The Amityville Horror film home is up on the market

The native landmark, positioned in Toms River, NJ, is listed for $1.7 million and has a pending supply already. That’s a giant leap from the $350,000 it bought for in 2013.

The homeowners have listed the property twice earlier than, each instances in 2013, however eliminated it from the market (which was most likely a good suggestion, because the asking worth then was $950,000).

Whereas this property may be the house most individuals establish with the horror basic, it’s not the precise home that impressed the e book and movie. That dwelling, the place Ronald DeFeo killed his mother and father and 4 siblings (claiming at his trial that voices in the home satisfied him to take action), is positioned on Lengthy Island. The Amityville Horror story doesn’t concentrate on DeFeo, however relatively the Lutz household, which moved in afterward and claimed it was haunted. (Skeptics declare the story is solely fictional.)

That property was final bought in 2017 for $605,000.

The Amityville film dwelling in New Jersey, inbuilt 1920, is something however haunted. It’s a four-level home with 4 bedrooms, three full baths and a pair of half-baths. It has a customized kitchen, in keeping with the itemizing, that features a heart island and an eat-in space with bar. The totally furnished basement additionally features a moist bar and the house has water views together with an in-ground pool and spa.

It spans 3,866 sq. ft on loads that’s a bit of shy of a half-acre.

Houses featured in movies and tv exhibits have a tendency to attract a premium from patrons, even when the market is a bit tough. Three years in the past, the home that was featured because the setting for The Beverly Hillbillies bought for roughly $150 million, making it the costliest dwelling sale in California historical past on the time.