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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s attempt to flip a $30 million Cotswolds farmhouse has been thwarted by floods, planning battles, an anemic property market—and the Romans

By Ashley Baker

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or chronic house flippers Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, the spoils of Hollywood have long been rivaled by the riches of real estate. Over the past two decades, the couple has bought and sold more than 30 homes in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Montecito, generally without much drama.

But then they came to the Cotswolds. When they purchased Kitesbridge Farm, in the summer of 2024, they intended to use it as a vacation home, hopscotching between the 16,600-square-foot estate and two palatial homes in California.

They were sufficiently taken with the place to pay $20 million—around $4 million over the asking price—for the 43-acre complex in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, where neighbors include READ ON