There’s a running joke that he primarily plays characters who are trying to get home—but where does Matt Damon live in real life? The star of Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar, The Martian, and now Christopher Nolan’s epic blockbuster The Odyssey, in which Damon stars as Odysseus on his long journey back to Ithaca, primarily lives in New York. The Massachussetts native also keeps a pied-à-terre close to the filmmaking action in Hollywood.
Read on for an overview of the most notable places in Damon’s real estate portfolio, including a record-breaking Brooklyn penthouse.
Miami Beach house
In 2005 (between Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen), Damon shelled out a total of $14.5 million for two neighboring parcels in Miami Beach. The estate was a newlywed nest; it was the same year that the actor married his wife, Luciana Barroso, whom he had met in the sunny city. Listing history shows the double lot was a one-acre property with 170 feet of Biscayne Bay water frontage. Across a two-story Mediterranean-style main home and a two-bedroom guesthouse, the estate spanned over 12,000 square feet with seven bedrooms and nine and a half bathrooms. Overlooking a large swimming pool with an inset spa, a cabana was decked out with a summer kitchen and a rooftop terrace. Other highlights of the home included a movie theater, a wine cellar, an office, and a private terrace off of the spacious primary suite. After nearly a decade of ownership, the actor sold the compound in 2014 for $15.4 million.
Pacific Palisades mansion
Damon spent about the same amount of time maintaining his next property, a Pacific Palisades mansion that he owned from 2012 until 2021. The Oscar winner paid $15 million for the seven-bedroom, 10-bathroom house which spanned 13,500 square feet. Rich mahogany lined many of the floors and ceilings, uniting the home’s Zen interiors. An atrium with 35-foot-tall ceilings hosted a sitting area at the heart of the home, adjacent to a dining area and a billiards lounge, both with floor-to-ceiling glass doors opening to the home’s 0.68-acre property, which also boasted a pool, a Hawaiian-inspired lanai, and a koi pond. With plans to make New York City his primary home, the Good Will Hunting star listed the dwelling in January 2021 for $21 million. It wasn’t until that November, however, that the pad traded hands for a reduced $18 million.
Record-breaking Brooklyn home
The Oppenheimer actor’s pad in the Big Apple is a massive penthouse triplex in The Standish, a luxury building in Brooklyn Heights. He broke the record for the most expensive Brooklyn dwelling ever sold when he scooped it up for $16.745 million in late 2018 (almost quaint in comparison to the current record-holder, a Gravesend mansion that sold for $32 million in November 2025). The actor made headlines when he began moving into the 6,200-square-foot, six-bedroom aerie in 2020, closing down the entire block to accommodate a crane that stretched over 14 stories to deposit furniture and trees on Damon’s sprawling terrace.
Originally known as the Standish Arms Hotel, the Beaux-Arts building was erected in 1903 by Frank S. Lowe. The famed structure has shown up in notable works of fiction, including Death of a Salesman and Superman, in which it served as Clark Kent’s home. Emily Blunt and John Krasinski own an apartment there, and Adam Driver recently sold his unit in the former hotel. Damon still maintains his penthouse.
