Published on July 17, 2026
By Abby Montanez
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The nominations for the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards are in, with hits including Hacks, Beef, Only Murders in the Building, and Your Friends & Neighbors all earning recognition. While the performances and writing may be what landed these TV shows on the ballot, their real estate deserves a little attention too. Rather than building every lavish living room and sweeping residence on a soundstage, productions often turn to real-life properties that help define their characters and set the tone. From a paparazzi-famous Tribeca loft and a Malibu blufftop mansion to Newport’s Gilded Age estates and one of Manhattan’s most iconic apartment buildings, these are the real homes behind some of this year’s biggest Emmy contenders.
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette
Before there was quiet luxury, there was John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Tribeca loft. Of all the homes in Kennedy’s real estate portfolio, none is more closely associated with the couple than 20 North Moore Street. Kennedy bought the converted warehouse apartment in 1994 for about $700,000, and after the pair married in 1996, it became one of Manhattan’s most photographed buildings. FX’s Love Storyreportedly filmed exterior scenes at the actual address, while the loft itself was recreated on a soundstage using archival photos and real estate listings.
Nobody Wants This
Joanne’s (Kristen Bell) charming Los Angeles home in Netflix’s Nobody Wants This is actually a 1926 Mediterranean bungalow in the city’s Carthay neighborhood near LACMA. Designer David Lucido transformed the 3,776-square-foot house with imported Saltillo tile floors, custom plaster walls, four bedrooms, a detached guesthouse, and a pool. For the series, producers layered in colorful furnishings and built the sisters’ podcast studio inside. The home hit the market in 2025 before eventually selling for $3.2 million.
Beef
One of the most striking homes in Beefseason two belongs to Chairwoman Park, played by Youn Yuh-jung. The minimalist Malibu rental is actually the Ellice Mansion, a more than 12,000-square-foot estate overlooking the Pacific. Designed with input from electronic music producer Skrillex, who sold it for $17.5 million in 2021, the property includes six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, dual kitchens, a theater, gym, sauna, and an infinity pool. Fans can even <a href="https://nightfallgroup.com/villa/the-ellice-mansion/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>rentthe home through Nightfall Group, with nightly rates starting around $10,000.
The season also features several other noteworthy residences. Lindsay (Carey Mulligan) and Josh’s (Oscar Isaac) cozy Ojai home was actually filmed at a residence in Calabasas, with production designer Grace Yun incorporating English cottage-inspired interior details to reflect Lindsay’s British roots. Troy’s lavish Mulholland Highway mansion serves as the home of William Fichtner’s wealthy character, while the billionaire’s private ski retreat in Park City was filmed at an estate in Thousand Oaks, California.
Your Friends & Neighbors
Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighborsuses real luxury homes to quietly establish each character’s place in the social pecking order. Starring Jon Hamm as a disgraced hedge fund manager who turns to robbing his wealthy neighbors, the dark suburban drama was filmed across Westchester, Long Island, the Hamptons, and Manhattan. The biggest standout is Spring Ivy, a nearly 25,000-square-foot mansion in Old Westbury that’s currently listed for $28 million after selling for $38.8 million in 2023. The Gold Coast estate packs in everything from an indoor basketball court and bowling alley to a golf simulator and private par-3 hole. Other filming locations include a 10,100-square-foot home in Purchase, the historic Framewood estate in Upper Brookville, a waterfront house in Quogue, and a penthouse atop 252 East 57th Street.
Hacks
Bob Lipka’s (Tony Goldwyn) house in Hacks is exactly what you’d expect from a media mogul. The 1935 Brentwood villa, where Lipka hosts his lavish parties, was designed by legendary architect Paul R. Williams. Its Hollywood Regency interiors are matched by a grand outdoor staircase, manicured gardens, and even a two-story waterslide behind the pool
The HBO Max comedy starring Jean Smart also showcases several other standout residences, including Deborah Vance’s 1915 Spanish Colonial Revival mansion in Altadena, Winnie Landell’s (Helen Hunt) Stanley House—a sleek midcentury modern home designed by XTEN Architecture and Lenny Kravitz that sold for $33 million—and the Hollywood Hills rental where Dance Mom (Julianne Nicholson) holes up during her stay in Los Angeles. While the show claims the six-bedroom home is rented from Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo, the real property was recently listed for $125,000 a month.
All Her Fault
Although All Her Fault unfolds in suburban Chicago, much of the Peacock thriller starring Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning was actually filmed in Australia, using several striking real-life homes throughout the series. Marissa Irvine’s family home is a 16-acre estate on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula that sold in 2022 for between AUD 25 million and 27 million (about $18 million to $19.5 million). Along with a five-bedroom residence redesigned by Sabrina Caisson, the property includes an infinity pool, a tennis court, soccer field, and horse stables that house a cocktail lounge and golf simulator. The Kaminski family’s home couldn’t be more different. Known as Hawthorn House, the 7,300-square-foot residence is wrapped in raw concrete walls and private courtyards.
Only Murders in the Building
Few television apartment buildings are as recognizable as the Arconia. While the beloved residence in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, is fictional, its exterior is filmed at the Belnord, the massive 1909 apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side known for its enormous private courtyard. The apartments themselves are recreated on soundstages, but the building remains one of the city’s most desirable addresses. Martha Stewart even bought a 4,600-square-foot duplex there in 2024 for $12.3 million.
The Gilded Age
When it comes to lavish estates, few productions can rival The Gilded Age. Rather than relying on elaborate sets, the period drama starring Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, and Cynthia Nixon films inside some of America’s grandest surviving properties, including Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown and Newport landmarks like Rosecliff, the Breakers, the Elms, Belcourt, and Château-sur-Mer. The Breakers, Richard Morris Hunt’s iconic 70-room Vanderbilt mansion, hosts some of the show’s biggest party scenes, while the other estates are used for everything from elegant drawing rooms to servants’ quarters.
The Beast in Me
Set in Oyster Bay, New York, The Beast in Me instead found many of its most impressive homes across northern New Jersey. The Netflix thriller starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys uses a 4,700-square-foot residence in West Orange for Aggie’s home before shifting to Blairsden, a sprawling Beaux-Arts mansion in Somerset County, for Nile Jarvis’s wealthy family. The estate spans roughly 62,000 square feet with 31 bedrooms, marble-lined interiors, and sweeping views over Ravine Lake
