7xm ‘Breaking Bad’ House Listed for $3.995 Million

The house that doubled as Walter White’s on the TV show “Breaking Bad” has hit the market — at the lofty price of nearly $4 million.

The modest four-bedroom, two-bathroom ranch-style home at 3828 Piermont Drive Northeast, in the Northeast Heights neighborhood of Albuquerque, is listed for $3.995 million. At 1,910 square feet, the home costs just over $2,000 per square foot, and it has a pool in the backyard. The median sale price in Albuquerque is $350,000, and the median price per square foot is $208, according to Redfin.

Joanne Padilla grew up in the house and moved back four and a half years ago. In an interview with The New York Times, she said that her parents bought the house in 1973, and that after they recently died, she and her brothers decided it was time to let it go.

“It’s no longer the family vibe that we’ve always had growing up in the house,” said Ms. Padilla, 63, who is retired. “It’s an icon, so whoever wants it can just say they own an iconic home now, but to us, it has no meaning anymore.”

ImageMany “Breaking Bad” fans have come to visit the house over the years, and a fence and traffic cones were installed outside “as a precaution,” Ms. Padilla said.Credit...Adria Malcolm for The New York Times

Among her fondest memories of the house is ditching school as a teenager to go swimming in the backyard pool, which her parents made an oasis,og777 casino she said.

The home’s high price reflects its pop cultural significance, and its potential value if converted into an Airbnb or a museum, said David Christensen of eXp Realty Luxury, who with Sonya Avila is representing the seller. The listing went live last week, and Mr. Christensen said they had already received calls about it from across the United States and Europe.

“We clearly believe that the likelihood of a lovely family of four buying the home was really not statistically possible,” he said. “It was going to be somebody who saw the bigger value in terms of how to give something that the fans would like and might bring some additional value to the neighborhood.”

free spins casinoImageBryan Cranston as Walter White in “Breaking Bad.”Credit...Ben Luener/AMC

In “Breaking Bad,” Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a high school chemistry teacher who becomes a drug kingpin to provide for his family after he is diagnosed with cancer. The front and the backyard of the Padillas’ home were used to portray the Whites’ home across all five seasons of the show; the interiors were not used.

Location scouts knocked on the Padillas’ door in 2006, asking to use the home for a television pilot, according to a news release. The family could not have anticipated the cultural phenomenon that “Breaking Bad” would become. It was widely acclaimed, regularly appearing on best-of lists (including in The Times), and generated a fierce fandom: At the height of the show’s popularity, hundreds drove by the house to visit — some, much to the owners’ dismay, to throw pizzas on the roof as Walter did in Season 3.

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A fence was put up around the home in 20177xm, and traffic cones were added recently “as a precaution,” Ms. Padilla said through her agent.