“Gravity” came out when I was in school and something about that song just stuck. Years later I found myself reading about where John Mayer lives between tours and the answer turned out to be two completely different worlds sitting about 1,200 miles apart.
The Beverly Hills House He Bought From Adam Levine
Mayer went out and paid $13.5 million for a place in Wallingford Estates in 2018.
It sits inside a gated community in the Benedict Canyon area of Beverly Hills on 3.6 acres of land and the house covers 7,100 square feet.
Adam Levine had owned it before him and bought it back in 2012 then immediately got the whole structure rebuilt from scratch.
Levine hired designer Mark Haddawy to tear out most of the interior walls and turn a 1940s ranch house into a glassy single-bedroom structure built entirely around a bachelor lifestyle. Most of the ground floor opens into one large great room with a massive stone fireplace that stays open to the kitchen and dining area on either side. After Levine and his wife had their second child the single-bedroom layout stopped working for the family and they put it on the market.
The property now runs five bedrooms and seven bathrooms across the same footprint. Out in the grounds there is a two-story car collector’s garage with an elevated lift inside it, a speakeasy-style card room, a home theater, a gym, a basketball court, a pool and a spa.
The Montana Estate He Built to Heal
That main house on the property came out at 12,000 square feet and Mayer had it built using logs and stone with modern finishes running through the interior.
The ceilings inside go up double height and the windows are large enough that the mountains outside become part of the room.
His bedroom suite sits at the top with the mountain view going straight out from it and a spa bathroom fitted inside.
A separate 1,800-square-foot barn on the property got converted into a professional recording studio by Kaufman and Associates with a dedicated entry for collaborators so visitors can come and go without going through the main residence.
Mayer has said publicly that he has never had a panic attack at this property and that Montana was where he genuinely grew up. He goes to Albertsons for groceries and wears western hats to local steakhouses and by all accounts means it.
Earlier Properties
Mayer once owned a corner apartment at 225 Lafayette Street in Nolita, New York and the unit covered 2,063 square feet.
The building was originally designed by architect Cass Gilbert and Mayer picked the apartment up in 2005 for $2.17 million.
He sold it in 2013 for just under $3.91 million.
The journey started in a basic apartment on The Falls Parkway in Duluth, Georgia after he left Berklee College of Music without finishing his degree. The gap between that and a $13.5 million Beverly Hills estate is one of the more interesting journeys in the music industry.
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