Real Estate
N.J. Couple Spooked by ‘Watcher’ Sell $1.4 Million Home at Loss
- Unknown writer welcomed ‘young blood’ to fancy neighborhood
- Five-year nightmare ends as $1.4 million home sold at a loss
The “Watcher” house in Westfield, New Jersey.
Photographer: Julio Cortez/AP Photo
The New Jersey family plagued by a stalker’s spooky letters mailed to their $1.4 million dream home in Westfield has sold the six-bedroom property at a loss.
The “Watcher” house, at the center of an unsolved criminal investigation in one of Westfield’s poshest neighborhoods, was sold on July 1, according to a filed with the Union County clerk’s office. Derek and Maria Broaddus, who bought the 1905 Dutch colonial revival in June 2014 and never moved in, sold it to a couple for $959,360, records show.