The home that doubles as Walter White’s on the TV present “Breaking Dangerous” has hit the market — for the excessive worth of practically $4 million.
The modest four-bedroom, two-bathroom ranch-style residence at 3828 Piermont Drive Northeast, in Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights neighborhood, is listed for $3.995 million. At 1,910 sq. ft, the house prices simply over $2,000 per sq. foot and has a yard pool. The median gross sales worth in Albuquerque is $350,000 and the median worth per sq. foot is $208, in line with Redfin.
Joan 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 her mother and father purchased the home in 1973. and that having just lately handed away, she and her brothers determined it was time to let her go.
“It is not the household vibe we at all times had rising up in the home,” stated Ms. Padilla, 63, who’s retired. “It is an icon, so anybody who needs it could possibly simply say they personal an iconic residence now, however for us that does not matter anymore.”
Amongst her fondest reminiscences of the home is skipping faculty as a teen to swim within the yard pool, which her mother and father changed into an oasis, she stated.
The house’s excessive worth displays its popular culture significance and potential worth if transformed into an Airbnb or museum, stated David Christensen of eXp Realty Luxurious, who together with Sonia Avila represented the vendor. The checklist was revealed 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 stunning household of 4 shopping for the house is basically not statistically doable,” he stated. “It was going to be somebody who noticed the better worth when it comes to the right way to give one thing that followers would love and will convey further worth to the neighborhood.”
In “Breaking Dangerous,” Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a highschool chemistry instructor who turns into a drug lord to help his household after being recognized with most cancers. The back and front yards of the Padillas’ residence have been used to depict the White residence for all 5 seasons of the present; the inside is unused.
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 foreseen the cultural phenomenon that “Breaking Dangerous” would turn into. It was broadly acclaimed, usually showing on best-of lists (together with in The Times) and generated a rabid fandom: On the peak of the present’s recognition, lots of handed by the home to go to—some, to the dismay of the homeowners, to they throw pizzas on the roof as Walter did in Season 3.
In 2017 a fence was put up across the residence, and site visitors cones have been just lately added “as a precaution,” Ms. Padilla stated via her agent.
