From A Devon Cottage To Malibu Mansions – A Look at Coldplay Singer Chris Martin's Homes

He’s a global rock star, having written some of the biggest hits of the last twenty years. He’s married and dated Hollywood A-listers and lives in a Malibu mansion. However, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin came from far humbler surroundings. 

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A Modest Middle-Class Start

The chart-topper was born in the unglamorous city of Exeter in 1977, South West England and grew up in Whitestone’s picturesque but tiny village, just four miles from Exeter city center. Martin attended a local Cathedral school and was raised in a six-bedroom Georgian family home. It was a decent middle-class start, befitting his father’s thriving family business selling motor homes. However, it pales compared to some of Martin’s subsequent homesteads, post-rock-star status. 

Malibu Rising

The Englishman called Malibu home to be close to his children when he and his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, divorced. When he and current fiancee Dakota Johnson started dating, Martin stayed in the A-list-heavy enclave. Martin and Johnson moved in together in 2020, buying a $12.5 million Cape Cod-style mansion featuring five bedrooms and seven bathrooms before selling it a year later for $14.4 million.

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Martin has owned several high-priced homes in the area over the years. These include the Garwood Residence, a $14.4 million waterfront home he purchased with Paltrow in 2014, taking ownership after their divorce. He subsequently razed it to construct a new home to share with Johnson.

In 2018, Martin purchased a different property – a $4.5 million theater at Point Dume. The property’s former incarnations include the Shepherd-by-the-Sea Church and later the famed longtime Malibu Playhouse. He still owns it today.

In 2019, enamored with the area, Martin also purchased a relatively small 1,800-square-foot ranch house for $5,475,000, as first reported in The Standard. The house is ideally located for walks on the nearby private Little Dume Beach.

Martin is also thought to have purchased an additional Malibu home in 2021 for $14 million. The meticulously renovated 1956-built five-bedroom home sits on 1.5 acres of manicured grounds, according to a description in realtor.com.

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North London Digs

Martin didn’t turn his back on his native England altogether. In 2014, the “Paradise” singer bought a home in North London’s trendy Belsize Park from actress Kate Winslet for $2.5 million. He sold it in 2022, making a profit of £7 million ($8.8 million).

Music, Sustainability And A Billion-Dollar Tour

According to The Times 2023 rich list, Martin’s net worth was £160 million ($202 million), which has surely increased over the last year with the band having completed a two-and-a-half-year Music of the Spheres World Tour and released a new album. According to Billboard, the band grossed over $1 billion from their recent tour and their album, Moon Music, debuted at number one on the Billboard charts with first-week sales of 120,000 and 16.71 million on-demand official streams.

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In addition, Coldplay has partnered with carmaker BMW to promote sustainable energy. The German brand is touted for allowing the band to “create the world’s first tourable, rechargeable show battery – which will allow us to power our concerts almost entirely from clean, renewable energy,” Martin said on the BMW website.

Coldplay has partnered with Finnish oil company Neste to halve its touring emissions. In June 2024, the band stated that after two years on the road, it had reduced its emissions by 59% compared to the previous tour on a show-by-show comparison. There is no information on how much each European company paid Coldplay to be associated with them in their sustainability efforts. However, regardless of endorsements, from touring alone, Coldplay is one of the richest bands in the world.

Not bad for a former resident of a quaint English village on the outskirts of Exeter.

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