The Iconic Home Alone House Has Found a Buyer in Time for Christmas — See Inside!

The Alone in the house the house has found its next owners!

The five-bedroom, six-bathroom home featured in the beloved 1990 Christmas classic hit the market with an asking price of $5.25 million and went under contract shortly after it was listed.

“We are thrilled with the way this home has captured everyone’s attention and hearts for its well-deserved place in cinematic history and the timeless holiday memories it evokes,” listing agents Dawn McKenna and Katie Moor of Coldwell Banker Realty told PEOPLE in a statement.

A home going up for sale has made national headlines and led to a pending offer after less than a week on the market, PEOPLE can confirm.

The view from the ‘Home Alone’ house.

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The Winnetka, Illinois estate was the center of the classic holiday film in which eight-year-old Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, is mistakenly left home alone after his family went on Christmas vacation.

McKenna previously told PEOPLE that the property — which features a fully equipped gym, a state-of-the-art movie theater, an indoor sports court with a 3-point line and a heated three-car garage — is “a rare legend that lives up to its hype in every way.”

“This house has it all. It’s iconic, full of modern amenities and in one of the best neighborhoods in the country,” she says.

Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci in the movie ‘Home Alone’.

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The nostalgic property previously belonged to Tim and Trisha Johnson, who bought it in 2012 for $1.585 million, according to Mansion Global.

Speaking about some of their fondest memories there, Trisha told the paper: “Sometimes we’ll hear Kevin scream [from outside]. It’s so much fun to see people as excited as they are just to see my house.”

The view from the ‘Home Alone’ house.

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Another former resident, Laura Abendshien, lived in the house while the film was being made and shared her unique experience on a British morning show This morning.

“We stayed in the house for almost the entire period, which was about four or five months,” she said. “To avoid appearing on the screen, we’d have to crawl around the window from room to room.”

She also recalled how the cast, including Culkin, hung out around the house between scenes.

“They would spend time at the house when they weren’t filming their scenes. Macaulay Culkin used my study room with his teacher, and his brother [Keiran]he didn’t shoot that much, so he would just hang out in my room,” she recalled.

“We saw something special happening, but we didn’t anticipate how big a hit it would be,” she said of the reception for the family comedy that spawned two sequels.

“It was very surreal when the movie came out and suddenly it was the holiday season in 1990 and there was an endless line of cars and people wanted to see the house and take pictures and it was very new to us, but we grew to love it and we shared the magic of the movie .”

The view from the house ‘Alone in the house’.

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Originally built in 1921, the 9,126-square-foot property sits behind wrought-iron gates on a tree-lined street.

The interior of the home will not look so familiar to fans alone at home however. The rooms were too small to accommodate a full film crew, so the production built a full two-story sound stage inside a nearby abandoned school building.

After renovations in 2018, the home now features a family room with high ceilings and French doors that open to the backyard. There is also a chef’s kitchen, a second family room, a screened-in porch with a wood-burning fireplace. The space is ready for a family the size of the McCallisters, thanks to two laundry rooms upstairs and downstairs and a mud room.

The view from the ‘Home Alone’ house.

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On the second floor is the primary suite with a gas fireplace, walk-in closet and marble bathroom, while the third floor has been converted from an old loft into a junior primary suite.

“From the promise of movie nights and game days to holiday gatherings surrounded by loved ones, this magical family home truly transcends its architectural pedigree,” the listing adds. “It’s a chance to own a piece of cinematic history and create lasting memories within its iconic walls.”

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