“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the sequel to the 1988 Tim Burton horror comedy, raked in $110 million during its opening weekend in September. But how much would it cost to buy the Connecticut house where most of the movies' action takes place?

There's no price tag to check because it's not a real house -- just a facade built in nearby Vermont, coupled with a series of interior sets. But a just-for-fun listing prices the fictional house around $461,000. The 2,000-square-foot house would feature three bedrooms, two baths, a large kitchen, a one-car garage -- and a gateway to the afterlife in the attic, occupied by two friendly ghosts.

The fictional listing sparked a bit of interest in other famous movie and TV locations, and what they might draw in today’s market. Here are a few Hollywood-worthy properties of note.

Based on Google data, Harry Potter’s first home is among the most popular movie-location searches. To be clear, this isn't the Dursleys' house on Privet Drive, where Harry grew up. Rather, Google searches racked up for a house in the fictional town of Godric's Hollow, where Harry lived as an infant with his parents before He Who Must Not Be Named swept in.

In real life, Godric's Hollow is Lavenham, England, and the Potter residence is De Vere House, which dates back to the 14th century. It was on the market several years ago for about 1 million pounds, but is now run as a bed-and-breakfast. Potter fans can find it on Airbnb.

In "Full House" and in real life, the Tanner home is located at 1709 Broderick Street in San Francisco. It was home to nine people and a dog on the show, but the place has only four bedrooms and 3.5 baths. That’s a lot of doubling up! If you've got deep enough pockets, you can buy this piece of sitcom history, currently listed at $6.5 million.

The home from "Mrs. Doubtfire" is also in San Francisco, at 2640 Steiner St. in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. The 3,300-square-foot, three-level Victorian was built in 1893 and has four bedrooms and four baths. It sold for $4.1 million in 2016, and would likely fetch more than $5 million today.

Another cinematic icon is the "Home Alone" mansion at 671 Lincoln Ave. in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Illinois. The 1921 Georgian-style colonial where 8-year-old Kevin McAllister (played by Macaulay Culkin) was left to his own devices at Christmastime is currently on the market for $5.25 million. The house has five bedrooms and six baths.

The house from "The Brady Bunch" is another expensive family hangout. Located at 11222 Dilling St. in North Hollywood, California, the place was used only for exterior shots. Nevertheless, the house sold in 2023 for $3.2 million, according to Zillow. Reportedly the second-most photographed house in the country (after the White House), the Bradys' joint was built in 1959 and has been remodeled on HGTV.

Of course, not all made-for-TV residences are houses. Some are apartments, such as the "Friends" unit in New York City. Exterior shots place the apartment at 90 Bedford St. in the West Village. Roommates Monica and Rachel (Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston) rented the two-bedroom, one-bath apartment for a whopping $200 per month -- thanks to decades of rent control. (The unit had been Monica's grandmother's.) Today, monthly rent for a similarly sized unit would be more than $5,000.

Carrie Bradshaw’s place in "Sex and the City" is in an unnamed building at 66 Perry St., also in the West Village. It is doubtful that Sarah Jessica Parker's columnist character could afford today’s estimated rent of $6,000. Nor could she afford to buy the unit, which would be worth an estimated $1.4 million if the building went condo.

Not all famous houses are worth nearly that much, though. Take the "Breaking Bad" house at 3828 Piermont Dr. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The place where Walter White (Bryan Cranston) cooked up meth is worth just $352,300 on today’s market, according to Zillow.

Since this is Halloween weekend, let’s end with a look at a famous horror house. "The Amityville Horror" took place in the New York town of the same name, but the movie house is located in Toms River, New Jersey. The four-bedroom property sold last year for $1.5 million.

Sometimes, homebuyers are hesitant to pull the trigger. They might love the house they found -- it’s priced right and mortgage rates are coming down -- but they just can’t decide whether to move forward.

So what can sellers do to sweeten the pot a bit -- to get buyers to make an offer and sign a contract?

In previous down markets, sellers have offered all kinds of incentives to seal the deal with hesitant buyers. They’ve thrown in trips to Europe, island cruises, even fancy sports cars. And they are likely to do so again, at least in the luxury sector.

Those are nice, to be sure. But let’s get real: They hold little sway with the typical buyer. (Besides, the insurance on those sports cars can be just as breathtaking as a drive down Pacific Coast Highway with the top down.)

On a more practical note, here are some incentives and concessions sellers might want to consider.

-- Buy-downs. The majority of builders now offer to cover the cost of lowering a buyer’s mortgage rate for the first year or two. And individual sellers can do the same. It works!

At a cost to you of roughly 1% of the sales price, you can cut the buyer’s rate by 0.25% for the first 12 months. Pay a little more, and you can trim their rate further, and for longer periods.

According to an analysis by Zonda Home, half of all builders are willing to buy rates down to as low as 4%. Whether you need to go that far -- or can afford to -- is for you to decide. To determine the actual costs, sit down with your agent or mortgage broker and run the numbers.

-- Assumable. If you have a low-rate mortgage, find out if you can pass it on to your buyer. Loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration and backed by the Department of Veterans Affairs can be assumed by another borrower, and so can some other mortgages.

Check with your lender to ascertain whether your loan can be taken over. If it can, advertise that fact. After all, a mortgage at 3%, 4% or even 5% is extremely attractive in today’s market.

-- Inspection. Savvy sellers have their homes inspected -- and get any flaws fixed -- before putting them on the market. And savvy buyers will want their own inspections before moving forward. So why not offer to pay the cost of the buyer’s inspection?

-- Repairs. If the buyer's inspector turns up some real problems your guy missed, offer to pay for at least part of the repairs. Of course, if the second exam turns up nothing, you are off the hook.

