What Your Favorite TV Homes Are Worth—Then And Now

We've opened up our homes to the Cosby clan, the dysfunctional families on "Mad Men" and a loveable "Modern Family"—and in turn, they opened up their fictional homes to eager viewers who relate to their scripted lives.

While we all know Carrie Bradshaw's "Sex and the City" digs were out of her journalist price range (trust us), do you ever wonder just how far on up the Jeffersons moved or the actual price of that "Downton Abbey" castle?

Vanity Fair spoke with our friend and "Shark Tank" real estate expert Barbara Corcoran, who looked at famous TV properties past and present to reveal their worth at the time of air and presently.

Sorry, "Golden Girls," but doesn't look like four raucous ladies in their latter years could have afforded the Miami sorority house they called home.

See which other popular TV homes are worth a lot—and those that are not.

"The Jeffersons" (1975–1985)

LOCATION: From a working-class neighborhood in Queens to an extravagant Manhattan apartment referred to as “Colby East.” In real life, the home was located at the Park Lane, a 35-story, 442-unit residential building at 185 East 85th Street.

THEN: “In 1975, rent on that apartment was between $600 and $800 in real life,” says New York real estate titan and "Shark Tank" panelist, Barbara Corcoran. “But today, all these years later, you would pay [that] on a monthly parking spot in that building—in the garage!”

NOW: Corcoran estimates the apartment would rent for about $3,600/month today.

"The Cosby Show" (1984-1992)

LOCATION: While viewers belived the Cosby clan lived in Brooklyn Heights, the real home was located at 10 Leroy Street in the West Village.

THEN: In 1984, a Brooklyn Heights brownstone would have gone for around $700,000.

NOW: A Brooklyn Heights town house would cost $5–$7 million, estimates Corcoran.

"Modern Family" (2009-Present)

LOCATION: When Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Gloria (Sofia Vergara) Pritchett lay down at night, it's in this Brentwood home built in 1992 by by Abramson Teiger architects. The show's co-creator Steven Levitan told the LA Times, “I would drive past it every day, and it looked like the modern house that so many rich, divorced older guys seem to end up in.”

THEN: 121 South Clifford Avenue last sold in 1997 for $2,695,000.

NOW: Due to California’s housing bubble, it’s worth about half that now, according to Corcoran.

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