Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: the guy who became famous for a very awkward moment with a warm apple pie has quietly built one of the more impressive celebrity real estate track records in recent memory. Jason Biggs — and his wife, author and actress Jenny Mollen — have bought, sold, and upgraded their way through four distinct homes over the past two decades, and every single deal has turned a profit.
If you picture Biggs and think only of Jim from American Pie, you’re missing the bigger picture. From a mid-century perch above the Sunset Strip to a converted 19th-century factory in Manhattan’s West Village, the couple knows how to pick a property. And the story of how they ended up leaving Los Angeles? It involves a haunted house, a psychic, and a ghost dog. Seriously.
Let’s walk through every home they’ve owned.
The Hollywood Hills Perch: Buying From a Former Child Star
Their property story starts in March 2007, when Biggs — still best known for the American Pie franchise and a handful of other roles — paid $2.249 million for a contemporary home in the Hollywood Hills, perched above the Sunset Strip.
The seller was Fred Savage. Yes, the Wonder Years kid turned director. The house was a 1960s contemporary, roughly 2,756 square feet on a 0.2-acre hillside lot with a private drive. Three bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a vaulted-ceiling living room anchored by a dramatic trapezoidal wall of glass that framed canyon and city views all the way down to the coastline. A bi-level courtyard and enough mid-century character to make any architecture enthusiast pay attention.
Biggs held onto the property for eight years. When it finally sold in July 2015, it went for $2.565 million — a gain of just over $300,000. Not a home run, but a solid return on a place they’d clearly enjoyed rather than purely invested in.
The Benedict Canyon Estate: Where Things Got Weird
In late 2013, Biggs and Mollen made their biggest LA play yet — a $3.905 million purchase in upper Benedict Canyon, Beverly Hills. And this wasn’t a house. It was a 2.5-acre compound.
The hacienda-style main residence sat behind private gates, surrounded by tropical landscaping that made the whole property feel like a hidden resort. About 3,500 square feet with three bedrooms, plus a separate guesthouse, a tennis court, and a swimming pool. It was the kind of place people buy when they’re ready to stop moving.
Except they didn’t stop. Because, according to Mollen, the house was haunted.
The story — which she shared in a PEOPLE interview — is worth every word. A psychic informed her that the property had two supernatural residents: a ghost dog and his elderly male companion. The old man, apparently, wanted to teach their newborn son Sid historical facts.
She knew the only way to convince Jason to sell a house they’d owned for barely six months was to pitch a move to New York. Biggs, a Bergen County, New Jersey native who’d been itching to get back east, didn’t need much convincing.
The estate hit the market in May 2015 at $4.795 million and sold within a week for $4.5 million — roughly a $600,000 profit on a six-month hold. Whatever was haunting that house, it was very good for their finances.
The Tribeca Loft: Planting a Flag in Manhattan
Before they’d even officially left LA, Biggs and Mollen had already secured a foothold in New York. In October 2013 — the same year they bought the Benedict Canyon estate — they paid $2.55 million for a loft at 288 West Street in Tribeca.
The building was a converted 1860s spice warehouse, and the unit measured roughly 2,200 square feet with two to three bedrooms and two bathrooms. What made it special was the blend of industrial bones and curated design. Timber beams ran across the ceiling. Exposed brick lined the walls. The kitchen featured concrete countertops and professional-grade Viking and Sub-Zero appliances — the kind of setup that looks effortlessly raw but costs more than most people’s entire apartments.
The designer behind the transformation was Cliff Fong, a Los Angeles–based interior designer who had previously worked on two of their California homes. Fong brought the same philosophy to Tribeca: clean-lined modern furniture mixed with collected, lived-in pieces that gave the space real personality. The result felt less like a celebrity showplace and more like the home of someone with genuinely good taste and an unlimited curiosity about design.
The views sealed the deal — panoramic sightlines to the Hudson River and, on clear days, the Statue of Liberty. There was also a roughly 1,000-square-foot shared roof terrace with a gas grill, which in Manhattan is about as close as you get to owning private outdoor space. The building had other notable residents, too: the penthouse had previously belonged to Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany.
They listed the loft in 2017 — originally at $2.995 million, later reduced — and it sold in 2018 for $2.65 million. After five years of use as their transitional NYC base, they walked away with a modest $100,000 profit.
The West Village Condo: The Home That Finally Stuck
By 2017, the family — now with two sons, Sid and Lazlo — had outgrown the Tribeca loft. They found their answer in the West Village: a four-bedroom, five-bathroom condo in a converted 19th-century factory building, purchased for $6.975 million.
