GTA 4 Safehouses and Save Locations

Given by	The story itself, for free, after certain missions
Opens after	The Cousins Bellic for the first one, then one new place after a few later missions
Counts toward 100%	No. You never have to visit a safehouse for the checklist, but you will want one for saving and changing clothes.
Reward	A bed to save in, a wardrobe, a TV and a parking spot out front

The apartment building that holds the Middle Park East safehouse

GTA 4 gives Niko five safehouses. One burns down early, one only appears if you make a certain choice, and you pay for none of them. The story hands each one over when you finish a particular mission, and a notice tells you when it’s yours. A safehouse is where you save the game, change clothes and park a vehicle you want to keep.

Help text in Niko's first apartment says the flashing marker shows the entrance and that you can save the game here.

A notice says you now have a safehouse in Bohan as Niko drives a red car at night.

Safehouse	Where	Opens after	Jump to
Broker apartment	Mohawk Ave and Bart Street, Hove Beach, Broker	The Cousins Bellic	Broker apartment
South Bohan apartment	Joliet St and Rocket St, South Bohan, Bohan	Roman’s Sorrow	South Bohan apartment
Middle Park East loft	Albany Ave and Pyrite St, Middle Park East, Algonquin	Hostile Negotiation	Middle Park East loft
Northwood penthouse	Xenotime St and Galveston Ave, North Holland, Algonquin	The Holland Play, on one choice only	Penthouse
Alderney apartment	Mahesh Ave, Alderney City, Alderney	Smackdown and A Long Way to Fall	Alderney apartment

How saving works

Walk to the bed inside any safehouse and pick the sleep option. The game saves, and time jumps ahead by six hours. That’s how you save by hand, so if you’ve done something you don’t want to repeat, go to bed. Look for the safehouse blip on the radar to find the front door of whichever apartment you’ve unlocked.

Niko stands just inside the small Hove Beach flat beside a suitcase and a fridge.

A low bed on a cowhide rug in the loft bedroom, with a tapestry on the brick wall.

The open loft with a dining table, a long sofa and tall factory windows.

Parking outside

Every safehouse has a marked spot on the street outside, with yellow lines and a sign reading Residents Parking Only. Leave a car there, get out, and the game will keep it for you. Each spot takes two cars, or a small group of bikes, and a helicopter such as the Maverick or Annihilator will sit there too. If the vehicle was beaten up, it repairs itself once you leave the area or reload your save. The spots work from the start of the story, even before you own the apartment, and the Broker one keeps working after that apartment burns down.

A taxi sits parked on a dark Hove Beach street under the elevated rail line.

Help text explains you can leave any vehicle in the parking spot outside your safehouse.

A brick apartment block under the elevated line, with Residents Parking Only painted on the road.

What you can do inside

Each apartment has a working TV and a wardrobe for changing Niko’s clothes. Only the Middle Park East loft has a computer with internet access. If you spared Playboy X, the Northwood penthouse can’t save for you, but the parking spot outside still works.

Niko stands in his flat beside a sofa bed and a tall wardrobe with a yellow marker, reading a phone message.

A big open penthouse with a pool table, sofas and a kitchen island under hanging lamps.

A red brick apartment block on a street corner with a limousine passing in front.

All 5 safehouses

Broker apartment

This is Niko’s first home, a small flat in Hove Beach, Broker, on the corner of Mohawk Avenue and Bart Street. You get it at the end of The Cousins Bellic, and the game walks you through saving and parking here. You lose the flat after Roman’s Sorrow, but the street parking spot stays yours.

Niko walks out of his Hove Beach apartment with the objective to go see Roman.

A bare bulb lights the narrow kitchen of the Broker flat, with an old fridge and a small table.

The cramped living room of the Broker flat, with a sofa bed, an armchair and a rug.

South Bohan apartment

Finish Roman’s Sorrow and Mallorie’s cousin lends you a flat on the second floor of a worn tenement on the east side of Joliet Street, in South Bohan. There’s a back door that leads to a small yard. The spot out front holds two cars or three bikes.

A red Coquette idles at a stop sign on a quiet South Bohan street near the new safehouse.

Niko stands in the kitchen of his South Bohan apartment beside a blue door while his phone shows a message.

A worn dark brick tenement with fire escapes and office space for rent signs on a Bohan street.

Roman and Niko look around the shabby South Bohan flat.

Middle Park East loft

Middle Park East apartment block from the street

This is a bright loft in Middle Park East, in Algonquin, at Albany Avenue and Pyrite Street. It opens when Hostile Negotiation ends. It’s the only safehouse with a computer you can use to get online, so it’s where you answer email and run in-game websites between jobs.

Niko takes a phone call inside a bright loft with large factory windows and a plant.

The gray apartment building in Middle Park East with a rounded corner tower and a yellow cab out front.

Niko stands at the kitchen island beside a laptop with the prompt to press E to use the computer.

Northwood penthouse

Rooftop penthouse with a water tower in North Holland

This rooftop place in North Holland, at Xenotime Street and Galveston Avenue, is optional. In The Holland Play, you choose between two men. If you kill Playboy X and spare Dwayne Forge, Dwayne gives you the penthouse as a thank-you. If you spare Playboy X instead, you can’t save there, though the parking spot still works. The building also has a lobby computer that gets you on the internet.

Niko in a dark suit takes a phone call in a brick loft with a pool table and a poster on the wall.

Niko stands on a rooftop terrace with plants and a city skyline behind him while on the phone.

Alderney apartment

The last safehouse sits on Mahesh Avenue in Alderney City, in the state of Alderney. You earn it by finishing both Smackdown, for Derrick McReary, and A Long Way to Fall, for Ray Boccino, in Alderney. Until you’ve done both, it stays closed.