California’s new governor and his family plan to move to a $3.7 million, six-bedroom house in Fair Oaks they bought in December, according to property records obtained by the Sacramento Bee.

For now, Gavin and Jennifer Siebel Newsom and their four young children are living in the historic governor’s mansion in downtown Sacramento. The governor’s office confirmed that they plan to move to Fair Oaks, an unincorporated community in Sacramento County, once their new house is renovated.

Deed records show the Fair Oaks property was purchased in December by a limited-liability company registered in the name of Gavin Newsom’s cousin Jeremy Scherer. The governor’s office confirmed that the Newsoms purchased the property.

The 12,000-square-foot home was previously owned by philanthropist and businessman Vern Jones and his wife, Gloria. Vern Jones died in August, and the property went on the market soon afterward.

A real estate agent’s listing described the Fair Oaks mansion as a “sophisticated Santa Barbara Montecito-styled home within over 8 acres of park-like setting.” The house, built in 1985, has a wine cellar, a pool, a guest house and a tennis court, along with six bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and three half-bathrooms.

It is a 15-mile drive from the state Capitol.

Newsom spokesman Nathan Click described the new home as “more kid-friendly” for the Newsom children, who are all under the age of 10.

“They will move their four kids, two dogs and bunny rabbit in a few months and open up the magnificently renovated historic Governor’s Mansion for public events and state business,” Click said in a statement. “They love being a permanent part of the Sacramento community and are excited about living, working and raising a family here.”

The family moved into the residence downtown the day Newsom was sworn in as governor. Since 2011, the Newsoms had lived in a midcentury-modern home on 1.4 acres in Kentfield, Marin County. That house cost $2.2 million.

His predecessor, Jerry Brown, lived in the historic mansion with his wife and dogs starting in 2015 after a multimillion-dollar renovation. It marked a change from his first two terms in the ’70s and ’80s, when Brown was single and lived in a state-owned apartment near the Capitol, according to Sacramento Bee archives.

Before Brown, Ronald Reagan was the last California governor to live in the downtown mansion — until 1967, when his wife Nancy declared the home a “firetrap” and they moved to east Sacramento. While Reagan was governor, supporters financed a sprawling mansion in Carmichael, but it wasn’t finished until after he left office and Brown refused to move in, opting for the apartment.

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While George Deukmejian was governor in the 80s, the Governor’s Residence Foundation bought a ranch-style home about 10 miles from the Capitol. Deukmejian lived there with his wife and high-school-age daughter. Former Govs. Gray Davis and Pete Wilson and their families also lived in the house while in office.

Tony Bizjak contributed to this report.