At 2,932 square feet, it offered nearly 30 percent more space than the Tribeca place, and the layout reflects a family that genuinely lives in every room. Tall, double-glazed UV-protected windows flood the interior with natural light. The floors are lightly stained oak laid in a herringbone pattern. The open-plan living and dining room stretches a full 30 feet, and the marble-clad kitchen features mahogany cabinets with select areas of wood left unpainted — a detail that keeps the whole room from feeling too polished.
Each of the four bedrooms has its own en suite bath. The primary suite stands apart with a private dressing room and a bathroom fitted with dual vanities, an oversize soaking tub, and a walk-in shower.
But what really makes this place theirs is how Mollen has layered it. She’s an interior design obsessive — she once described a brief period as a “midlife crisis where I decided I was a vintage-furniture dealer” — and she approaches their home the way a curator approaches a gallery. The vintage Turkish rug came from the Round Top Antiques Fair in Texas. A sofa she found for $300 at an Ohio flea market was re-covered in a bold teal fabric. Art was sourced everywhere from Hollywood dealers to Facebook Marketplace.
She collaborated with Jennifer Harrison, a designer she discovered through the popular Instagram account Flea Market Fab, to pull the whole thing together. The philosophy was simple.
The boys share a room by choice — Lazlo calls his top bunk “upstairs.” Family meals happen around the kitchen island rather than at a formal dining table. “Jason and I stand at the island like short-order cooks, constantly serving snacks,” Mollen joked.
The building itself rounds out the lifestyle: a fully staffed lobby with a fireplace, a courtyard garden, a wood-paneled fitness facility, a spa with steam rooms, and — in a distinctly New York touch — a half-court basketball court and a climbing wall. There’s also a paneled library curated by Assouline Publishing, because even the amenity spaces in this part of Manhattan have editorial taste.
How Their Taste Evolved — and What They Left Behind
One of the more interesting threads running through these four homes is how dramatically Biggs and Mollen’s aesthetic shifted when they crossed the country.
The LA properties leaned mid-century modern — clean lines, lots of glass, and an emphasis on bringing the outdoors in. The Hollywood Hills contemporary and the hacienda-style Benedict Canyon estate were both about architectural drama and California light.
New York pushed them in a different direction. The Tribeca loft had industrial bones, but Cliff Fong dressed it with more layered, collected pieces. And the West Village condo — with its herringbone floors, mahogany kitchen, and carefully sourced antiques — leans into a richer, more eclectic sensibility. Biggs himself has described the shift as a move toward Art Deco influences and plusher textures.
When they committed full-time to New York, they had to downsize significantly. That meant auctioning 421 items through Everything But the House, the online estate sale platform. The hardest piece to let go was a burnt-orange Le Corbusier couch that Biggs had owned since around 2005 — a piece that had followed him from apartment to apartment and had become, by his account, part of his identity. Proceeds from the sale went to an animal rescue charity.
The Pattern Behind the Moves
Here’s where the story gets strategic. Look at the numbers:
| Property | Bought | Sold | Profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollywood Hills | $2.249M (2007) | $2.565M (2015) | ~$316K |
| Benedict Canyon | $3.905M (2013) | $4.5M (2015) | ~$595K |
| Tribeca Loft | $2.55M (2013) | $2.65M (2018) | ~$100K |
| West Village Condo | $6.975M (2017) | Still owned | — |
Every property they’ve sold has turned a profit. That’s not an accident. Biggs bought the Hollywood Hills home before the market’s mid-2000s peak, held through the crash, and sold on the recovery. They bought Benedict Canyon at the right moment and flipped it into a hot Beverly Hills market — it moved in a week. Tribeca was a longer hold but still came out ahead. And the West Village condo, purchased in 2017, would almost certainly fetch significantly more today.
There’s also a pattern in how they design: never over-customized, always with broad appeal. Mollen’s choices are personal and distinctive, but they’re not the kind of polarizing renovations that alienate future buyers. It’s livable taste — the sort of thing that photographs beautifully and still feels like a real home where kids eat cereal on the counter.
What’s Next?
They’ve been in the West Village for several years now — the longest they’ve stayed in any single property since the Hollywood Hills. The boys are in school. Jenny is writing — her books include the New York Times bestseller Live Fast Die Hot and the novel City of Likes. Jason is working. The ghost dog is presumably still in Beverly Hills.
Could they buy a beach house someday? A country place upstate? With this couple, the next move is always around the corner. But if history is any guide, it’ll be well-timed, well-styled, and profitable.
So which of these homes would you take? I’m partial to the Tribeca loft — those warehouse bones with Hudson River views are hard to beat. But the Benedict Canyon compound, with its tennis court and hidden-garden vibe, has a strong case too.
