The Home Alone House Is Up for Sale

[The Deadman]

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-hom...is-up-for-sale

Fans of the Christmas classic Home Alone can now consider buying the actual house where Macaulay Culkin's shenanigans took place.

As reported by Deadline, the Home Alone house has been listed for sale for a hefty $5.25 million. Located in Winnetka, Illinois in the U.S., the front of the house still looks exactly as it did in the 1990 film, but renovations in 2018 will leave the inside a tad unfamiliar.

While the five bedrooms and six bathrooms seem plenty capable of hosting the myriad McCallisters, the film was missing scenes where Kevin watches Angels With Filthy Souls in a private cinema or shoots triples from an NBA-standard basketball court, which both now live inside the house. It's otherwise absent of all traps, and the listing makes no mention of any water damage caused by the Wet Bandits.

This listing is for a normal house and thus comes in a separate category, but the fantasy of visiting real life versions of homes from films and TV shows has recently grown in popularity thanks to property renting website Airbnb.

The company revealed its new line of Icons earlier in May 2024, a collection of special houses and apartments designed to recreate fantastical spaces, which included a real life X-Men '97 mansion, the house from Up (which actually "floats" with thousands of balloons above it), and more. Past Icons have included Barbie's Malibu Dream House and even Shrek's Swamp.

[ResidentEvil7]

The Home Alone mansion is only a 20-minute drive away from me.

Personally I think $5M for that house is a bit too much. The town where I used to live (Geneva, IL) has estates twice the size of the Home Alone house and fancier going for $3.1M.

[mrluck_07]

Originally Posted by ResidentEvil7

Home Alone mansion is only a 20-minute drive away from me.

Personally I think $5M for that house is a bit too much. The town where I used to live (Geneva, IL) has estates twice the size of the Home Alone house and fancier going for $3.1M.

Oh wow! But I'm guessing the price is a bump because of it being a landmark.

[Wildcat]

Well I guess we know what they’d have to pay if they make a sequel with him and that house again. Unless someone moves in.

HGTV bought the Brady Bunch house and made it tv accurate...99%. Obviously some stuff would be a little different. Someone has bought it for less than it cost them and the owner says they’ll keep it as-is for charity and events. Which is great because they did an amazing job. I watched the tv special. I’d like to visit it. I wonder if you can spend the night.

https://www.housebeautiful.com/desig...tv-renovation/

[kerorokatak]

I hate what they did with the interior. My old house looked similar and I really got tired of all the white, I was worried no one would want to buy it. Thankfully I managed to easily sell it to The Property Buying Company.

[Andrew NDB]

I don't even know this: did the movie shoot INSIDE the house at all? Or was that all sets?

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I don't even know this: did the movie shoot INSIDE the house at all? Or was that all sets?

Wikipedia says parts of the film were shot in the house while others were done on sets that were duplicated from the actual interiors (I didn‘t check the sources but it sounds likely enough).
I always loved the look of that house in the film. Super nostalgic to me and makes me think of all kinds of 90s films and Sitcoms. As a kid, it was window into a different country because American houses looked so different from European ones.