Looking to simplify his life following the snowplow accident that almost killed him last year, actor Jeremy Renner is putting his Los Angeles home on the market for $12.9 million.

The Oscar-nominated actor bought the circa-1960 house for about $4 million in 2012, property records show.

Located in a quiet enclave near Laurel Canyon, the roughly 9,000-square-foot, six-bedroom home has a screening room, a music studio and an open-plan living room with a bar area. Sliding doors open to the pool, which has waterfall features.

 

Renner, 53, plays Hawkeye in Marvel’s “Avengers” movies, and is also known for films such as “The Hurt Locker.” While he is also a real-estate investor and flipper, he said, the property near Laurel Canyon was his personal residence.

When he bought the house, Renner said, he had just finished a five-year run of movies and wanted to come home to a place of his own. The low-slung bungalow was architecturally interesting, he said. He also fell in love with the neighborhood; there are only a few houses, and some of the owners had lived there since their own childhoods, he said.

“You typically don’t get a lot of neighborly love in Los Angeles,” he said. “This was a wonderful little micro-community.”

When he bought it, the home was much smaller and in good condition, but needed upgrading. The house had “all these little Star Trek-looking buttons,” he said, and equipment for playing cassettes and records—“all the stuff that was kind of cool and high-tech in the 60s.”

Renner invested roughly $5.5 million to renovate and expand the home, more than doubling the size of the house while being careful to maintain its original Midcentury lines. Also a musician and songwriter, he added the music studio to the home. The sloped lot was graded to give the property more usable outdoor space. He purchased solar panels that generate about 90% of the energy required to run the house.

“I did all that stuff because I was going to stay there,” he said. “It was kind of a forever home.”

Renner hails from Northern California, where he said he grew up poor. As an up-and-coming actor, he made “good money” rehabbing neglected Los Angeles homes and flipping them, he said. Renner said he sometimes lived at the construction sites, at times with no electricity or running water. “We would have a porta-potty there,” he said.

He has flipped more than 20 homes, he said, and gravitates toward properties with interesting design or rich history. He shies away from contemporary architecture, which he finds “cold and kind of lifeless,” he said; he likes properties that “reek of California.”

Renner, who is divorced, said his primary home has long been in Nevada on Lake Tahoe, but the L.A. property has allowed him to spend time with his daughter, who goes to school there.

In January 2023 he was run over by a snowplow, breaking more than 30 bones and requiring numerous surgeries. He spent much of the accident’s aftermath in the single-story L.A. house, he said, because it didn’t require climbing stairs. He has used the studio to record songs inspired by the accident.

He is selling because he is looking to downsize and focus on his recovery, he said.

“I need to kind of move on to other things,” he said.

Renner recently wrapped filming of the latest season of his TV series, “Mayor of Kingstown.” He said he now plans to work on a book about his near-death experience and recovery.

Rayni and Branden Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates have the listing.