The iconic home from Home Alone has officially sold over its asking price of $5.5 million after being on the market for less than a year.
People reports that the five-bedroom, six-bathroom home, located in Winnetka, Ill., initially hit the market with a $5.25 million asking price last May and it went under contract soon after it was listed.
In December, listing agents Dawn McKenna and Katie Moor of Coldwell Banker Realty confirmed that the sale was pending. "We’re thrilled with the way this home captured everyone’s attention and hearts due to its well-deserved place in cinematic history and the timeless holiday memories it evokes," said the agents in a statement.
The house previously belonged to Tim and Trisha Johnson who bought the home in 2012 for $1.585 million. The couple revamped and expanded the home in 2018, but kept the charm of the house from the movie intact. This revamp added a family room with high ceilings, French doors, a chef’s kitchen, a screened-in porch, and another family room. They preserved the brick exterior that everyone knows and loves from the classic holiday film about burglars and bad parenting.
One former resident of the home (prior to the Johnsons) was Laura Abendshien, who actually lived in the home while the movie was filming. She spoke to the host of the U.K. morning show This Morning about what her experience was like living there.
"We stayed in the house pretty much the entire period, which was about four or five months," she said. "In order to avoid appearing onscreen, we would have to crawl around the window line from room to room."
Abendshien also explained how Macauley Culkin would hang out at the house even when there wasn’t any filming going on.
“They would spend time in the house when they weren't filming their scenes,” she said. “Macaulay Culkin used my room to study with his tutor, and his brother [Keiran], wasn't filming as much, so he would just hang out in my room.”
"It was very surreal when the movie came out and all of a sudden it's holiday season in 1990 and it was an endless row of cars and people wanted to see the house and take photographs and that was very new to us, but we grew to love it and we shared the magic of the movie,” she continued.