Elon Musk House, Cars and Lifestyle
Elon Musk’s main house, by his own account, is a roughly $50,000 prefab home in Starbase, Texas, that he rents from SpaceX 1. He sold seven California homes for about $128 million in 2020-2021 after pledging to “own no house” 2, but companies linked to him own several larger homes near Austin 34.
Where does Elon Musk live?
Elon Musk lives mainly in Texas, where SpaceX, Tesla and X are now based. In 2021 he wrote on X: “My primary home is literally a ~$50k house in Boca Chica/Starbase that I rent from SpaceX.” 1 The house sits near SpaceX’s Starbase rocket site on the Gulf coast. Reports describe it as a small prefabricated unit, and Walter Isaacson’s 2023 biography called it a “spartan two-bedroom” 1.
He also spends time in the Austin area, near Tesla’s headquarters and Gigafactory. Musk has said he often sleeps at his factories during production pushes 1.
Elon Musk’s houses near Austin
In October 2024 The New York Times reported that Musk had helped buy a 14,400-square-foot mansion in the Austin area, styled like a Tuscan villa, and a six-bedroom house behind it, for about $35 million in total. The report said they were intended for some of his children and their mothers 3. Musk responded on X that there was no “grand family compound” 5.
The Wall Street Journal reported that companies associated with Musk own at least three homes in West Lake Hills, near Austin, each of 6,000 to 9,000 square feet 1. In February 2026 The New York Times identified at least 37 companies holding property that appears to be for his personal use, including condominiums, planes and at least 1,000 acres of land 6.
The California homes Elon Musk sold
On 1 May 2020 Musk posted that he was “selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house.” Between June 2020 and November 2021 he sold all seven of his California homes, six in Bel Air and one estate in Hillsborough, for about $128 million. He had bought them between 2012 and 2019 for about $102 million 2.
| Sale | Buyer | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Four Bel Air homes (Dec 2020) | Developer Ardie Tavangarian | $62 million 2 |
| Former home of actor Gene Wilder | Jordan Walker-Pearlman, Wilder’s nephew | Not disclosed 2 |
| A Bel Air mansion | William Ding, founder of NetEase | Not disclosed 2 |
| Hillsborough estate | Kirill Evstratov, founder of Unlimint | Not disclosed 2 |
| All seven homes | - | About $128 million in total 2 |
Elon Musk’s car collection
Elon Musk’s car collection has included some famous names, though he is usually seen in his own Tesla Model S or Cybertruck 7.
| Car | What is known |
|---|---|
| 1978 BMW 320i | His first car, bought for $1,400 in 1994 7 |
| 1967 Jaguar E-Type | Bought with his first Zip2 bonus 7 |
| McLaren F1 | Bought for about $1 million after the Zip2 sale; crashed in 2000 on Sand Hill Road 78 |
| Lotus Esprit “submarine car” | The car from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, bought at auction for a reported price of over $900,000 8 |
| 1920 Ford Model T | Reported to be in his collection 8 |
| Tesla Roadster | His own car, launched into space on the first Falcon Heavy flight in 2018 9 |
Elon Musk’s private jets
Elon Musk flies on private jets owned through companies linked to him. Reports say the fleet has included a Gulfstream G650, reportedly bought for about $75 million, two Gulfstream G550s and a newer Gulfstream G700 8. Exact ownership is not public.
How Elon Musk spends his money
Compared with his fortune, Musk’s personal spending is small. Most of his wealth is in SpaceX and Tesla shares, and his largest purchases have been companies, such as Twitter for about $44 billion 9. His biggest outside spending has been on politics and his foundation; see net worth.
