The real estate tale of Bad Bunny is more of a trophy-case tour than the real home life involves glass and serene hillside, the high-end entertaining rooms and the inner rooms where the family spends their intimate moments. In California and Puerto Rico, and large part of New York living, the thread is the same, which is control, not of light, views, and access in particular. In the celebrity level, such as a floor plan can turn into a public content overnight, such control may begin long before anyone enters.
1. A West Hollywood home made to be easy-going outdoors and indoors
In 2023, Bad Bunny also added a modern day property above the Sunset Strip with 7,316 square feet on a bit over half an acre. The design is a mixture of 5-bedroom main house and a two-bedroom guesthouse that forms a rhythm of a compound which promotes the hosting without compromising the privacy. The interiors are characterized as light and open with a sunken living room, a wet bar, and an eat-in chef-designed kitchen based on flow and not formality.
The vast use of glass highlights both the views of the treetop and urban areas, whereas the exterior facilities, such as an infinity pool with spa and the BBQ area, spread the living areas onto the landscape. The description of the home is in line with a modern Hollywood Hills mansion located over the Sunset Strip that has been largely attached to the artist.
2. The Bird Streets house: low-intimacy location, small footprint
The other home in Los Angeles area is even more restrained in size: a one-story house of a little less than 1,600 square feet in the Bird Streets district. Occupying three parcels of hillsides adding up to 0.74 acres, the property is a combination of a tight interior program and outdoor breathing room.
The house has three bedrooms and two bathrooms, but the house attractiveness lies in its geometry and planning of the location: an angular pool, a big patio, and a long driveway separating this house with the street. The purchase itself also portrays the way high-profile transactions are often done, where the acquisition was an off-market transaction, which is a privacy-friendly way of doing business when an individual is in the limelight.
3. West Chelsea: a penthouse that takes the outside as the second apartment
The New York chapter of Bad Bunny is most closely linked to a duplex penthouse in West Chelsea, the numbers of which alone present the picture of the lifestyle: 4,552 square feet indoors and 4,593 square feet outdoors. The design language is tilted to modern and touchable, wood cladding, high ceilings, floor-to- ceiling windows to pre-empt views of the skyline. A kitchen and library facility is used in the kitchen and library of a chef to support the reality of the live and work tourism of the artists and a spiral stair is used to reach the rooftop where lingering can be done. Most surprising is the fact that there is a private 32-foot lap pool which makes the terrace no longer occasional luxury, but a ritual. The house was later a reality house on Netflix show, Owning Manhattan.
4. San Juan: an intentionally silent domestic base
Little information is actually provided concerning the place Bad Bunny lives in Puerto Rico, but the silhouettes count: during the pandemic he occupied a luxurious rental apartment in San Juan and only shared short and controlled jots with informal live videos. The discretion is part of a larger trend in celebrity dwelling, privacy is required as a design feature, and not an extra.
He created a concept that the emotional role of being at home with family plays in a Time cover story: The outside world might be listening and talking about me, outside of that house. However, everything is the same in that house. I like to go there and it is beautiful to me, and my parents still stare at me, putting the eyes on me, in the face, that say, Come here, Benito Antonio. The Baby. The son, he said.
5. Beyond the speech: Puerto Rico as real, not setting
Puerto Rico is the best point of orientation even when there is an international portfolio. When interviewed as to his favorite spots on the island, he made specific mention of coastal townships and familiar paths, and what welcome means in simple sensual language: I get some fish, mofongo or octopus ceviche. This feeling is arrived at in the form of place-based wellbeing, food, coast and repetition, not a tourist checklist. His liking was also boiled down to the point: I have been through the world, and Puerto Rico is my favorite of all places.
Combined with the homes, the homes imply a portfolio that is worked out to adapt to the realities of scheduling, such as touring, recording, visibility and an ongoing need to determine when life becomes public and when it is not. Such balance is reflected in the architecture: guesthouses which cushion, terraces which enlarge daily life, and off-market deals which minimize exposure. The headline elements could be the pools and views, however, the through-line is less strident: designed distance, and the possibility to come home without being noticed.
