.
They tried to sell it more than once: it was listed in 2010 for $4.5 million without finding a buyer, and listed again in late 2013 and 2014 for $3.85 million as part of the same downsizing that saw Rydinghurst put on the market. The old version of this post said only that the Aspen home was “sold during downsizing efforts”. No confirmed sale price has been found in the sources consulted for this article, so the sale is not stated here as a fact — what is certain is that the ranch was on the market twice, and that the couple’s focus shifted firmly to Los Angeles.
Chelsea and Monte Carlo: The Homes That Remain — and the One That Went
For many years the Starrs divided their time between three places: the Surrey estate, Los Angeles and Monte Carlo, where they kept a home. The Monte Carlo home belongs to the earlier chapter of their life together; it is no longer part of the picture, and the old version of this post’s claim that it was kept “for tax purposes” is an unverified claim about motive, so it has been removed.
What has lasted is London. Ringo retains a property in Chelsea, off King’s Road, and he and Barbara continue to divide their time between London and Los Angeles. It is a fitting arrangement for a man whose life has always run on two tracks: Liverpool and London made him, and Los Angeles keeps him working. His childhood home at 10 Admiral Grove in the Dingle — the small terraced house the family moved to when he was four — is now preserved as part of Beatles history, a place of pilgrimage for fans. He was born at 9 Madryn Street, a few streets away.
Ringo Starr’s Property Portfolio
| Property | Location | Bought | Price paid | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly Hills mansion (Trousdale Estates) | Beverly Hills, California | May 1991 | $3.2 million | Current main home; reported value ~$14m |
| Chelsea home | London, England | Not publicly reported | Not publicly reported | Owned — London base |
| Rydinghurst estate | Cranleigh, Surrey | 1999 | £2 million | Sold Mar 2015 for £13.5m |
| Tittenhurst Park | Sunningdale, Berkshire | 18 Sep 1973 | Not publicly reported | Sold 1988 for £5m |
| Sunny Heights | Weybridge, Surrey | 1965 | £37,000 | Sold 1969 |
| Brookfield | Elstead, Surrey | 1968 | Not publicly reported | Sold c. 1969 |
| Highgate house (Compton Avenue) | London, England | c. 1969 | Not publicly reported | Sold 1973 |
| Shoot N’ Starr ranch | Woody Creek, Colorado | 1991 | $1.164 million | Listed 2010 ($4.5m) and 2014 ($3.85m) |
| 10 Admiral Grove (childhood home) | Liverpool, England | — | — | Family home; now preserved |
FAQs
Where does Ringo Starr live now?
Ringo Starr lives in Beverly Hills, California, with his wife Barbara Bach, in the Trousdale Estates house they bought in May 1991. He also keeps a home in Chelsea, London, and divides his time between Los Angeles and London.
How much did Ringo Starr pay for his Beverly Hills house?
He and Barbara Bach paid $3.2 million in cash in May 1991 (some reports put the figure at $3.3 million). The roughly 5,500-square-foot house, built in 1958, is now valued in reports at around $14 million — a reported estimate, not a sale price.
Did Ringo Starr buy a house from John Lennon?
Yes. On 18 September 1973 he bought Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire from John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and lived there until 1988, when he sold it for £5 million to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi. He renamed Lennon’s Ascot Sound studio Startling Studios.
What happened to Ringo Starr’s Surrey estate?
Rydinghurst, the 200-acre estate near Cranleigh, was bought in 1999 for £2 million, listed in 2014 with a guide price of around £15 million, and sold in March 2015 to the Czech billionaire Radovan Vítek for £13.5 million.
How many homes has Ringo Starr owned?
At least eight properties are publicly documented: the Beverly Hills mansion and the Chelsea home he still owns, plus Rydinghurst, Tittenhurst Park, Sunny Heights, Brookfield, the Highgate house and the Colorado ranch. His childhood home at 10 Admiral Grove in Liverpool is preserved as Beatles heritage.
What the Ringo Starr House Story Shows
Ringo Starr’s property story is unusual because the houses are the history. Sunny Heights and Brookfield are where the Beatles retreated and argued in their final years. Tittenhurst is where “Imagine” was filmed and where Ringo ran a recording studio for fifteen years. Rydinghurst is where a working-class boy from the Dingle ended up owning a 200-acre Jacobean estate — and then, at 74, decided he didn’t need it any more. And the Beverly Hills house is the quiet constant: bought for $3.2 million in 1991, renovated over three decades, still home at 85, still the base for the All Starr Band and the annual “Peace and Love” birthday. He bought houses the way he played drums — steady, unshowy, and always in service of the song.
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