CARRIE Bradshaw’s NYC apartment was her beloved oasis in the bustling city where she poured her heart out about love and life as a newspaper columnist in the hit series Sex and the City.
And if you have ever dreamed about living a life similar to Carrie’s, you’d need to cough up a couple of hundreds of thousands of dollars to stay in her pad.
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According to a calculated guess by the Australian real estate website realestate.com.au, Carrie’s iconic brownstone apartment would be worth at least $600,000 today – a low number for what an apartment like hers would really be worth in reality.
Luckily for Carrie, this means she would make a generous profit if she were to sell it after calling the place home for two decades.
In the fourth season of Sex and the City, Carrie, along with the help of bestie Charlotte, purchased the home for somewhere between $150,000 and $200,000, according to the website.
This means she would be making at least $400,000 on the sale.
While Carrie’s apartment address of 245 East 73rd Street doesn’t actually exist in real life, the outside of her building used in the show does.
The brownstones at 64 and 66 Perry Street in the West Village, which were used as the facade of her apartment throughout the series – the former being shot in the first three seasons and the latter being used for the remainder of the series – are very much real and occupied.
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In fact, the residents at 66 Perry Street have a “no trespassing” sign hung across their entranceway to deter fans from taking pictures on their steps.
Furthermore, the real apartments have much more realistic price tags.
While Carrie Bradshaw’s $600,000 apartment may be digestible for some, the actual homes it is based on are far more expensive.
According to Zillow, the entire home at 64 Perry Street last sold in 2013 for $13.25 million.
The rent estimate reaches above $20,000 per month.
Carrie would be expected to pay at least $3,000 in monthly rent for just her portion of the place, according to John Walkup, co-founder of real estate data analytics company UrbanDigs (via New York Post).
In comparison, Carrie admitted on the show she only paid $700 a month for her apartment, which was rent-controlled.
Two lucky fans got to live out their Sex and the City dreams thanks to Airbnb and Sarah Jessica Parker teaming up to rent a replica of Carrie’s dream apartment for two separate one-night stays in November.
The special collaboration came ahead of the December 9 premiere of the Sex and the City revival series, And Just Like That, which will stream exclusively on HBO Max.
The apartment was completed with a remake of Carrie’s tutu from the Sex and the City opening credits and came with a video welcome message from Parker herself as well as a brunch completed with Cosmopolitans.
“The Carrie Bradshaw character is near and dear to my heart, and revisiting her world for the continuation of the Sex and the City story has been such a joy,” Parker said in the Airbnb press release.
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