Tony Soprano's House Is Up For Sale And It Can Be All Yours For The Low, Low Price Of $3.5 Million

NY Times- The house that Tony Soprano called home is listing for sale 20 years after its television debut. The roughly 5,600-square-foot home in North Caldwell, N.J., where America’s favorite fictional mobster scooped up his morning newspaper and swam with ducks, is being listed for sale by the owners, Patti and Victor Recchia, at a “starting price” of $3.4 million. Set on a 1.5-acre lot, it includes the main house with four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and a powder room; two two-car garages; and a detached one-bedroom guesthouse. The property taxes are $34,005 a year.

The price is ambitious for a neighborhood where comparable homes have sold for between $1.5 million and $2 million, according to Zillow. But Mr. Recchia, 65, the owner of Fourth Generation Construction, which built the house, as well as more than 20 in the development where it’s located, said the value exceeds the brick and mortar. “Those things can be quantified,” said Mr. Recchia, “but I don’t think you can quantify the intrinsic value of this home.”

Well I don’t know about you guys, but anytime you can purchase a house listed for twice the price of comparable homes in the area while also being on the hook for more than $30,000 in taxes, you absolutely have do it. That is especially the case if the house is also a magnet for weirds who take pictures in front of your driveway while wearing robes.

Then again, if you don’t mind pimping your house out, you could probably make a pretty penny off a house that was probably much more expensive before the real estate bubble burst by charging admission to diehards that wanted to eat Sunday dinner at the house where Tony used to break bread and soak it up with sauce gravy, watch some old war movies in Tony’s living room, give those robed weirdos a thrill by being one of 15 people that still gets the newspaper delivered to their house, or swim in Tony’s pool with ducks that will live on the premises to give it that authentic Sopranos charm. I can only imagine the amount of money places like Pizzaland, Satriales, the Bada Bing made just by being a part of one of the greatest shows and openings in television history.

Owning the house that Tony built (through various very illegal activities) is pretty much a license to print money. I would propose this scheme to Large since he is house hunting, already lives in Jersey, and is rich enough to afford this house. But I’m pretty sure he is one of those Irish people that hates Italians, so he’s probably out of the realm of possibilities.

I would also love it if Brandon Walker could somehow be given this house as he relocates his family from Mississippi to the Tri-State Area in a modern day, gangster, East coast version of the Beverly Hillbillies on the condition he turns his family into the Sooranos because the thought of him dropping gems like gabagool and a Paulie Walnuts “OHHHH” makes me laugh out loud just thinking about it. But I think putting a $3.5 million house on the content team’s expense account would raise a Ginny Sack sized red flag to the Chernin Group and cause them start micromanaging Barstool’s purchases, which would be a major loss for everyone in the giant bird cage industry.

Ahhh who am I kidding? We all know the person that’s going to buy this house is one of those people that has every famous gangster movie in his Top 10 and has pictures like this littered all over his bedroom and basement.

Fun Fact: Did you know the real name of the Bada Bing is Satin Dolls? And if you didn’t know and are with a New Jersey resident, they will inevitably tell you that fun fact when you pass it on the road every single time? It’s true.