The High Cost of Living in a Sitcom House

Superfans of the late-1980s family comedy Full House (or its weirdly popular Netflix reanimation, Fuller House) can now explore the real-world limits of their sitcom love by renting out the three-bedroom Victorian in San Francisco that was used in exterior shots on the show: It’s available for almost $14,000 per month, according to an online listing. (And it comes with a gardener.)

The home’s stratospheric rent, and the growing improbability that its TV residents could afford to live in it, have now made it something of a poster child for the Bay Area’s white-hot housing boom. (It was listed for sale this spring at $4.15 million and later sold for $4 million.) But the Tanner family home isn’t the only classic sitcom domicile to experience some radical value inflation. Take a gander at Richie Cunningham’s family’s stately Colonial: In Happy Days, this was supposed to be the home of a circa-1955 Milwaukee hardware store owner. When it last sold, in 1995, the six-bedroom home (which is actually in L.A.’s Mid-Wilshire neighborhood) went for a still-attainable $422,000. Zillow’s current value estimate is a little north of $3 million.