--- title: "Elon Musk Just Sold His Final Home to Live in a Small Prefab Box" description: "Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially sold off his last remaining home for a cool $30 million. That means his only official abode is a small $50,000 prefab rental." date: "2021-12-08" modified: "2021-12-08" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-home-prefab-box" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "SpaceX" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk Just Sold His Final Home to Live in a Small Prefab Box ![Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially sold off his last remaining home for a cool $30 million. That means his only official abode is a small $50,000 prefab rental.]() *\Image: Getty Images/Futurism\* ## No Homes Tesla CEO Elon Musk has [officially sold off]() his last remaining home, for a cool $30 million. That means his only official abode is a [small, $50,000 prefab]() he's renting at his space company's headquarters near Boca Chica, Texas. Back in June, Musk [tweeted]() that he'd "decided to sell my last remaining house. Just needs to go to a large family who will live there." "It’s a special place," he added. Initially, he put the house, a [massive California mansion]() that used to belong to Gene Wilder, on sale for $37.5 million — which turned out a little steep, even for the one percent. He tried again with a different agent in October, [*Insider* reports](), where it [finally sold](). ## Moving to Mars Musk is, ostensibly, fully committed to building a city on Mars. And that means he needs cash — and lots of it. Earlier this year, Musk [said]() that he was "selling almost all physical possessions," in [an effort]() to devote "myself to Mars and Earth." His plans couldn't be more ambitious. The concept is for a [fleet of 1,000 Starship spacecraft]() to populate a Martian metropolis with one million people by the year 2050. Musk is looking to invest heavily in the venture himself. And even if real estate is only a tiny piece of that pie, it's something. "I want to be able to contribute as much as possible to the city on Mars," he [told Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Axel Springer](), last year. "That means just a lot of capital." **READ MORE:** [Elon Musk sold a San Francisco mansion, which was his last remaining home, for $30 million]() \[*Insider*\] **More on Elon:** *[Elon Musk Says That Immortality Tech Would Be Very Dangerous]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()