Where Does Chris Evert Live in Florida? Her Boca Raton Homes

Where does Chris Evert live? The 18-time Grand Slam champion lives in Boca Raton, Florida, a city she has called home since the early 2000s. Reporting says she owns a waterfront house there, and until a few years ago she also owned a five-acre estate with its own tennis court in west Boca. She listed that estate in 2018 for just under $5 million and sold it for nearly $4 million. Here is what public reporting says about both homes, her academy in the city, and what Boca Raton property costs today.

Key takeaways

• Chris Evert's home is a waterfront house in Boca Raton, per county records cited by the Sun Sentinel.
• She sold her five-acre west Boca estate for nearly $4 million, after buying it in 2003 for $2.8 million.
• That estate ran about 12,296 square feet with eight bedrooms, a tennis court, a putting green and a nine-car garage.
• Boca Raton has about 2,117 active listings with a median list price near $550,000, per our MLS feed as of September 2026.

Where does Chris Evert live in Florida?

Evert lives in Boca Raton, in southern Palm Beach County. The Sun Sentinel reported, when she sold her big estate, that county records showed she owned another waterfront home in the city. That is the house she has kept. Pure Equity does not publish private addresses, so we will not narrow it past the city and the water.

Boca Raton has been her base for decades. She grew up 20 miles south in Fort Lauderdale, where her father, Jimmy Evert, taught tennis at the public courts of Holiday Park for more than 40 years. The city later named the center after him. Boca is where she built her adult life: her academy, her sons' schools and her broadcasting work for ESPN all run from there.

The city suits a tennis person. The Evert Tennis Academy, which she founded with her brother John in the 1990s, sits on the west side of Boca. Several touring pros train in the area, and the Delray Beach Open is 15 minutes north. For a former world number one who still works in the sport, there are few better places to be.

Inside the estate she sold

The house that made real estate headlines was a five-acre spread in the horse-country pocket of west Boca Raton. Evert bought it in July 2003 for $2.8 million, according to the Sun Sentinel, during her marriage to Olympic skier Andy Mill. She raised her three sons there.

The main house and guest home totaled about 12,296 square feet, with eight bedrooms and seven and a half baths. Outside there was a tennis court, a putting green, a pool and a nine-car garage with guest quarters above it. Forbes covered the listing in May 2018 under a headline about the fond memories she attached to the place.

The asking price was $4.999 million. Fox News reported a higher figure of about $6 million at one point, so the listing may have started higher before the cut. The house sat for more than two years and sold for nearly $4 million, per the Sun Sentinel. That is a gain on the 2003 price, but a long wait and a 20 percent discount from the ask. The west Boca acreage market has always worked that way. Lots of that size sit outside the gated golf communities that most Boca buyers shop, so the pool of people who want five acres and a court is small, and the ones who do want it take their time.

The waterfront home she kept

Reporting on the second home is limited to a line in the sale coverage: records show she owns another waterfront house in Boca Raton. The city has two kinds of waterfront, the Intracoastal canals east of Federal Highway and the ocean itself. Neighborhoods like Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club and The Sanctuary hold most of the deep-water lots. We do not know which she chose, and we will not guess.

What the pattern shows is a downsizing. A five-acre estate with a court makes sense for a family of five and a full-time coach. A waterfront house makes sense for a broadcaster whose sons are grown. Evert was in her mid-60s when the estate sold, and the move fits that stage.

Why Chris Evert chose Boca Raton

The reasons are all on the record. First, family. Her family stayed in Fort Lauderdale, and Boca kept her close. Second, work. The academy she runs with her brother is in the city, and it has been her main business since she retired from the tour in 1989.

Third, the tennis culture. Boca Raton has hosted pro events, is home to dozens of private clubs with courts, and sits between the two big airports she uses for ESPN assignments. She has never needed to leave. Reports over the years have placed her in Aspen during her marriage to Mill, but Florida has been the constant.

Where else does Chris Evert live?

No second home outside Florida is currently reported. During the years she was married to Mill, the couple spent time in Aspen, Colorado, where he lived and worked, but that ended with their divorce in 2006. Since then every account of her life has put her in Boca Raton.

She travels for broadcasting, covering the majors for ESPN, and she has been open about health treatment in recent years. Through all of it, Boca has stayed the home base. That makes her one of the longest-tenured famous residents in the city. Boca Raton has drawn plenty of athletes since, but few have stayed as long or run a business there as visible as her academy.

What homes near Chris Evert cost

Boca Raton is a large market. Our MLS feed as of September 2026 shows about 2,117 active listings with a median list price near $550,000 and an average of about 109 days on the market. That median covers everything from condos near the beach to the big estates west of the turnpike.

The two ends of her own story sit far above it. Five-acre estates in west Boca are rare, and our homes with acreage hub tracks the few that list. Waterfront homes in the east-side yacht communities run into the millions, and our waterfront homes hub covers them. To the south, Fort Lauderdale, where she grew up, has about 3,389 listings with a median near $679,000.

For owners, her estate sale carries a lesson. A very specific property, with a tennis court and five acres, draws a very small buyer pool. It sold, but it took two years and a real price cut. Waterfront homes in Boca move faster because the pool of buyers who want a dock is much larger. If you own a property with an unusual feature, the honest comps are the handful of similar sales over several years, not the busy condo market a mile away. Pricing to the specialty pool from day one avoids the long slide her estate went through.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Chris Evert live now?

In Boca Raton, Florida, in a waterfront home she has owned for years. She sold her larger west Boca estate around 2020.

Where in Boca Raton does Chris Evert live?

On the water, per county records cited by the Sun Sentinel. The neighborhood is not reported, and Pure Equity does not publish private addresses.

Where does Chris Evert live full time?

Boca Raton is her only reported home. She travels for ESPN during the Grand Slams but has lived in the city full time for more than 20 years.

How much did Chris Evert sell the Boca Raton estate for?

Nearly $4 million, according to the Sun Sentinel. She had bought it in 2003 for $2.8 million and listed it in 2018 at $4.999 million.

Does Chris Evert still own a home in Boca Raton?

Yes. Records cited at the time of the sale showed she owned a second, waterfront home in the city, and no sale of that one has been reported.

Can you buy a home near Chris Evert?

Yes. Boca Raton has more than 2,000 active listings at any time, and waterfront homes come up regularly in the east-side communities.

Own a home in Boca Raton, Delray Beach or elsewhere in Palm Beach County? Request a free home valuation from Pure Equity and find out what it is worth today. Buyers can browse Boca Raton listings or see luxury homes across South Florida. Two younger champions live nearby: read where Coco Gauff lives and where Serena Williams lives.

Sources

• Forbes, Tennis legend Chris Evert lists her beloved Boca Raton estate (2018)
• Sun Sentinel (syndicated), Retired tennis superstar Chris Evert sells Boca Raton estate
• Profile Miami, Chris Evert's Boca Raton estate hits the market for $4.999 million (2018)
• Fox News, Chris Evert serves up her Boca Raton estate for $6M

Based on publicly reported information; details may change and are not independently verified by Pure Equity. We do not publish private addresses.