31 Victoria Ave., Markham, Ont.<\/p>\n
Asking price: $3,880,000<\/p>\n
Lot size: 66 by 132 feet<\/p>\n
Taxes: $8,220 (2026)<\/p>\n
Listing agent: Sylvia Morris, Century 21 Leading Edge Realty Inc. <\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
The Gilmore Girls house is for sale, and until recently, its current owner didn\u2019t know the first thing about Stars Hollow or the rabid fandom for the early 2000s comedy-drama. In fact, he didn\u2019t live there at all during the show\u2019s 2000-2007 run.<\/p>\n
But now that 31 Victoria Ave. is for sale for the first time in 25 years, it\u2019s gone viral on social media. There\u2019s been a wave of interest in people coming to see the home.<\/p>\n
Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n Masood Mohajer was is an entrepreneur and world traveller who, in 2002, bought the house in the picturesque Markham, Ont. neighbourhood of Unionville, purely as an investment property. He fell for it during a wintry visit to Toronto to visit family a quarter century ago. It wasn\u2019t until his wife and three children moved into the house in 2010 that he began to realize that many of the period features he treasured were the same pieces of heritage charm that served as the backdrop for the domestic dramas and comedies of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore for many years.<\/p>\n \u201cThey had this sort of sheet about the house. And I remember I read through it, and it said something about a \u2018Gilmore Girl.\u2019 I had no clue what it was, absolutely no clue,\u201d said Mr. Mohajer, who tactfully avoided answering whether he\u2019s ever actually watched the show. After buying it, he rented it out to a couple of business executives over the next eight years, without too much thought about the whole Gilmore thing. <\/p>\n Not that he was unfamiliar with show business; over the years, four films used the home at different times. And Unionville \u2013 with its well-preserved main street \u2013 has been the site of several TV and film productions, including the pilot episode of Gilmore Girls filmed way back in 2000. <\/p>\n Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n The first big \u201cAh-Hah!\u201d moment came a few years back when there was a Gilmore Girls fan festival in town and the place was swarmed by the show\u2019s admirers.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was like, thousands of girls walking around the village,\u201d Mr. Mohajer said. By then, he knew this was potential trouble. \u201cI was very deliberate in telling the organizers: \u2018Please do not tell them where the house is.\u2019 Because I cannot have a kilometre-long queue of girls wanting to come into my house.\u201d<\/p>\n Nevertheless, at least one enterprising duo sniffed it out.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were these two rather demure-looking girls just walking up and down, pacing up and down,\u201d in front of Mr. Mohajer\u2019s house. He went to say hello, and indeed they had an inkling. \u201cThey asked me very sort of softly, \u2018Is this the Gilmore Girls\u2019 home?\u2019 And I felt so sorry for them, I said, yes, it is. They came in, they had a look at the house. They were from Lexington, Ky. \u2013 I remember this very clearly \u2013 they sent us a hand-stitched blanket as a gesture of thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n Happily, the Kentuckians didn\u2019t share the news with the rest of the festival, and that was it in terms of public attention until his house went up for sale last week.<\/p>\n The house today<\/p>\n The main entryway will be very familiar to fans: a set of double doors in the middle of the wraparound porch under a stained-glass transom. Indeed, a few times in the pilot, Rory and Lorelai walk through these doors into the foyer and through the arched doorway opposite that leads into the main living space.<\/p>\n