Steven Bartlett rents the big glass house he lives in when he is in Los Angeles. He does not own it. He has said so himself, and it is an easy detail to get wrong, because on paper the house looks like the kind of thing a podcast host with a nine-figure fortune would buy. It was on the market for $23.5 million. He rents it instead.
The house sits high in the Hollywood Hills, above the Chateau Marmont on Sunset. It was built in 2023. The listing describes seven bedrooms and eleven bathrooms across about 11,155 square feet, with a zero-edge pool, a home theater, a rooftop deck, and several kitchens. Bartlett moved to Los Angeles from London in July and took the house as his base, splitting time between the two cities with part of his podcast production staff. He has said the move was about guests: the conversations he wants to have are centered in LA.
He rents, he does not own
The distinction matters more than it sounds. Bartlett told Men's Health, in a tour of the house, that he was renting. The home was recently on the market for $23.5 million, and the monthly rent has been reported at about $55,000. A $23.5 million asking price and a $55,000 monthly rent line up with how the high end of the LA rental market works, where a house that could sell for tens of millions often rents for a single-digit percentage of its price each year.
County assessment data, which tracks the property for tax purposes, put the value near $19.38 million for 2025 with annual tax around $230,620. That is the tax world's view of the place. It is not a sign that Bartlett bought it, and it is not money in his pocket.
Men's Health visited the house in July, a few days after he moved in, for a profile by Mickey Rapkin. Bartlett walked the writer through a movie theater, the zero-edge pool, and what the piece counted as nearly a dozen bathrooms. He posed by the pool with the Hollywood Hills and the downtown skyline behind him. Bartlett posted the shoot to his own Instagram account that November, writing that Men's Health had stopped by his home in Los Angeles to talk about health, habits, and fitness.
Why he moved, and why he rents
The move was deliberate and it was recent. Bartlett came from London in July and took the house as a base, splitting his time between the two cities along with some of his podcast production staff from the UK. His reason was access to people. "In terms of the guests I want to have access to, and the conversations we want to have, we really felt the center of that world was L.A." he told Men's Health.
He was still settling in when the magazine arrived. The house had a movie theater and a zero-edge pool but no proper workout bench, and Bartlett had gotten as far as putting one in a DoorDash cart at eleven at night before deciding to hand the research to an assistant instead. It is a small detail, and it fits a man who had just landed somewhere rather than one who had bought a place and moved his life into it.
He could afford to buy. At 33 he is a household name in the UK from Dragons' Den, and The Diary of a CEO reaches about 50 million monthly listeners with 12 million YouTube subscribers and more than a billion lifetime streams. In August the show sat at number two in the United States, behind Joe Rogan. Where other hosts at that level sold to platforms, Alex Cooper taking $125 million from SiriusXM and Rogan up to $250 million from Spotify, Bartlett turned down a reported $100 million offer last year. He says two offers came in, and that he and his team can earn as much on their own.
He has also tried the other version of this. With his Social Chain money he bought a manor in the country, one he thinks had a tennis court, and it did not suit him. He described the feeling as playing castle. Renting a glass box in the hills while the money stays in the business he controls is the same instinct pointed in a more useful direction.
Why it is not part of his net worth
This is the part that a net worth site has to get right. A house you own is an asset. A house you lease is a monthly expense. Because Bartlett rents the LA house, it does not add to what he is worth, the way an owned property would. Renting does not build equity, and it does not sit on a balance sheet as something he owns.
His modeled net worth, about $457.6 million, is driven almost entirely by equity in his companies, not by real estate, which is what you would expect from someone who turned down nine figures to keep owning his show. On that page the only owned property the model counts is a London penthouse in the Canary Wharf area that doubles as the studio home of The Diary of a CEO, valued around $6.5 million. The LA house is a different story: expensive to rent, easy to mistake for a purchase, and not counted among his assets because he does not own it.
Photos of the house
All 75 listing photographs for the property, in the order they appear in the Zillow gallery.
Inside the Hollywood Hills house
All photos from the property listing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Steven Bartlett own a house in LA?
No. He rents the house in the Hollywood Hills above Chateau Marmont and has said so on the record. He moved from London in July and splits his time between cities with part of his podcast staff. Since he rents rather than owns, the property is not counted among his assets on his net worth page.
Where is Steven Bartlett's LA house?
It is a 2023-built home in the Hollywood Hills, on the West Hollywood side of Los Angeles, above the Chateau Marmont hotel on Sunset Boulevard.
How much is Steven Bartlett's LA house worth, and what does he pay in rent?
The house was on the market for $23.5 million and carries a county assessment near $19.38 million for 2025. Bartlett rents it rather than buying, with the monthly rent reported at about $55,000.
How big is Steven Bartlett's LA house?
The listing describes seven bedrooms and eleven bathrooms across about 11,155 square feet of living space, plus roughly 6,399 square feet of deck space. It has a zero-edge pool, a home theater, a rooftop deck, and multiple kitchens.
Is the LA house part of Steven Bartlett's net worth?
No. Because he rents it, the house is not an asset he owns, so it does not add to his modeled net worth of about $457.6 million. Renting a property and owning one are different things when you are counting what a person is worth.