The 1833 stone farmhouse that served as the on-screen home in the 2008 film "Marley & Me" sold Wednesday, June 10, for $2.3 million, nearly doubling its price from 15 years ago.
The property at 1175 Meetinghouse Road in West Chester fetched its full asking price with no negotiation, according to property records on Compass. The farmhouse went under contract April 4, roughly 10 days after hitting the market March 25. It last sold in November 2011 for $1,175,000.
Buyers got 15.8 acres, a 4,941-square-foot stone house with four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, a barn with room for five horses, a garage and several outbuildings. The former dairy farm carries a historical designation.
Both the interior and exterior appeared in the Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston film, which was adapted from the memoir by former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist John Grogan. The book spent 78 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list after its 2005 publication.
Real estate agent Michael Wallacavage of James A. Cochrane Inc. Realtor co-listed the property with broker Bill Cochrane. "The fact that it's in move-in condition is a real plus," Wallacavage told the Philadelphia Inquirer in April, when the home first hit the market.
The sale landed in a competitive local market. West Chester's median sale price reached $609,167 in June, with 62.4% of homes selling above list price and a median of just seven days to pending, according to Zillow. Chester County prices overall rose 3.9% year-over-year through June, per Redfin data.
At $2.3 million, the Meetinghouse Road sale dwarfs those medians. But the speed matched the broader trend: listed to pending in 10 days, closed in under three months.
The new owners' identities have not been disclosed in public records. Wallacavage told VISTA.Today that the estate suits buyers who can maintain the acreage and appreciate a historic property.
The film's producers converted what was originally a mudroom into the kitchen, adding hefty ceiling beams and wide plank floorboards to make it look original to the 1830s house, according to a behind-the-scenes account on the home design blog Hooked on Houses. Previous residents told the Daily Local News that people still pull over to photograph the farmhouse from the road.







