Ant Anstead has sold his Laguna Beach home, Temple House, in an off-market deal, after listing and un-listing the property earlier this year.
“Temple is sold,” the British car expert, 44, tells PEOPLE while chatting about his new docu-seriesRadford Reborn(streaming April 14 onSpeedvision). Ansteadoriginally listed the beachside cottagein October 2022 for $3.3 million, thenremoved it from the market after having a change of heartin February, he confirmed to PEOPLE at the time.
Now, he’s officially let go of the property amid “a change in my personal life,” he says.
He received an off-market offer from an interested buyer and “it came at the right time, for another property and a change in my personal life that I’m really pleased about,” Anstead says. “So I was like, yeah. I made the call there and then.”
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Anstead has been dating Renee Zellweger, 53, since 2021 whenthey met on the set of his Discovery+ show,Celebrity IOU: Joyride. The couple have kept their relationship mostly private and, speaking with PEOPLE this week, Anstead doesn’t get into specifics about the other “property” he found that encouraged him to sell Temple House. Though he confirms, “I’m going to absolutely keep a base in and around Laguna.”
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He credits “Murphy’s Law” for bringing the perfect buyer to him only after he’d done significant work on the house.
“I really love the guys that have bought it,” he says. “I actually met with them, because I was so emotionally attached to that house and I had a really grand vision for it. I didn’t accept the offer until I met them, but when I met them, I was like, ‘Actually, yeah, you guys are the right people for Temple.'”
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Ansteadpurchased Temple House in June 2021following his split from Hall and called it “the house of my dreams” at the time.
“For me, it served as a sanctuary for that period, and that period’s over,” he says ofhis post-split journey of recovery. “I’m in a really fantastic place. I feel very, very blessed to be where I am now, privately. For that purpose, Temple did its job.”
source: people.com
