It should come as little surprise that someone with as much money as Ron Howard has invested in some pretty swanky properties. His first major purchase was a ranch-style home in the suburbs of L.A. that he snapped up during his "Happy Days" era, per the Los Angeles Times. He reportedly paid a little over $500,000 for it but sold the home for nearly a $300,000 profit in 1986.

Aside from the L.A. pad, Howard's biggest investment to date has been in a multi-million dollar compound on the Connecticut-New York border. Howard and his wife Cheryl purchased the 6-bedroom property in 1991 as a place to raise their kids away from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. The property included a yoga room, tennis court, indoor pool, 2-story library, 14-seat movie theater, and a professional-grade observatory, per Business Insider.

Howard and Cheryl parted with the property in 2014 for a cool $27.5 million. The couple relocated to another (presumably smaller) property in Connecticut while keeping a penthouse in New York City, of course. However, in 2017 they put the city pad on the market for $12.5 million, per Variety.

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