Here's How Much It Would Cost to Buy Your Favorite Holiday Movie House
From Home Alone to The Holiday, your favorite Christmas movie characters are living pretty large
There are few things that scream “holiday” more than home. It’s where we gather to eat our Christmas Eve roasts, light our menorahs, and unwrap our presents. And when it comes to holiday movies, the homes in which they are set often become something of their own character.
Most of the interiors you see in films are built on a soundstage. So, too, are some exteriors. The Griswold family home in the 1989 classic Christmas Vacation, for instance, was built on a Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, California (which is why you’ll notice the same home in American Beauty and Hocus Pocus).
But some of the houses featured in your favorite holiday films are real homes, in real neighborhoods.
The McAllister family abode in Home Alone? That’s real, and it’s located in the Chicago suburbs.
The stunning Mediterranean mansion owned by Cameron Diaz’s Amanda in The Holiday? That’s real, too, and it’s located in San Marino, CA.
Even Nakatomi Plaza — site of the 1988 action film Die Hard, which many insist is a Christmas movie — exists, though it’s not actually owned by a Japanese conglomerate, nor called Nakatomi Plaza in real life.
Below, I delved deep into some of the real-life iconic homes featured in holiday films, rounding up recent sales data and Zillow estimates to determine exactly how much it would cost to live like the characters we all love this time of year.
