After seven decades as one of the most successful musicians in the world, Sir Paul McCartney has amassed a significant string of houses across the UK and America.

Sir Paul McCartney needs no introduction. You know the score and the story – Merseybeat, the Beatles, Linda and Wings and animal rights and solo records and, for a time, what felt like a performance of “Hey Jude” at every public event from the 2012 Olympics to the Royal Wedding.

That’s Paul McCartney, national treasure. He’s one of the best known and longest-established musicians on planet Earth, not to mention a songwriter with astonishing reach and influence (we’re looking very closely at you, Noel Gallagher…).

But where does Macca live? Since growing up at number 20 on southeast Liverpool’s Forthlin Road – a small terraced house now owned and run as a museum by the National Trust – McCartney has owned a series of different and prominent properties.

They begin with a townhouse in Notting Hill which he’s owned since the 1960s, and each new house, apartment or ranch reflects a different stage of his life (as indeed all our different homes tend to).

Cavendish Avenue, St John’s Wood

In 1963, McCartney met the actress Jane Asher at a Beatles gig at the Royal Albert Hall. The two became a couple, and initially lived with Asher’s parents on Wimpole Street in Marylebone.

In March 1966, however, the pair moved into a townhouse that McCartney owned in St John’s Wood, at 7 Cavendish Avenue.

The white, square Georgian mansion was (and still is) shielded from view by high brick walls, and at the time featured three bathrooms, two guest bedrooms and quarters for a live-in housekeeping couple who took care of McCartney and Asher.

Beatles biography The Love You Make by Peter Brown noted that the young couple furnished the house themselves, trawling second-hand shops and reupholstering a sofa and armchair suite bought from an auction house on the Old Brompton Road in bottle-green velvet.

“The floors were covered in deep-pile carpets in sedate tones of brown and gray,” Brown writes, “and Paul’s bedroom, which faced the front courtyard, had a king-size bed covered in Porthault linens, which were changed almost daily by his loyal housekeeper, Rose.

Paul also had a closet built that ran the width of the twenty-two-foot room, which he stocked with the latest fashions from King’s Road and the top tailors.

In the master bath, completely tiled in imported blue and white mosaics, he had built a sunken tub big enough for two.”

During the renovation, workmen didn’t know who they were working for, until the Evening Standard reported that it was McCartney and Asher; fans turned up to take fixtures and fittings as souvenirs and the builders were forced to mount metal sheets on the wooden gates to prevent chalk and lipstick graffiti.

McCartney and Asher broke up in 1968, but he still owns the house in 2025, and it’s considered one of his main residences.

High Park Farm, Scotland

In June 1966, not long after moving into Cavendish Avenue, McCartney also bought a farm on the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland called High Park Farm.

Not far from Campbeltown, the farmhouse had three bedrooms and 183 acres of land attached to it.

The farm was largely dilapidated, and renovations only began in 1969, once McCartney had married Linda (née Eastman). Then, in 1970, he acquired another nearby farm, and an additional 400 acres nearby in early 1971.

In 2021, McCartney said in an interview that he had been inspired to buy a house in Scotland by John Lennon, who had visited relatives who owned a croft in the Highlands and spoke highly of the beauty of the area.

After the Beatles were advised to invest their money in property, McCartney realised that the farm could be a good place to buy (per his recollection, it was his accountant who found the farm for him).

The farm was naturally a place for McCartney to escape from fans and the press, and he rarely if ever invited any of his bandmates to stay.

But it also became a significant part of Wings lore, after McCartney and bandmate Denny Laine wrote “Mull of Kintyre” in tribute to the peninsula that is home to the farm.

The single was the biggest hit Wings had in Britain, reaching Christmas number one in 1977 and selling more than two million copies.

Blossom Wood Farm, East Sussex

A few years later, in 1973, McCartney bought a 160-acre farm called Blossom Wood, near Rye in East Sussex.

By this point, he was married to Linda, and the couple had three daughters – a move to the countryside was natural.

And in fact, many musicians and actors in the 1970s had houses in the Home Counties, particularly in Surrey and East and West Sussex, which offered them easy access to London.

The likes of Keith Moon, Oliver Reed and John Paul Jones all owned notable houses in the belt of countryside around the south of London.

Blossom Wood Farm has become something of a retreat and a haven for the McCartney family over the years; as well as being the house in which his photographer daughter Mary grew up, she and her family isolated there with Paul during the coronavirus pandemic in 2021.

In the grounds there is a fir tree which George Harrison gave to McCartney not long before his death in 2001.

McCartney also grows hemp on the farm, and hops, which a nearby brewer makes into limited-batch Old Stinkhorn ale for him.

Tucson Ranch

Around 1979, McCartney and Linda, now married for a decade, bought a 151-acre ranch in Arizona near the Tanque Verde River.

Like Blossom Wood and High Park farms, the ranch was a place to avoid the limelight and live a quiet life; although Linda was an East Coast American, born and raised in New York and Vermont, she attended university for a period in Arizona and loved riding horses in the state.

The Arizona ranch is set at the foothills of the Rincon Mountains, close to Redington Pass, and supposedly accessible by a dusty blacktop road from east Tucson (though it also has a helipad). It was here that Linda died from breast cancer in 1998, aged 56.

New York penthouse

In 2015, McCartney bought a glass-fronted New York penthouse for $15 million, selling it at a loss in March 2022 for just $8.5 million.

The two-storey apartment sat on Fifth Avenue and featured 40-foot, floor-to-ceiling windows. When he bought it with his current wife, Nancy Shevell, it reportedly hadn’t been renovated since the 1960s.

Amagansett, the Hamptons

McCartney also owns a house in Amagansett, near East Hampton on New York’s Long Island.

Last year, he made a surprise appearance at a tiny club in Amagansett, playing with record procuder Andrew Watt and the drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chad Smith, at the 250-capacity Stephen Townhouse.

He can also regularly be seen sailing around the area and spends time there in the summer.

Beverly Hills

According to reports, for some time McCartney owned a mansion up in Beverly Hills, in California, worth $20 million (around £15.6 million).

Per Architectural Digest when the house went up for sale again in 2023, it was built in 1941 for the man who played the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, Bert Lahr, and spans some 15,550 square feet.

Besides McCartney, the house has been variously inhabited and/or owned by Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, and Betty Grable.

The main house features seven bedrooms, though two of these are quarters for staff members.

An adjacent house includes another two beds, and a two-car garage. There’s also a swimming pool, tennis courts, two-land bowling alley and a putting green.

It was designed by the black architect Paul R. Williams, a trailblazer and a rarity for the 1940s, who also designed parts of Los Angeles International Airport and the Beverly Hills Hotel.