Josh Duhamel seems to be on the verge of selling his luxury home in Los Angeles.
Only days after putting the dwelling on the market for $2.99M on June 25, the home has received an offer from an interested party, according to property records obtained by Realtor.com.
Documents indicate the home is under ‘contingent’ offer, however the exact figure Duhamel agreed to is not known.
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Duhamel for comment but has not yet heard back.
The sale is yet another sign of how Duhamel has been embracing a new life worlds away from glamorous Hollywood.
Duhamel, 53, purchased a rustic lakeside home in Minnesota 16 years ago and has been spending plenty of time at the cozy property he has dubbed his ‘doomsday cabin.’
Josh Duhamel has reportedly received an offer to buy his luxurious home in Los Angeles, only days after putting it on the market
Duhamel, 53, purchased a rustic lakeside home in Minnesota 16 years ago and has been spending plenty of time at the cozy property he has dubbed his ‘doomsday cabin’
It’s the kind of property not for the faint of heart and certainly a surprising choice for an A-lister.
When Duhamel purchased the home, it lacked plumbing – meaning he had to use an outhouse and wash dishes in the lake.
He has now improved the residence but, ‘you still feel like you’re roughing it,’ he told Country Living.
The home resembles nothing of the glamorous property he is now selling off.
The four bedroom, four bathroom ‘Philippe Starck-inspired’ home is located on a street with a cul-de-sac in Encino.
It features all the amenities a celebrity could want – privacy hedges, a pool and jacuzzi, sauna, and even renovations by a famous designer.
The master bedroom was the focus of a remodel done by Jeff Lewis on his Amazon Freevee show Hollywood Houselift, which impressed Duhamel. ‘The whole thing just turned out beautifully,’ the actor said.
It’s only now that Duhamel is ready to permanently part ways with the home. In 2024, he put the property on the rental market for $15,000 a month.
The home was listed at a slight increase from the price Duhamel purchased it for back in 2017. At the time, he paid $2.65M for the home; pictured May
The home originally lacked plumbing but Duhamel has put in a lot of work to update it
Duhamel has a total of three children; he shares son Axl with ex-wife Fergie and two children with wife Audra Mari
The home was listed at a slight increase from the price Duhamel purchased it for back in 2017. At the time, he paid $2.65M for the home.
Duhamel purchased the property the same year he split from his then-wife, Fergie.
The Las Vegas actor was married to the Black Eyed Peas singer from 2009 until their 2017 separation and finalization of their divorce in 2019. They are parents to son Axl, 12.
Since their split, he remarried, tying the knot with Audra Mari in 2022. They now have two children together, son Shepherd, two, and daughter Rocca de Leon, who was born in May.
Now the couple are unplugging from modern civilization in the woods of Minnesota.
‘We’re about 40 minutes from civilization,’ Josh told Country Living. ‘It’s an exhale whenever we get here. And then after that you venture even deeper into the forest,’ he added.
Building the home came out of passion for a simpler life.
‘I’ve spent 15 years cultivating our lakeside property—building on it, popping stumps, putting in wells, planting food plots,’ he shared.
Duhamel purchased the LA property the same year he split from his then-wife, Fergie
‘We were basically homesteading the first 12 years. For the longest time we didn’t have plumbing,’ he remarked.
‘We were using outhouses and washing dishes in the lake.’ Josh has added some amenities in recent years.
‘I feel so connected to it—I didn’t just buy the place, I shaped this place. While we’ve made a lot of improvements, you still feel like you’re roughing it, and I love that,’ he included.
‘It’s a cute little red cabin with a stone chimney that sits right on the water—it’s basically a Terry Redlin painting,’ said Josh.
And his children love it: ‘Here my kids get to be kids—catching frogs, collecting sticks. They come home and they’re filthy, and I think that’s so good for them.
‘These days there’s so much anger in the world, and I think it’s because people are on their phones, getting caught up in whatever they’re being fed through their devices as opposed to being outside connecting with the world. Nature helps ground you to what’s important.’
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