The house has no windows, electricity or plumbing and the owner has been shunned from polite society for repeatedly making
antisemitic comments.
It should perhaps be no surprise, then, that Kanye West is selling the property at a discount, though even so — this being Malibu —
only the super-rich need apply.
The rapper and fashion designer has put his California beachfront house on the market for $53 million, two years after he bought it for
$57.25 million. The property was designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando but the Grammy award-winning musician West,
now known as Ye, gutted it.
The 4,000 sq ft home, which was constructed out of concrete and has sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean from each room, has no
windows Kanye West wants to sell his gutted Malibu mansion for $53m
The rapper and designer is set to lose $4m on his beachfront house in California two years after he bought it for $57.25m
Keiran Southern, Los Angeles
It should perhaps be no surprise, then, that Kanye West is selling the property at a discount, though even so — this being Malibu — only the super-rich need apply.
The rapper and fashion designer has put his California beachfront house on the market for $53 million, two years after he bought it for
$57.25 million. The property was designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando but the Grammy award-winning musician West,
now known as Ye, gutted it.
“Much of the architectural integrity and the architectural value of the house exists,” he adds.
Originally crafted in 2013 by Wall Street titan Richard Sachs, the property spent seven years in the making, involving meticulous planning, permitting and construction.
Sachs later slapped a $75 million price tag on the completed house in 2020, constructed from Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Ando’s signature smooth concrete — a behemoth made of approximately 1,200 tons of that material, 200 tons of steel and 12 pylons driven more than 60 feet into the sand.
The three-story dwelling boasts four bedrooms, colossal window openings facing the water and an additional 1,500 square feet of deck space, making it a coastal paradise awaiting its finishing touches.
