The home that doubled as Walter White’s on the TV present “Breaking Unhealthy” has hit the market — on the lofty worth of practically $4 million.
The modest four-bedroom, two-bathroom ranch-style house at 3828 Piermont Drive Northeast, within the Northeast Heights neighborhood of Albuquerque, is listed for $3.995 million. At 1,910 sq. toes, the house prices simply over $2,000 per sq. foot, and it has a pool within the yard. The median sale worth in Albuquerque is $350,000, and the median worth per sq. foot is $208, in line with Redfin.
Joanne Padilla grew up in the home and moved again 4 and a half years in the past. In an interview with The New York Instances, she stated that her mother and father purchased the home in 1973, and that after they lately died, she and her brothers determined it was time to let it go.
“It’s not the household vibe that we’ve all the time had rising up in the home,” stated Ms. Padilla, 63, who’s retired. “It’s an icon, so whoever desires it will probably simply say they personal an iconic house now, however to us, it has no that means anymore.”
Amongst her fondest reminiscences of the home is ditching faculty as a youngster to go swimming within the yard pool, which her mother and father made an oasis, she stated.
The house’s excessive worth displays its pop cultural significance, and its potential worth if transformed into an Airbnb or a museum, stated David Christensen of eXp Realty Luxurious, who with Sonya Avila is representing the vendor. The itemizing went stay final week, and Mr. Christensen stated that they had already acquired calls about it from throughout the US and Europe.
“We clearly consider that the probability of a beautiful household of 4 shopping for the house was actually not statistically doable,” he stated. “It was going to be any person who noticed the larger worth when it comes to how you can give one thing that the followers would really like and would possibly carry some further worth to the neighborhood.”
In “Breaking Unhealthy,” Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a highschool chemistry trainer who turns into a drug kingpin to offer for his household after he’s identified with most cancers. The entrance and the yard of the Padillas’ house have been used to painting the Whites’ house throughout all 5 seasons of the present; the interiors weren’t used.
Location scouts knocked on the Padillas’ door in 2006, asking to make use of the house for a tv pilot, in line with a information launch. The household couldn’t have anticipated the cultural phenomenon that “Breaking Unhealthy” would turn into. It was broadly acclaimed, frequently showing on best-of lists (together with in The Instances), and generated a fierce fandom: On the peak of the present’s reputation, a whole lot drove by the home to go to — some, a lot to the house owners’ dismay, to throw pizzas on the roof as Walter did in Season 3.
A fence was put up across the house in 2017, and visitors cones have been added lately “as a precaution,” Ms. Padilla stated by means of her agent.
