
Aaron Hernandez's Massachusetts home has finally sold for $1million.

The 5,647 sq ft home in North Attleboro has been listed for sale since long before the NFL star took his own life in jail and despite several reported attempts, a deal to sell it was never finalized.

This week, it was finally sold to 23-year-old Arif Khan, a budding real estate investor and Patriots fan.

Khan snapped up the property, with the help of his father, $500,000 less than its original asking price but hopes to sell it for $1.4million by the end of next year.

Hernandez first listed it for sale in March 2016 for $1.5million after he was convicted of murdering his friend Odin Lloyd three years earlier.

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Aaron Hernandez's five-bedroom, 5,647 sq ft home in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, has sold for $1million

It is not clear what he initially paid for the home when he moved in not long after signing with the New England Patriots in 2010 but it was where Hernandez lived when he killed Lloyd and became a focal point of his murder trial.

Jurors were shown surveillance footage taken on the very cameras he owned in which he was seen walking around the home with a gun.

It was also where Shaynna Jenkins, his loyal fiancee, was filmed removing a box wrapped in a garbage bag at his request after he was arrested for Lloyd's murder in 2014.

The house languished on the market for more than a year. When Hernandez was charged with additional murders, those of Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu who were shot to death in 2012, his attorneys lowered the price to $1.3million.

It went down again to $1.2million earlier this year.

Hernandez killed himself at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts in April this year after being cleared of Furtado and de Abreau's bloody murders.

The sprawling home features an enormous lobby entrance with double staircases leading to the second floor

There are rooms to either side of the grand staircase which were used as entertainment areas when the footballer lived there

One of several entertainment rooms inside the home where Hernandez lived until 2014 when he was arrested

Doctors have since determined that he was suffering from one of the worst cases of CTE - a brain condition widely suffered by NFL players which is caused by repeated blows to the head - when he died.

He had also smoked synthetic marijuana and was found hanging in his cell next to an open bible verse.

Hernandez's spectacular fall from grace - which began with his arrest for Lloyd's murder in 2014 and continued as his extensive drug use and gangster lifestyle were poured over in court - put many buyers off the home.

Khan, who also owns a nearby hotel, is not one of them.

'Nobody wants to buy a house with Aaron Hernandez’s name on it, but I feel a name change and a little upgrade on the property will increase its value.

'It was a very cheaply priced property for what it is and the location is spectacular because of its size and proximity to the nearby Patriots stadium,' he told DailyMail.com.

The kitchen is family style and features tiled floors, wooden cabinets and intricate tiling on the walls

Another of the huge entertainment rooms which was enjoyed by the footballer. All of the furniture was removed after his arrest

An entertainment room in the home where a chalkboard still had a game of knots and crosses on it when the house was staged

Another entertainment room in the house which Hernandez enjoyed with his friends and associates

A dark movie theater with a plush red carpet remains in the home. The new owner plans to make considerable changes

A study inside the home where Hernandez lived after joining the Patriots in 2010. He played three seasons for the team

Outside there is a large pool and poolhouse which is also fitted with a sauna

Khan, a Patriots fan himself whose father helped him with the money to buy the house, says he even hopes he will sell it on to another NFL player.

The house has five bedrooms, a sauna, swimming pool, movie theater and grand lobby entrance but Hernandez's legal troubles are literally written on the walls.

'It was honestly in pretty bad condition. There were doors broken down, I assume by the police.

'There was also a big water leak in the garage. The garage has to be gutted,' Khan continued.

He is not daunted by the prospect and hopes to add another $400,000 to its price tag by the time he has finished restoring and improving it.

'It just seems like there's so much upside there,' he said. The issue of who will get the money from the sale is a thorny one.

When Hernandez died, he had just $200,000 in retirement accounts.

Hernandez lived in the home until June 2014 when he was arrested for the murder of Odin Lloyd which took place a year earlier

During his trial, jurors were shown surveillance footage of him walking around the home with a gun in his hand before and after Odin's murder on June 17, 2013

The day after Odin's murder, Shayanna Jenkins, his fiancee, was filmed removing a large box from inside the home which was later destroyed. She said she did not know what was inside it but had been told by Hernandez to remove it

The back exterior of the home where there is also a grill. The new owner said he would not be put off by all that has happened there

There are five large bedrooms in the home including this one which leads on to a balcony overlooking the backyard

Another of the bedrooms is painted in a girly purple and likely belonged to Hernandez's four-year-old daughter Avielle

The master bathroom with a large hot tub bath and his and her sinks. It features the same cabinets as the kitchen

He planned to appeal his murder conviction and wanted to reclaim $6million which the Patriots refused to give him when he was arrested.

Hernandez (above during his first trial in 2015) killed himself in April this year

The $6million was part of his salary from the Superbowl-winning team.

In May, his lawyers successfully appealed to have his murder conviction vacated on the grounds that he was planning to appeal it when he died.

It does not mean that he was not guilty of the crime itself but rather that the conviction no longer stands because he is dead and because he had not yet had his appeal heard when he died.

The vacation however undermined an existing wrongful death lawsuit filed against the 28-year-old's family by the family of Odin Lloyd, his victim.

They wanted $6million on the grounds that Hernandez had killed their son. With his conviction now vacated, his estate has stronger grounds to have it thrown out.

Ursula Ward, Odin Lloyd's mother, said she was prepared to go after the NFL for the money if she had to.

Since his death, Shaynna has also sued the NFL which she claims is responsible for her fiance's severe CTE. In a lawsuit filed in September, she demanded $20million from the league but she later dropped.

In October, lawyers she was working with said they planned to refile.

He was acquitted of murdering Safiro Furtado (left) and Daniel de Abreu (center) but had been earlier convicted of shooting dead Odin Lloyd (right). That conviction has since been vacated because Hernandez was in the process of appealing it when he died