- Tina Trahan, a fan of "The Brady Bunch," has bought the Brady house for $3.2 million.
- The original house was built around 1959 and was bought by HGTV for $3.5 million in 2018.
- Trahan says the home is a "liability" because it's losing its cachet as "The Brady Bunch" fans age.
Who doesn't want to live in a classic American sitcom? The house featured in "The Brady Bunch" hit the market in early June for a cool $5.5 million — and it just sold on Monday for $3.2 million.
HGTV, which purchased the home for $3.5 million in 2018, had to settle for a figure that was $2.3 million less than its initial listing and about 9% less than what it originally paid for the home, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Journal reported that a 53-year-old fan named Tina Trahan had purchased the property. The outlet says she's a home enthusiast who's the wife of a former HBO chief executive. "It's almost like a life-size dollhouse," she told the Journal.
Built in 1959, the two-story home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles measures 5,140 square feet and is the embodiment of midcentury modern style. It was rebuilt to replicate the set of the TV show, the listing said.
The buyer, Tina Trahan, told the Journal she was a fan of the show but didn't plan to live in the house — she said she wanted to use it for fundraising and charitable events.
Danny Brown of Compass listed the home, while Marcy Roth of the Eklund Gomes team at Douglas Elliman shared the sale with Fredrik Eklund. Trahan did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider via Roth.
Brown told the Journal the home-improvement television network lost money on the sale but made "a good amount of money on TV shows and events and other ancillary revenue streams," such as on the TV series "A Very Brady Renovation."
Trahan, who told the Journal the house was "the worst investment ever," said she felt the home was overpriced as nobody was going to live in a home with outdated and retro appliances, but saw the home as a work of art.
"I can't even say the word investment — I'm going to say liability," she told the Journal, referring to how potential buyers attracted by the home's cultural cachet were getting older. "I asked my 27-year-old tennis instructor, 'Have you heard of 'The Brady Bunch?' He's like, 'Yeah, Wayne Brady?' I'm like, 'Noooo,'" she said.
"Nobody is going to live in it," she told the Journal. "No one is going in there to make pork chops and applesauce in that kitchen. Anything you might do to make the house livable would take away from what I consider artwork."
While the bulk of the show was actually filmed at Paramount's studio in Hollywood, exterior shots of the house were featured throughout the show and in the opening credits.
"The most common thing the public doesn't realize is that this house was never used to film the show; it was only used in the opening credits," Brown, the listing agent for the property, told Insider.
Here's a look around the iconic property.