Funnyman Steve Harvey is the proud owner of a seriously magnificent mega mansion.
In 2020, the Family Feud star, 65, purchased the posh property that was once owned by movie mogul and fellow funnyman Tyler Perry.
Located in the upscale neighborhood of Buckhead in Atlanta, GA, the grand estate cost a cool $15 million, TMZ reports.
Aerial view of Steve Harvey’s house in Atlanta, a palatial mansion that was once owned by Tyler Perry. Photo credit: Realtor.com
Continue reading about the multi-million dollar digs that Steve, wife Marjorie, and their combined seven children call home.
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Steve Harvey’s sprawling Atlanta estate
Sitting on 17 acres, the nearly 35,000-square-foot mega mansion is located on prime land overlooking the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, GA.
“Tyler has a lot of great memories from the house and is happy his friends Steve and Marjorie will be calling it home,” a source told TMZ about the house’s former owners – and their reaction to the news that Steve Harvey will be making it his home.
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Steve Harvey’s house in Atlanta is a palatial 17-acre estate
Madea star Tyler Perry bought the palatial pad in 2005 for $9 million and spent millions on renovations.
Featuring 7 bedrooms and 9.5 bathrooms, the stunning estate features 17 acres of manicured lawns bordered by trimmed gardens.
Some of the other luxurious amenities include a 70,000-gallon infinity-edged swimming pool with a Versailles-style painting on the bottom, a lighted tennis court, and a fully equipped gym with a separate spa.
The plush property also offers a guesthouse, a guardhouse, and a detached caretaker suite, along with an advanced security system and a backup generator.
Key numbers & specs
- Location: Perry Faces Road, Atlanta, GA
- Bedrooms: 7
- Bathrooms: 14
- Square footage: 34,688
- Year built: 2007
- Lot size: 16.99 acres
- Amenities: resort-style 70,000-gallon infinity-edge swimming pool, lighted tennis court, fully equipped gym, spa, theater, indoor resistance pool, wine cellar, underground ballroom with catering kitchen
- Other structures: a pool house, guest house, carriage house
- Purchase price: $15,000,000 (May, 2020)
- Previous sale price: $17,500,000 (April, 2016)
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Property photos
Inside, the house isn’t too shabby either.
With a castle-like design based on the Palace of Versailles, the mega-mansion features several formal and informal living and entertaining spaces, a two-story library, a state-of-the-art theater, an indoor swimming pool, a wine cellar, and an underground ballroom complete with a catering kitchen.
The opulent double staircase welcoming residents and guests as soon as they step foot inside the Family Feud host’s mansion. Photo credit: Realtor.com
Each room is more elegant and luxurious than the next, with tall ceilings and windows. Photo credit: Realtor.com
The grand, two-story living room has beamed wood ceilings, an opulent chandelier, and double-story windows. Photo credit: Realtor.com
The wood-clad kitchen is anchored by a massive island with a marble countertop. Photo credit: Realtor.com
The primary bedroom has extra generous proportions, with large windows overlooking the sprawling grounds of the property. Photo credit: Realtor.com
The study matches the opulence we find in the rest of the house but takes it up a notch with its dramatic black, white, and red design. Photo credit: Realtor.com
And did we mention the runway for remote-controlled airplanes?
Who has lived in this mega-mansion?
While Perry purchased the palatial pad in 2007, he sold it in 2016 for $17.5 million to David Turner, a former businessman-turned-evangelist who made his fortune manufacturing dried fruit and nuts.
According to Dirt.com, Turner was divinely inspired at the time of the unprecedented sale.
“I went online and I saw this house, and that’s when I felt like God told me, ‘This is your house,’” Turner said.
God-inspired or not, this was the highest-priced home in the history of the city at the time. As it turns out, Turner sold to Harvey a few years later for $15 million, taking a $2.5 million financial hit from the sale.
Pool area outside the Atlanta mansion. Photo credit: Realtor.comThe many homes of Steve Harvey and Tyler Perry
While they’re also good pals, Steve Harvey and Tyler Perry are both into real estate investments.
With an estimated net worth of $1 billion, it’s no wonder that Tyler Perry is into mega-mansions.
Currently, he owns a 24,000 sq. ft. manor in the Beverly Hills area that he famously rented to royal couple Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for a few months in the spring of 2020, before the two royals moved to Montecito.
As for Harvey’s other holdings, the TV host owns another large house in Atlanta and he used to be the proud owner of a 6,500-square-foot, 5-bedroom, 6.5-bath estate in Little Elm, Texas.
The Family Feud host parted ways with his Texas house in 2020, selling the stone manor house for an undisclosed amount.
Steve Harvey’s former house in Texas, which he sold in 2020, shortly before buying his mega-mansion in Atlanta. Image credit: Realtor.com
And before buying his current compound in Atlanta, Harvey and his family of nine set up residence in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The Harveys rented in the exclusive Beverly Park guard-gated community for $100,000/ month, Dirt.com reports.
In 2013, Harvey purchased a 5,500 square-foot penthouse on the 88th floor of Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, Illinois, Velvet Ropes reports.
Harvey lived in the posh penthouse while filming his daytime talk show, The Steve Harvey Show. Then in 2018, he sold the luxury condo for $7.7 million.
Harvey’s mansion has since been dethroned as Atlanta’s most expensive house
When Tyler Perry sold the sprawling property back in 2016, the $17,500,000 price tag set a new local record, making the Perry Faces Road mansion the priciest house ever sold in Atlanta.
And it still held that title for a few years, even though Steve Harvey’s later purchase saw its price go down quite a bit. Harvey only paid $15 million for it, with seller David Turner (the televangelist who bought it off Perry for the record-setting amount) incurring a significant loss from the sale.
Just a year after the Family Feud host purchased it, Steve Harvey’s mansion was dethroned as Atlanta’s priciest home by another palatial property located just two miles away.
Set in Buckhead’s upscale Tuxedo Park neighborhood, the new record holder sold for $18.1 million, beating the Perry Faces Road mansion’s record by about $600,000.
And there are quite a few other upscale properties now gunning for the title — including a $46,800,000, 18-acre estate in North Buckhead. And we wouldn’t be all that surprised to see either Steve Harvey or Tyler Perry express interest in it at one point. After all, they’re still two of the biggest players in the local real estate landscape.