The billionaire and entrepreneur manager Ken Griffin continues to build his real estate portfolio by buying and selling properties around the world. But not only every property will do. Griffin is obviously attracted to real estate deals, including huge price labels.
His latest purchases can shed light on where the cash set for their future real estate finds can be turned. Griffin Bump markets can be perceived as desired if such a large investor buys there.
However, this is supposed that he is not the only person in the city to grab $ 100 million homes – a danger cited in a recent Wall Street Journal article about the growing Griffin real estate empire and its effect on the luxury real estate market. Nevertheless, Griffin is known as one of the most fruitful real estate buyers.
With this in mind, we decided to take a closer look at some of his last acquisitions to see how they are arranged in the potential for profit, loss or pleasure.
1. Palm Beach, Florida
While it is still being built, this is an epic mansion in the creation. If Griffin follows his reported plans for the construction of a $ 150 million house – $ 400 million at $ 8 out of $ 27 acres of Prime Palm Beach, which he purchased in 2023, this will be one of the most price on the planet, entering approximately $ 1 billion after graduation.
(Stoev Design Group, courtesy of Palm Beach)
Located on the South Ocean Boulevard in an area known as the Billionaires, the dwelling place of the home will first serve as a residence for Griffin’s mother. The estimated 50,000 square feet of the shore have both ocean and lake views, as well as a spa, pool and abundant gardens.
Transform the main room of Griffin Palm Beach Email
With such an expense of funds, can this property ever appreciate? This remains to be seen, but this may not be the meaning of Griffin’s purchases.
“Anyone who aims to build the most expensive property in the world is not focused on the investment side,” says the luxury real estate broker Samantha DebianchiBravo TV’s glory of “Million Dollars for Listing Millions of Dollars”. “Palm Beach is an elite area of” Who is “and the home of some of the most spectacular properties in the world – and naturally Ken wants his property to be the central part.”
Considering Debianchi says Palm Beach has appreciated an incredible amount only in the last five years.
“There is migration from New York and California in areas such as Palm Beach, and although I do not necessarily feel California and New York have broken down for billionaires, there is a strong increase in interest and in general demand and attention in markets like Palm Beach, Miami, etc. – and this is something we didn’t see and heard so much before.”
The bottom line: Although it seems that the construction of Palm Beach on Griffin is not necessarily for investment purposes, it also does not hurt that it is in one of the most desirable and exceptional markets in the United States.
2. New York, New York
Speaking of billionaires, it seems that Griffin likes to live in buildings or areas that show that he is “one of them.” In New York to be “part of it” means having a Manhattan billionaire apartment – a cluster of skyscrapers and apartments in the area around Columbus Circle, 57th Street, South Park and Avenue Park.
With his 238 million dollars Condo deal for squares of $ 50 to $ 53 in 220 Central Park South, Griffin took the record in 2019 for the highest price ever purchased in the United States. “Starchitect” Robert Am Stern to nearly $ 244 million.
(Realtor.com/nest Seekers International, Midtown)
This acquisition of 24,000 square meters not only cemented Griffin as part of Manhattan’s billionaire club, but also gave him Sting and his wife, Trudy Stealeras neighbors in the same building.
It wasn’t enough, Griffin had just purchased another cooperative in New York at 740 Park Ave. According to the Wall Street Journal. In February 2025 he took the duplex for $ 45 million from Julia Kochwidow of a billionaire industrialist David KochIn what is known as the best cooperative Manhattan building. (The best Manhattan apartment, which is 220 Central Park South, is now part of Griffin’s real estate portfolio.)
So, is this potentially a good investment?
“Billionaires are attracted to markets like New York for a combination of financial, lifestyle and strategic reasons,” says Scott BennettManagement of Special Assets Management for Wells Fargo. “The main real estate in these places can also be considered as a safe retaining asylum.”
In other words, Griffin is unlikely to lose money by buying the big apple.
3. Chicago, The
For nearly three decades, Griffin’s citadel’s offices have been based in Chicago. As such, Griffin owned some impressive properties in his Windy City portfolio.
Among his possessions were four units on the full floor in the center of Walton’s tower No. 9, which included the two best maisonettes on the 38th and 39th floors. At the time of his purchase in 2017, for $ 58.78 million, Griffin set another record for the highest real estate deal in the city.
