Audiences have wondered for years how the family in “Home Alone” was able to afford their beautiful Chicago-area home and now we know.

The Home Alone director, Chris Columbus, has revealed how Kevin's parents were able to afford their iconic house.

The Chicago mansion, which was listed at $5.25 million in real life and sold ahead of Christmas, has raised questions about the McCallister parents' careers

Just as Sex and the City fans pondered how Carrie Bradshaw could afford a rent-controlled Manhattan apartment all to herself on a freelance writer's salary, so too have Home Alone audiences wondered how Kate and Peter McCallister could afford such a massive suburban house in Chicago.

Insights from the film's director, Chris Columbus, over 30 years after the film first premiered. Home Alone Director Reveals How McCallisters Were Able to Afford Their House