He hails from Austin, Texas, but where does Glen Powell live now? After 15 years of working his way up in Hollywood to become a leading man, the Chad Powers star sold his home in the Hills and returned to his hometown last year. One plus side of “getting to this point in Hollywood,” Powell said in a May 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, “is that I can now leave Hollywood. It’s like I’ve earned the ability to go back to my family.”
The year after landing a small part in Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters in 2007, Powell dropped out of the University of Texas in the hopes of making it big in the movie biz. His first Los Angeles home was a Beverly Hills poolhouse owned by a friend’s mom, according to an interview with Vanity Fair. Unfortunately, the then 19-year-old got kicked out after he got caught throwing a raging party on the premises. “I came from that college-party mentality where there are no boundaries,” he told the outlet in 2024. “Nobody gives a f—k about you in Hollywood if you can’t offer them something. I made a mistake and offered the house.” From there, the budding actor reluctantly moved to Van Nuys, near the airport. “It was like the worst hangover ever,” he said of the experience. “But every major turning point in my time out here has always come from a hit in the face.”
Powell has certainly come a long way since then. Nowadays, he splits his time between film sets around the world, Texas, and New York City. The details of his properties are largely unknown, but below, we’re unpacking what we do know about the Top Gun: Maverick star’s real estate portfolio.
Hollywood Hills homes
In a 2014 interview with Nylon, the actor revealed that he had recently moved from “the heart of the city” to a dwelling “deep in the Hollywood Hills.” At the time, Powell was promoting The Expendables 3, one of his largest roles to date—so it makes sense that he would’ve upgraded his digs. Around that same time, he was photographed inside the abode for the now folded Zooey magazine. The contemporary home featured floor-to-ceiling glass doors that opened to a wraparound balcony where Powell liked to write screenplays, with views of the Griffith Park Observatory (he would go on to cowrite 2023’s Hit Man with director Richard Linklater). The living room featured hardwood floors, an open-hearth fireplace cut into an angled stone-tiled wall in one corner, a wood-paneled ceiling, and furnishings befitting of a bachelor pad, including a leather sofa, a telescope, and a brown leather armchair with riveted steel sides. Other photos showcase the actor’s bedroom, which had sliding door patio access and was decorated with a large-scale metal artwork honoring Powell’s home state of Texas hanging above a low-to-the-ground bedframe lined with textured gray upholstery. The modern eat-in kitchen featured a stainless steel backsplash, open shelving, and a futuristic-looking curved glass range hood.
Powell moved out of the Hollywood Hills in 2024, though according to his interview with The Hollywood Reporter that year, he had been residing in a different home in the Hills ever since getting cast in his breakout role in Top Gun: Maverick.
Tribeca apartment
Powell on the streets of New York with his dog, Brisket.Photo: Raymond Hall / Getty Images