Justin Verlander’s baseball career took him all over the map, and the homes he built with Kate Upton followed right along.
From California to Florida to New York, the newly retired pitcher and his wife have put together a real estate portfolio that tracks the arc of his MLB life - and then some. Their list includes a Beverly Hills mansion with a serious celebrity past, a waterfront setup in Jupiter, and a $15.3 million Upper East Side penthouse built for family life, not just polish.
One of the biggest stops came in 2016, when Verlander and Upton paid $5.25 million for a traditional-style Beverly Hills home in Benedict Canyon. The 5,521-square-foot property sat on a gated 1.5-acre lot and included four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a pool, spa, tennis court and rose gardens.
The pedigree of the house was almost as eye-catching as the property itself. Before the couple bought it, it had belonged to Kenny G, Pete Sampras, Kate Jackson, William Asher and Jon Peters.
Verlander and Upton made the place their own, including a renovation of the eat-in kitchen. When they were ready to move on in 2022, they listed the home for $11.7 million. Timothée Chalamet eventually bought it for $11 million, giving the couple a sale that came in at more than double what they had paid six years earlier.
By then, they had already planted roots in Florida. In 2020, they bought a 2.19-acre riverfront lot in Jupiter for $3.45 million. The next year, they added another Jupiter property, paying $6.55 million for a mansion after previously renting in Palm Beach Gardens.
That home, built in 2015, measures about 4,600 square feet and sits on 1.25 acres along the Loxahatchee River. It has four bedrooms and four bathrooms, plus a boat dock, putting green and a swimming pool with fiber-optic lighting.
For Verlander, Florida also lined up neatly with his playing life. He spent parts of seven seasons with the Houston Astros across two stints before eventually returning to Detroit for the final chapter of his career.
His move to the Mets brought the latest major addition to the couple’s property list. After signing with New York ahead of the 2023 season, Verlander and Upton bought a $15.3 million penthouse on the Upper East Side. The four-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom residence covers 4,141 square feet and includes three private terraces with views toward the East River and Central Park.
But this wasn’t designed as a museum piece. Working with interior designer John Ruggiero, the couple filled the apartment with bold color and personality, including a berry-toned lounge, a deep green kitchen and a vivid blue primary bedroom.
“There’s no off-limit zone in this apartment,” Upton told Architectural Digest when the home was featured in 2026. “Everything the kids can get in, can get dirty, can have fun with.
That was really important to us. We live hard in this apartment-and it still looks great.”
That fits where they are now. Verlander and Upton, who married in 2017, have daughter Genevieve and son Bellamy. After years of baseball deciding where the family needed to live next, retirement gives Verlander something he almost never had during his career: an offseason with no next season hanging over it.
And with homes in Beverly Hills, Jupiter and Manhattan, the couple has plenty of places to spend it.
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