A “Brady Bunch” fanatic recently bought the iconic house that served as the setting for the hit show for $3.2 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From 1969 to 1974, the famous house in Studio City, California, was used for the exterior shots of “The Brady Bunch” television series. Despite its famous history, however, the house sold for well below the $5.5 million asking price, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Tina Trahan, the 53-year-old woman who bought the house, calls herself a fan of both the television series and the 1995 film, “The Brady Bunch Movie,” the newspaper reported.
Trahan’s real estate agent at Douglas Elliman, Marcy Roth, told The Hollywood Reporter that the home “was a nostalgic purchase she just had to have.” (RELATED: Anti-Vaxers Are Using A Classic Brady Bunch Episode In Their Pushback Against Vaccines)
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Although at first Roth thought Trahan was joking, it soon became clear that Trahan had to have the house. “She was like, ‘No, I’m not kidding, I’m obsessed,'” Roth said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
In 2018, HGTV, the home improvement channel, bought the house for $3.5 million and hired the six actors who played the Brady children to add 2,000 square feet of renovations to the house, People reported.
The home improvements were recorded for the series “A Very Brady Renovation,” hosted by the Property Brothers, Drew and Jonathan Scott, TMZ reported. The show was a huge hit, drawing 28 million viewers in its first four weeks, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“We felt the property was worth about $3 million-$3.5 million and that’s exactly where it landed; there are no intellectual property rights that are included in the sale,” Danny Brown, the listing agent on the property, told TVLIne. “HGTV spent about $5.5 million purchasing and gutting the house which is why we listed it at $5.5 million, even though we knew it was an aspirational list price.”
Brown added, “This is not a home anyone would ever live in, and savvy investors understand that Airbnb rental laws are nuanced and restrictive.”
Trahan agrees that the house is not suitable for families to live in. She even called it the “worst investment ever,” according to People.
“Nobody is going to live in it,” Trahan told The Wall Street Journal. “Anything you might do to make the house livable would take away from what I consider artwork.”