Betty White lived her last few years in her five-bedroom, six-bathroom Brentwood home in West Los Angeles, but would have preferred to stay

in her Carmel, California home she built with her late husband, Allen Ludden, back in 1978. White's agent and longtime friend Jeff Witjas told

the Associated Press she had been staying at the LA home during the pandemic out of caution, as it could afford her at-home care.

But sources say she would have been more comfortable at the Carmel, California home.

She and Ludden bought the waterfront property for just $170,000 back in 1978, but it is now worth an estimated $2 million.