What Kinds of Real Estate Do Celebrities Buy?

GISELLE BÜNDCHEN, MODEL

I’m a New England Patriots and Tom Brady fan .

So, when TB12 and his Brazilian model wife Giselle Bündchen split in 2022 after 12 years of marriage, both needed new homes.

​There wasn’t too much I found interesting in their first new home choices, but I very much like Ms. Bündchen’s recent house purchase in South Florida.

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It is a 7.5-acre estate about 50 km from Miami with a full-sized soccer pitch and two equestrian rings. The area is known for its horse ranches and premier horse riding. If you’ve ever been involved with horses you’ll know they are an expensive and time-consuming hobby.

The house is lovely, and quite tasteful considering how close it is to Miami and all the garish opulence that that city possesses. The house was built in the 1970s but has been extensively renovated.

There are two structures on the land: the main home and a 10-stall horse barn with attached guest quarters. There are nine bedrooms between the main residence and the guest space. The property also has an infinity pool, outdoor kitchen, and fish pond.

I'd never thought of Florida as having architecture made of brick, let alone the dark earthy coloured brick facade that you  see here, but it creates a muscular and sturdy architectural presence that appeals.

The house is a modern building with a colourful, stripped down but tasteful design aesthetic that softens some of the coolness modern, quadratic, straight-line architecture possesses. It feels too big and barn-like to be intimate, but it will certainly offer lots of room for growing kids to run and play, inside and out, and that I'm sure is what Ms Bündchen is looking for - plus, outside, the rural, animals-running-free-in-a-relaxed-garden atmosphere.

Every part of the house is wide, spacious, and open. The kitchen, the bedrooms, the living areas. Space everywhere. It's a hike to navigate the home, which gives it a bit of a modern museum quality. Gorgeous, but not quite intimate. Maybe a bit like the Brady-Bündchen marriage at the end.