HGTV Loses Money Selling ‘The Brady Bunch’ Home Far Below Asking Price

It’s a very Brady realized loss. Americans became intimately familiar with the inside of The Brady Bunch home, residing with the family at 4222 Clinton Way. HGTV recently sold the property used in exterior shots but the final sale ended up far below the asking price.

11222 Dilling Street in North Hollywood is the address of the house that acted as a character itself. Although the series formally ended in 1974, fans got to see it star in its own special programs, HGTV’s A Very Brady Renovation and A Very Brady Renovation: Holiday Edition. Those renovations, however, did not rope in the profits the network expected.

HGTV loses big selling the home from ‘The Brady Bunch’

HGTV had originally bought the Brady Bunch home for $3.5 million. The house underwent alterations and upgrades in 2019. Earlier this year, the network listed it for $5.5 million. However, according to The Wall Street Journal, when the house was finally purchased recently, it sold for $3.2 million, less than listed and less than what the network bought it for.

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Renovations cost $1.9 million and added 2,000 square feet to the house’s footprint. This project also added a new, full second story.

The network intended to direct profits from the house’s sale to Turn Up! Fight Hunger, a program that partners with No Kid Hungry to aid children living with food insecurity.

The home now belongs to very Brady superfan, 53-year-old Tina Trahan who called it “the worst investment ever,” but has plans to use the property for charity and fundraising endeavors.

A very Brady home history

The Brady home was originally built in 1959 and quickly became as famous as the sitcom family since the premiere of The Brady Bunch in 1969. Though, its only moments in the spotlight came solely from exterior shots; anything that took place inside the rooms and even the garden was filmed on stage five at Paramount Studios in Hollywood.

Nevertheless, it’s still a very famous exterior. In fact, says the house’s former real estate broker Ernie Carswell, it is the second-most photographed house in the United States – second only to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House itself.

But it seems this time, it wasn’t the most profitable, despite the Very Brady Renovation crew recreating even the tiniest of details from the television show, from the staircase to the dog house out back.