Albuquerque’s ‘Breaking Bad’ house is back on the market — this time for $400,000

An Albuquerque home widely known as “the ‘Breaking Bad’ house” is on the market with a smaller asking price a little more than a year after it was listed for nearly $4 million.

The listing for the famous property, located at 3828 Piermont NE, was removed in early December, according to Zillow. Now, it’s available for $400,000, according to Alicia Feil, a local associate broker who took the property over in early January and relisted it on Tuesday.

“It’s pretty exciting,” Feil said. “I think that there’ll be a lot of interest.”

In the hit AMC series, which ran for five seasons between 2008 and 2013, the home belonged to fictional main character and teacher-turned-drug lord Walter White — making the property a piece of cinematic history and “something that will transcend the test of time,” Feil said.

But for the home’s real-life owners, who lived in the house for more than 50 years, the property was just a normal suburban family home with a pool.

“Gosh, we used to go hog wild, I tell you,” said Eric Padilla, who grew up in the home with his parents and two siblings and now serves as the home’s estate executive.

“You talk about your teenage years and you have a pool — you just had a lot of friends over and had a lot of good times,” Padilla said. “My parents used to love to entertain, and we had a bunch of close-knit friends of theirs and their kids — it was just fun.”

Since “Breaking Bad,” the home’s notoriety has attracted fans from across the world. But some of the attention wasn’t exactly wanted. Some fans threw pizza at the home to reenact a scene from the show, prompting the owners to build a fence around the property.

The owners eventually listed the property for sale in January 2025. Though not exactly fans of the show, Padilla said the decision to sell was more the result of a “normal course of events.” Both his parents died over the last 10 years, and he and his siblings — now grown — are ready to move on with their own lives.

“It’s time,” Padilla said.

Feil, who works for Keller Williams Realty, was among the group of agents the 3828 Piermont NE owners had discussions with before listing last year. At the time, Feil felt the home should be listed at a reasonable price and marketed for residential uses rather than a museum.

“It’s a residential neighborhood; you can’t just plop a large commercial business into a residential neighborhood,” Feil said. “I was pretty confident they wouldn’t get $4 million, but I hoped that they would.”

Feil, who touts more than 20 years of real estate experience in Albuquerque, isn’t new to the world of “Breaking Bad” real estate. She also handled the sale of 322 16th SW, which appeared in the show as the home of fictional character Jesse Pinkman, roughly 10 years ago.

The Walter White listing was ultimately given to the Christensen Group of eXp Realty. But after more than a year on the market and a lack of serious interest, the family decided to switch gears and go with Feil’s more conservative approach.

“We just want to get it sold,” Padilla said.

Feil said she doesn’t fault the family or the Realtors for the lofty experiment.

“I guess you got to try,” she said. “But now it’s time for the next family or owner to move in.”

Now priced at a fair market value, Feil thinks the home will receive significantly more serious interest. The current price tag isn’t too far off from Zillow’s $310,800 value estimate for the property, which comes with four bedrooms, one bathroom and spans 1,920 square feet.

Feil said she can easily see someone purchasing it to turn it into a successful “Breaking Bad” rental property, saying she lives near the Jesse Pinkman property and still sees tour buses drive by it frequently.

“It’s just remarkable the amount of consistent interest in it. I think it would be so neat to really bring (the show) into the house and offer a great New Mexico experience,” Feil said. “I’m so excited about that as an opportunity for somebody; it makes me want to do it.”

Feil can also see the property serving as a family’s private residence as well.

More than anything, Padilla said he hopes the home and the surrounding neighborhood offer someone the same stability his family found there for decades.

“My father was retired military. We’re service brats and we moved all over,” Padilla said. “So it was stability, and we just hope to pass it on to the next family who can benefit from all that.”

Kylie Garcia covers retail and real estate for the Journal. You can reach her at kgarcia@abqjournal.com.