'Breaking Bad' house in New Mexico for sale for $6.4m after owner says she's 'done' with fans

A humble suburban house made famous in Breaking Bad is for sale for $6.4 million, after the owner confessed she’s ‘done’ with stickybeak fans.

The house is not flash by broad real estate standards but has an asking price ten times that of others in the New Mexico neighbourhood.

That’s because it was the stage of Walter White’s family home in the TV series considered by critics as one of the greatest of all time.

However, that fame has come at some cost to the owner, Joanne Quintana, who is selling up for $US4 million (about $AU6.4 million) after coping for many years with fans dropping by the Albuquerque house, she told local TV station KOB4.

“This was our family home from 1973, almost 52 years. So we’re going to walk away with just our memories. It’s time to move on. We’re done. There’s no reason to fight anymore,” Quintana told KOB4.

She allowed TV cameras inside for the first time for story on the listing. The show used only the exterior, and stored camera gear and props inside.

The Quintana family have erected a fence to keep fans at a distance, enough for safety and comfort, and a second gate has been installed at the front door. A sign pleads with fans to take photos across the street and grant the owners some privacy.

Initially they would go outside and have photos with fans, Quintana told KOB4, but that changed when a package arrived, addressed to Walter White, at 4.30am one day, and they had to call the bomb squad.

Other antics from fans include some trying to recreate an iconic scene in which White, a high school science teacher-turned drug cook played by Bryan Cranston, hurls a pizza onto the roof.

Quintana was present the day of filming and told KOB4 that producers had plenty of pizzas at the ready but Cranston got it in one take.

The show ran from 2008 to 2013 and still, for more than a decade since it aired, fans have turned up to the house to take photos. They do so day and night.

Despite this constant intrusion, Quintana recalls enjoyable personal experiences with the cast, following a knock on the door that would change her family’s life.

Quintana’s mother Fran answered the door in 2006 to a location scout who wanted to use the home for a pilot. That would be for Breaking Bad, the show which won 92 awards and was entered into the Guinness World Records in 2014 as the most critically-acclaimed TV series of all time.

Fran would make cookies for the cast and crew on filming days, but a crucial storyline meant the show’s biggest star could not partake.

“What was funny was Bryan Cranston could not eat not one cookie,” Quintana told KOB4.

“Because he had cancer in the show, so he was losing weight. So he would pass, but everybody, all the directors, all the writers would eat the cookies. The last day of shooting, he takes a picture holding my mom’s biscotti because he finally got to eat her cookies.”

Cranston won six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards for his role as White.