The actor has owned properties in Colorado, California, Florida, and England

Tom Cruise’s houses provide a place where the Hollywood icon can retreat from the world. When he isn’t rappelling into the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, he’s usually busy filming his next action-packed flick (next up: an untitled Alejandro G. Iñárrritu project that Cruise is also producing). Fitting, then, that the places he’s owned over the years have been veritable retreats where the actor can get away from it all: a 320-acre ranch in Telluride, Colorado, or a sprawling estate in West Sussex, England, for instance. The real estate empire he’s amassed over the past few decades is a far cry from Cruise’s more modest beginnings. Before he hit it big with 1983’s Risky Business, the New York native worked as a super in an Upper West Side town house. The building, known as the Good Luck Mansion, also previously housed the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker and her then boyfriend Robert Downey Jr., as well as John Lennon and King Curtis. At the time, Cruise was reportedly paying just $300 a month for a small studio apartment in exchange for taking out the trash and vacuuming the hallways. These days, of course, the multimillionaire has the means for a more lavish lifestyle. Below, we’ve rounded up a few of the places that Cruise has called home over the years.

East Village condo

In 1984, one year after the success of Risky Business, Cruise snapped up a brand new 2,200-square-foot apartment in the American Felt Building, located in the East Village on 13th Street between Third and Fourth avenues. While it’s unclear how much the actor paid for the 10th-floor unit, he owned it for quite some time, finally selling it for $3 million nearly three decades later, in 2013. The pad featured two bedrooms and a third bedroom that was used as a state-of-the-art gym. One unusual aspect of Cruise’s particular unit was that the ceilings measured just nine feet, whereas other units in the 12-story building had higher loft-like ceilings.

Telluride ranch

An aerial view of Cruise’s Colorado home in 1994

 Photo: Paul Harris/Getty Images

At the start of the 1990s, the Mission Impossible actor began to make plans for a compound on a 320-acre plot of land in Telluride, Colorado. (Celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Lauren, and Kelly Ripa currently call the mountain town home.) He completed construction of the main house, a 10,000-square-foot behemoth, in 1994. In a 2006 interview with Cruise and his then wife Katie Holmes at the Telluride abode, Vanity Fair described the mansion as having the feeling “of a sprawling lodge or chalet, with rustic, log-cabin touches—informal, airy, built with honey-colored deadwood from Oregon.” The custom-built main house featured four bedrooms, with high-beamed ceilings, cedar-paneled walls, and stone fireplaces throughout. A separate guest house boasted three additional bedrooms. The grounds also included a golf course, a motocross track, an outdoor firepit, and an in-ground trampoline. Cruise first listed the property for $59 million in 2014, but quietly took it off the market. He relisted it seven years later, in 2021, for $39.4 million, and sold it for the asking price.

Beverly Hills rental

It was only a matter of time before Cruise made his way to the West Coast. The native New Yorker reportedly leased a mansion in Beverly Hills for $55,000 a month starting in 2001. The three-acre estate would go on to be leased by Russell Crowe during the filming of 2009’s State of Play, and it was previously a filming location for several scenes in the movie Blow starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. When Cruise and Holmes got together in 2005, they held onto the 6,685-square-foot, nine-bedroom estate, leasing it through 2008. Amenities on-site included a detached guesthouse, a pool with a spa, and a tennis court.

Hollywood Hills compound

In 2005, Cruise paid $11.7 million for a brand new Tuscan-style residence in the Hollywood Hills. Built in 2004, the two-story, European-style estate sat on more than 2.5 acres of land, with a main house featuring walls of glass for city views and an Italian farmhouse-inspired kitchen with plenty of old-world charm. The home contained a total of seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, plus a vaulted-ceiling living room with a fireplace. A separate guesthouse on the property boasted its own kitchen and four bedrooms, while a standalone stone-clad building nearby housed a wine cellar and tasting room. The entire estate was remodeled in 2006. When Cruise sold it to Eva Longoria for a slight loss at $11.4 million a decade later, she also opted to give the property a bit of a redesign.

West Sussex estate

One year after the Hollywood Hills purchase, in 2006, Cruise cast his gaze across the pond, picking up a $4.2 million English estate in the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, just down the road from the British headquarters for the Church of Scientology (Cruise has been a practicing member since the 1980s). The actor’s property included an 11,331-square-foot main house set on over 14 acres. Though the eight-bedroom, five-bathroom home looked rather traditional from the outside with a brick exterior, inside the mansion was a blend of historic and modern aesthetics, with coffered ceilings and timber accents, as well as integrated sound systems and zoned lighting. Entertaining spaces included a movie theater, a dance studio, and a game room. Cruise maintained the residence for nearly a decade before listing it in October 2015. He sold it to singer Peter Andre for just under $6 million the following year.

Beverly Hills mansion

In 2007, Cruise and Holmes put down $30.5 million for a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom estate in Beverly Hills. The home, which was originally built in 1937, was situated on 1.21 acres, and the property included a handful of guesthouses, a swimming pool, a playground, and a tennis court. The unique 10,000-square-foot structure included multiple different wings and had a gray stone exterior. The couple split in 2012 after six years of marriage, and Cruise held onto the property for a few more years after that before selling it for $40 million in 2016. At the time, it was unclear what Cruise’s original asking price had been, though it was reportedly between $40 and $50 million.

Florida penthouse town house

Shortly after selling his Beverly Hills mansion, Cruise snapped up a $9.5 million penthouse town house in Clearwater, Florida, close to the Scientology headquarters. The two-story unit, located downtown, sits on top of a luxury building called The Skyview; the impressive structure was built by one of the world’s richest Scientologists, Mexican property developer Moises Agami. Amenities that Cruise now enjoys include a solarium, a roof deck, a 39-foot infinity pool, a hot tub, and bar. There are also upscale features like a flight simulator and a private car elevator. Cruise also reportedly paid an additional $1.47 million for three other condos within the high-rise, likely for staff or relatives.