Chicago Bears wide receiver and punt return specialist Devin Hester has listed one of his three Chicago-area houses, marketing his five-bedroom, 3,100-square-foot home in Gurnee for $329,900.
Hester’s primary residence is his mansion in Riverwoods, which he bought in 2008 for $2.2 million. He also owns a house in Lake in the Hills that he purchased in 2007 for $205,000.
In Gurnee, Hester is set to take a pretty serious loss on his home. He paid $436,000 for it in late 2006.
Features include 31/2 baths, an upgraded kitchen, a family room with fireplace, a master suite with two walk-in closets and vaulted ceilings, a two-story living room, a finished basement and three-car garage.
Listing agent Lori Progar of Coldwell Banker in Libertyville likened the house’s decor to Hester’s exciting style of play.
“The house has that dramatic Devin look to it,” Progar said. “You walk in, and it has a two-story living room; it has a catwalk hallway upstairs, which opens to below; it has soaring ceilings in the master bedroom; and it’s just large, open and dramatic.”
Flipped condos. A Chicago options trader has flipped two full-floor condo units in a recently built Gold Coast tower for slightly more than $10 million — or $2.8 million more than he paid for them two years ago.
In May 2010, Igor Chernomzav paid $7.25 million through a limited liability company for the two units, on the 56th and 57th floors of the 60-story high-rise. The purchase of the units, which were sold to him as one duplex unit, included two parking spaces.
Right after buying the duplex, however, Chernomzav planned to remodel it and list it anew. He first listed the combined units in September 2010 for $10.5 million, and then reduced his asking price to $9.8 million. He later chose to list the two units as separate pieces of raw space.
Chernomzav recently sold the 6,000-square-foot, 56th-floor unit and one parking space to an LLC for $6.2 million. The unit’s sale price was $5.95 million, while its parking space cost another $250,000. Chernomzav had listed the unit for $6.35 million.
That same day, Chernomzav also closed on the sale of the 4,500-square-foot, 57th-floor unit and one parking space for $3.85 million. Chernomzav had listed that unit for $3.95 million.
Listing agent Tim Salm of Sotheby’s, who co-listed the units with Nancy Tassone, said the lone modifications that Chernomzav made were to convert the smaller 57th-floor space, which was intended to be the duplex’s “bedroom level,” into its own separate unit.
“The duplex was so large that splitting it up into two units, into more manageable spaces, ended up being the right move,” Salm said.
Chernomzav still owns a 6,432-square-foot unit on the building’s 52nd floor, which he bought in 2010 for $8.18 million.