Murder House Sells $700K Over Asking

The house is in San Francisco, not Los Angeles, and that detail matters because this story is really about the Bay Area housing market doing Bay Area housing market things. A home at 930 Monterey Blvd. in Westwood Highlands — the site of a family murder-suicide in October 2025 — sold for $2.2 million after being listed around $1.5 million. It went pending in four days and closed on April 15. Basically, even a property with a recent and horrifying history still drew enough demand to blow past asking. ### What house are we talking about? This is a three-bedroom, two-bath Mediterranean-style home in Westwood Highlands, a residential neighborhood in southwestern San Francisco. The listing went live on March 20 at $1,499,950, and public reporting says it sold for $2.2 million less than a month later. That is the sale behind the “$700K over asking” line. (patch.com) ### Why is it called a murder house? Because the property was the site of a murder-suicide in October 2025. Reports tied to the case say Paula Truong killed her husband, Thomas Ocheltree, and their two daughters, then died by suicide. The deaths gave the home the kind of stigma that usually scares off at least some buyers — but turns out not enough of them. (hoodline.com) ### So how far over asking did it really go? About $700,000. The math is simple: list price just under $1.5 million, closing price $2.2 million. That gap is big anywhere, but it looks even bigger here because the house had a very recent tragedy attached to it. In a softer market, that stigma might have forced a discount. Here, it barely stopped the momentum. (patch.com) ### Why would buyers still bid that aggressively? Because in San Francisco, asking price is often just the opening move. Sellers and agents frequently price below what they think the market will bear, then let scarcity and competition do the rest. A house can be emotionally difficult and still be financially attractive if(patch.com)sad backstory attached. (ktvu.com) ### Did the home sit for long? Not at all. It reportedly spent only four days on the market before going pending. That is one of the clearest tells in the whole story. Fast sales usually mean buyers were ready, financing was lined up, and multiple people likely decided the stigma was not enough to outweigh the location and the perceived deal. (hoodline.com) ### Is this normal for stigmatized properties? Not exactly. Homes tied to violent deaths often sell at a discount, take longer to move, or require extra disclosure and careful marketing. But “often” is not “always.” In extremely supply-constrained markets, stigma can get treated as just another variable in the pricing equat(hoodline.com)t happened here. (patch.com) ### What does this say about the market? It says demand is still strong enough that even bad facts do not automatically kill a deal. The more interesting part is not that a house sold — it is that the sale happened quickly and at a premium. That suggests buyers are still competing hard for limited inventory, especially in established San Francisco neighborhoods. (hoodline.com) ### Bottom line? This was not just a grim real-estate curiosity. It was a stress test for buyer demand, and demand won. A house with one of the worst possible recent histories still sold fast and high — which tells you a lot about how intense San Francisco housing remains.