(Realtor.com/jameson Sotheby’s International Realty)
However, Griffin seems to have put in Chicago. He recently influenced one of the few real estate deals in which he took a huge blow, selling the maisonette floors of $ 9 for $ 19 million – 44% of a loss of $ 34 million, which he paid for these two units in 2017, he sold two additional floors in April 2025 for $ 15.9 million.
Griffin also unloaded its 37th floor, five bedrooms, 7,400 square feet Chicago Waldorf Astoria residence for $ 10.2 million in 2022, which was about $ 3 million a loss. His willingness to release these properties seems to increase his desire to leave Illinois.
The Chicago area is having a huge delay in the Ultraluxury real estate market, according to the magazine. But some of the players with high bets are still stable.
An example? In a reversal of the fate of real estate, the buyer of Penthhaus # 9 of Griffin was nothing but Illinois Governor JB Pritzker-with whom Griffin apparently had a long -standing feud.
The reality is that Griffin took a loss in Chicago mainly because of his desire to sell. For him, it was a bigger impetus than profit. Also, the loss of several million dollars will not make a dent in its overall portfolio.
4. Miami, ET
In 2022, Griffin moved the Miami Citadel headquarters, which led to the fact that he reinvested his sales in Chicago at Sunshine State Real Estate.
Not only is Griffin a building of a 54-storey glass tower in the center of Miami-who will include two restaurants and a hotel on the roof-but he clicks for real estate for himself.
A little further south of the city center, in the Miami-Dad region, Griffin set another record in the area when he raised two houses from the Coconut Grove, FL, for $ 106.9 million in 2022. This is an additional 25,000 square meters of living space in Florida (only 12 bedrooms).
Then there are the seven neighboring properties (about 6.5 acres) Griffin acquired on Miami’s exclusive Star Island, dropping approximately $ 169 million for several transactions since 2023.
Griffin spokesman Aunt Ahmed He recently told the magazine that Griffin mostly bought “one-of-a-kind property and plots on the shore of the ocean, which are inherently limited supplies and therefore will probably continue to increase in value”, but it is also aimed at areas where he travels to work and this will serve as his family for years.
Given longevity, potential climate change can be something that should be taken into account when it comes to protecting its investment.
“The climate change is real, but the billionaires are more focused on ‘now’ than the future,” says Debianchi. “With this, people are more educated in terms of climate change, they build their properties more than before -creating with higher elevations, raising the marine walls.”
In fact, Palm Beach Daily News reports that Griffin plans to replace the groin-structures that run out of the beach that captures sand and prevents erosion-front of its billion dollars, so that it can keep up with its investments as well as enjoy them.
“When you spend millions of dollars on land alone, you will also spend a lot on the right infrastructure and protection for everything you decide to build,” says Debianchi.
5. Saint-Tropez, Aspen and Hamptons
While many of Griffin’s real estate purchases focus on his work, it is clear that he also likes to raise places for “play”. It seems that there is a tendency with some of his last acquisitions in places that are less “subway”.
In June, Griffin finalized the purchase of a French Riviera property for $ 90 million. It consists of at least four structures on Tahiti Beach in Saint -Tropez.
Another beach purchase was Calvin KleinThe former Hampatt mansion right at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic for $ 84.4 million. Located in the Southampton Meadow Lane section, which is essentially known as “billionaires on the beach”.
In cooler air conditions, Griffin has a relatively modest multimillion-dollar home in Aspen, Colorado, so it’s definitely not all the work and does not play when it comes to Griffin’s real estate possessions.
However, there may be other motives behind some of his purchases “pleasure”.
“There is a perception of prestige to possess high -end real estate in these markets, whether due to access to luxury shopping, dining and entertainment from the world -class, high -life beach life or closeness to other influential and wealthy people,” says Bennett Fargo. “The property of the show is more about luxury and lifestyle, in which the inherent financial return can be a secondary goal.”
Bennett says that this can lead to a higher level of risk in the acquisition of the property in exchange for the “status” or the personal pleasure that the property provides.
The bottom line, however, is that where Griffin decides to live, he has more opportunities than almost any other human being on the planet and that must be pleasant.