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, based on 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 Occasions, she mentioned that her dad and mom 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 now not the household vibe that we’ve all the time had rising up in the home,” mentioned Ms. Padilla, 63, who’s retired. “It’s an icon, so whoever desires it could 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 college as a young person to go swimming within the yard pool, which her dad and mom made an oasis, she mentioned.
The house’s excessive worth displays its pop cultural significance, and its potential worth if transformed into an Airbnb or a museum, mentioned David Christensen of eXp Realty Luxurious, who with Sonya Avila is representing the vendor. The itemizing went reside final week, and Mr. Christensen mentioned that they had already obtained calls about it from throughout the US and Europe.
“We clearly consider that the probability of a stunning household of 4 shopping for the house was actually not statistically doable,” he mentioned. “It was going to be any individual who noticed the larger worth by way of easy methods to give one thing that the followers would really like and may carry some further worth to the neighborhood.”
In “Breaking Unhealthy,” Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a highschool chemistry instructor who turns into a drug kingpin to supply for his household after he’s recognized with most cancers. The entrance and the yard of the Padillas’ house had 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, based on a information launch. The household couldn’t have anticipated the cultural phenomenon that “Breaking Unhealthy” would grow to be. It was extensively acclaimed, repeatedly showing on best-of lists (together with in The Occasions), and generated a fierce fandom: On the peak of the present’s recognition, lots of 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 site visitors cones had been added lately “as a precaution,” Ms. Padilla mentioned by means of her agent.
