Ellen DeGeneres has made millions buying and selling luxury properties - here are some of the most lavish homes she's flipped

Purchased: $1.275 millionSold: $2.1 million This property in Laurel Canyon — nicknamed The Treehouse — has an impressive lineup of past owners. But DeGeneres started the trend in 2004, purchasing the hidden, woodsy bungalow for just over a million dollars. According to Variety, she gave it a Zen-modern makeover and sold it to director David Weissman a year later, for almost a million more. Since then, it has been owned by Heath Ledger, Adrian Bellani, and is currently home to Josh Hutcherson.Purchased: $15,750,000 Sold: $20 million This sprawling Montecito estate is Southern California at its finest — so fine, in fact, that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt bought the property from Ellen in 2007 for a whopping $20 million. It has since become infamous for being the location of Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian's 2011 wedding. Schmidt reportedly considered selling it afterwards, as the mansion — which had been a popular wedding venue — was suddenly viewed as unlucky.Purchased: A combined $48 millionSold: $37 million DeGeneres and de Rossi bought this estate's original property for $29 million — until they decided to merge it with three adjacent homes, nearly doubling its value. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the couple spent five years in the 9,200-square-foot compound, eventually selling it to Ryan Seacrest in 2012. This sale, however, marked a rare loss in profit for DeGeneres — most likely due to the drop in Los Angeles housing prices at the time. Take a look inside here.Purchased: $12 millionSold: $13 million In 2011, the DeGeneres couple made a cool million on this chic Malibu property, which was previously owned by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Despite its amazing amenities — including backyard beach access, a private beach cove, and a tennis court — the couple stayed there for less than a year, eventually quietly selling in 2012. According to Zillow, they may have been disenchanted with the property because there wasn’t much to fix up, as Pitt and Jolie had already renovated.Purchased: $8.5 million Sold: $10.85 million Located just north of Los Angeles, this 26-acre horse ranch had a rich history long before DeGeneres and De Rossi decided to call it home in 2008. Built in the 1920s as an estate for actor William Powell, the ranch, according to Vogue, was both a monastery and a rehab center in the past. The property features several barns and stables, and it was completely revamped by the DeGenereses in just 12 months. The couple apparently lived in every cabin as [they] decorated and restored them one by one. The flip paid off, with an almost $3-million profit. Purchased: $17.4 millionSold: $20 million The Trousdale Estates neighborhood is described by The New York Times as ultrachic — so it's no surprise the area attracted DeGeneres' keen eye. In 2012, she purchased the Hal Levitt house or Skouras residence, which was designed by coveted California architect Hal Levitt, and was once photographed for a Versace campaign. The house was a personal favorite of DeGeneres', and she told the Times blog in 2013, I love everything Hal Levitt did. And to be in a community where people feel the same way about architecture is fantastic. Regardless, the couple sold the mid-century stunner in 2013 and made just shy of $3 million in profit.Purchased: $39.88 millionSold: $55 million One of the DeGeneres' most successful flips to date, the Brody House in Holmby Hills, California, is nothing short of legendary. It was built in 1949 for the wealthy, art-collecting couple Sidney and Frances Brody, who personally commissioned a Matisse for the backyard. The executive director of the Los Angeles Conservancy, Linda Dishman, told The New York Times it is one of the top five homes in the city. DeGeneres and de Rossi eventually felt like custodians to an important piece of architecture, so they sold the estate to Napster founder Sean Parker about seven months after moving in — pocketing a whopping $15 million in the process. Purchased: $7.195 millionSold: $11 million The couple snagged a $4 million profit from this recent, off-market sell in 2018. The rustic Santa Barbara estate is located in a notoriously pricey area — and is neighbor to Oprah Winfrey's The Promised Land estate. It now belongs to Sean Rad, the founder and Chairman of Tinder, according to Variety.In addition to selling properties, Ellen has ventured into renting and leasing: Nick Jonas was one of her tenants in 2015. He described living in one of DeGeneres' fully furnished properties on her talk show: I'm so nervous though the whole time I'm there because I know I'm gonna come on the show and see you and check in, and if anything's wrong with the house it's bad.In her TODAY interview, DeGeneres remarked on how thankful she is that she now gets to own homes. Growing up, her family didn’t have a lot of money — which sparked a reverence for real estate in the young star. We lived in apartments, DeGeneres said. We would look at houses every Sunday, we would go to open houses, but we could never afford a house. As a kid, I thought — 'That’s going to be my house.' Now, I just buy as many houses as I can.

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Ellen DeGeneres has made millions buying and selling luxury properties - here are some of the most lavish homes she's flipped

2004: "The Treehouse"

2007: Montecito mansion

2008: Beverly Hills compound

2011: Malibu beach house

2013: Thousand Oaks horse ranch

2013: The “Skouras Residence,” designed by Hal Levitt

2014: The Brody House

2017: Rancho San Leandro

In 2015, she rented a property to Nick Jonas.

Ultimately, Ellen DeGeneres has spent at least $145 million flipping houses — and has profited millions in return.