Hayden Panettiere Grew Up Here and Now Anyone Can Buy It for $3.6 Million
The house just went back on the market. And the timing is almost too perfect.
On June 16, 2026, weeks after Hayden Panettiere released her raw, personal memoir This Is Me: A Reckoning, her childhood home at 129 Washington Spring Road in Palisades, NY was relisted for $3.6 million.
The same home she grew up in. The same walls her late brother Jansen knew. The same street where her story and a lot of pain actually began.
A House With a Long, Complicated History
Hayden’s parents bought the property in 1998, the year it was built, when she was just 9 years old. They held onto it for years after she left, finally listing it in 2015 for $1.8 million. It sat. The price dropped. It eventually sold in 2021 for $1.22 million.
The current owners renovated it completely. New roof, Italian marble floors, hand-painted murals, Sub-Zero kitchen, silk wallpaper, koi pond.
They listed it in early 2025 for $4 million, pulled it in September 2025, offered it for rent at $17,500 a month in January 2026, then pulled it again. Now it’s back at $3.6 million through Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty.
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Where Celebrities Go to Disappear
Snedens Landing has around 100 homes and one winding road. No cut-through traffic. Bordered by the Hudson River and parks on all sides. About 25 minutes from New York City and feels like a different world.
Al Pacino, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Uma Thurman, Diane Sawyer. They have all called this place home at some point.
Angelina Jolie grew up just nearby. Privacy is the product, and this neighborhood has been delivering it for decades.
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In 2024, a mansion in this same enclave sold for a record $26.1 million, the highest single-family home sale in Rockland County history.
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Why This Matters
The price story here is hard to ignore. This home sold for $1.22 million in 2021.
It’s now asking $3.6 million, nearly a 195% jump in five years, in a market where Rockland County’s median home values have continued rising, with prices holding strong and homes selling close to full asking price.
It’s a pattern we’ve seen before. Joe Jonas listed his $6.75 million Brooklyn condo less than a year after buying it, and celebrity properties rarely sit quietly for long.
But the bigger pull right now isn’t the marble floors or the koi pond. It’s Hayden’s memoir.
In This Is Me, she writes about “lifequakes”, moments that broke her sense of self. She talks about her mother teaching her to cry on demand at age 8.
About being handed “happy pills” by her team at 15 before red carpets. About losing her brother Jansen and feeling like she lost half of herself.
“I will never be able to get over it,” she told People. “No matter how many years go by.”
That grief started in this house. And now, for $3.6 million, someone else gets to live there.
If you’ve ever felt torn about a place tied to both good memories and loss, does that change how you’d feel about buying it? Drop your thoughts in the comments below.
What’s Worth Knowing
This is a 3,473 sq ft, four-bedroom, 3.5-bath French-style home nicknamed the French Ivy House, with every detail you’d expect at this price point.
Ivy-covered stucco exterior, two gas fireplaces, two sitting rooms, a sunroom off the primary bedroom, and professionally landscaped grounds with a koi pond and stone patios.
It can be purchased fully furnished. It’s a short walk to the Hudson River, community tennis courts, and local parks. About 25 minutes to NYC, works as either a primary home or a weekend escape.
At $3.6 million, you’re not just buying square footage. You’re buying into one of the most private, historically rich celebrity neighborhoods in America, with a story attached that’s making headlines right now.
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