-- Warranty. Most buyers now expect the house to come with a seller-paid warranty that lasts for a year. When the year is up, the warranty company will badger the new owner about the benefits of renewing -- but by then, they’ll have to pay the freight. So throwing in an extra year or two of coverage could be meaningful.

-- Speed. If you want to get to the settlement table quickly, offer a credit at closing as an incentive. On the other hand, if the buyer wants to proceed more slowly, allowing them the time they need may make a difference.

-- Closing costs. Buyers will have to pay a slew of settlement fees and charges that add up to anywhere from 5% to 7% of the sales price. Sellers will have to pay some fees, too. But if you offer to take some of the burden off your buyer’s shoulders, it could be just what the doctor ordered.

-- Commission. Nowadays, buyers are obligated to pay their agents, just like you are obligated to pay yours. So consider paying the buyer's agent on their behalf (which is the way it used to be, anyway).

-- HOA costs. If your community is run by an HOA, think about paying the buyer’s dues for a year or longer. That will help ease their first year’s costs, which can be substantial, especially for a first-time owner. Some homebuyers don’t even realize they're becoming default members of the HOA and that they have to pay dues -- whether or not they use the golf course, pool or exercise room.

-- Personal property. If the buyer has an eye on something in the house that you had planned to take with you -- say, your favorite leather couch -- consider letting it go. If they want it bad enough, it may be enough to seal the deal.

Remember, in real estate, everything is negotiable. Everything!

-- Moving. Offer to pay some or all of the buyer’s moving costs, which can run several thousand dollars. Moving from one residence to another is daunting enough without worrying about how you are going to pay for it.

In short, any cost you can take off the buyer’s shoulders is a good thing.

To curb money laundering, Uncle Sam is expanding a rule requiring settlement providers to determine and report the names of participants in all-cash transactions. But the trend of seller impersonation fraud is proving harder to stop.

First, the fraud. According to numerous sources, more and more homeowners are falling victim to seller impersonation scams, in which a fraudster claims to own a property using phony documents as proof. If no one at the title company is eagle-eyed enough to notice the rip-off, and the local recording office doesn’t spot it, either, a new deed is issued in the swindler’s name.

The con artist then turns around and "sells" the property at an attractively low price, absconding with the proceeds before anyone is the wiser. By the time the deed -- no pun intended -- is done, the con is long gone.

The scam is often run on vacant land or unoccupied vacation homes, but not always: In one recent case in North Carolina, a woman managed to obtain the title to a multimillion-dollar house despite it still being occupied by the real owner and his family.

ABC reporter Diane Wilson wrote that "according to North Carolina law, the Register of Deeds does not have a duty to verify the legal sufficiency of a deed when it is presented for registration," although "the office can refuse to record a document if fraud is suspected." (It wasn't, in this case.)

It’s hard to say how prevalent seller impersonation fraud is. For one thing, if the targeted property is vacant land, it can be months -- or even years -- before the real owner even discovers the fraud. Also, this type of scam is not a separate category in most crime statistics. For example, the Federal Trade Commission says nearly $2.7 billion in losses were reported from imposter scams in 2023, but that includes all imposter schemes -- not just real estate ones.

A study prepared for the American Land Title Association (ALTA) is more telling. It found that 28% of title insurance companies experienced at least one attempted title theft in 2023. Of those, 16% said they had paid claims related to seller impersonation.

In August, six industry and consumer groups -- including ALTA, the National Association of Realtors and the National Notary Association -- formed a coalition to address this type of scam. They released an educational brief called "What Is Deed Fraud?" to publicize the issue and advocate for changes.

Among other things, the groups want better protections for taxpayer information, while keeping land records accessible and public; more ID-verification options for in-person notarizations; and new continuing education requirements for real estate licensees and notaries. The groups also want property owners nationwide to have free access to property recording notification systems -- something only a handful of states currently offer.

Other than these proposed steps, though, property owners are typically on their own when it comes to combating imposter fraud. It helps if they purchased an enhanced title insurance policy when they bought the place: An enhanced policy generally covers events after the title is transferred, whereas a regular policy only covers events prior to taking ownership.

If the owner opted out of an enhanced policy and comes up against impersonation fraud, they'll have to hire an attorney to sort out the problem. To help support victims, the six industry groups are calling on state legislatures and local governments to earmark more resources for combating fraud. They also are asking governments to step up and help legit owners reestablish titles in their names.

Some states are rising to the occasion: In New York, where deed theft was not a crime previously, a new law now names it a form of grand larceny and extends the statute of limitations, giving prosecutors at the state and local levels more time to investigate cases.

When identifying potential cases of fraud, title companies told ALTA that common red flags included transactions involving vacant land and requests to use an unknown notary. All-cash transactions also carry a higher risk, they said.

Speaking of all-cash transactions: Title companies and attorneys will soon have to report the identities of all parties involved in all-cash real estate deals. It's part of a continuing effort to thwart drug cartels and foreign officials from laundering ill-gotten gains through American real estate.

Previously, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) required title companies and attorneys to report the names of the “beneficial owners” of limited liability corporations and the like in cash deals over $300,000 in certain locations. But starting Dec. 1, the dollar threshold will be removed, as will the geographic limits.

FinCEN also is expanding the amount of information that must be reported. Now, reporting persons must provide their names and addresses, as well as those of both parties to the transaction, plus their dates of birth and taxpayer identification numbers.

The agency also wants information about any money that changes hands, including the amounts and the names of the financial institution from which the payment was drawn. If a lender not subject to anti-money-laundering rules was involved, it wants information about that lender, too.