The ‘Full House’ Home Sold for $6 Million, Even Though It’s a ‘Nightmare’ to Live in
Despite the fact that its interior is as confounding as the Overlook Hotel and Jerry Seinfeld’s physics-defying bachelor pad, fans still love the titular abode from Full House.
After all, how many TV houses have enough room for a single father, his three kids, his brother-in-law’s entire family, plus a stand-up comedian who, despite the wacky puppets and nonstop Popeye impressions, could be a total buzzkill at times.
While the original show and its depressing Netflix sequel were obviously filmed on soundstages, the exterior establishing shots utilized a real Victorian house, which is located at 1709 Broderick Street in San Francisco.
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Once owned by Full House creator Jeff Franklin, until he sold it in 2020, last year the building was again put on the market, this time for a whopping $6.5 million. As we pointed out at the time, this likely would have priced out Danny Tanner, even with his staggering number of roommates.
Well, now the house has sold for under the original asking price: just $6 million even. What a bargain!
That being said, living in the Full House house comes with a big string attached. Fans of the ‘90s sitcom routinely flock to the location, and have been a regular annoyance for residents of the street. As Realtor.com reported in 2017, the house saw “1,000 visitors or more on weekend days” leaving the sidewalks “littered with trash” and rendering parking “next to impossible.” Franklin, the owner at the time, fielded neighbors’ complaints that the street had become a mob scene. (Presumably these tourists ignored homeowners’ pleas to “cut it out.”)
Things were no better in 2018, with one resident claiming that the attention had become “a nightmare for those who live here.” Due to crowding and blocked driveways, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Board of Directors eventually voted to ban “tour buses and other commercial vehicles that seat more than nine people” from the area. But as The San Francisco Chronicle pointed out, that solution runs the risk of encouraging more people to drive to the house, which would be “be far worse for neighborhood traffic and congestion.”
And in addition to the in-person attention, the house’s pop-culture fame led to a 2022 incident in which it was fraudulently listed for sale on Zillow for $37 million.
That being said, the number of people who visit the house has no doubt declined since the reboot was canceled by Netflix. And for all we know, the deep-pocketed mystery buyer is a Full House superfan who will relish the attention from like-minded tourists.
And if they don’t, they can always just poke their head out and yell at everybody like the guy who currently lives in Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment.
