Former Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein and his spouse, Marie, on Friday bought their six-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot brick and limestone mansion in Lakeview for $3.5 million. The sale follows their buy final yr of an $11.9 million mansion in Greenwich, Conn.
Now a advisor for Major League Baseball, Epstein oversaw the Cubs’ baseball operations from 2011 till stepping down in November 2021. That included main the staff to the 2016 World Series title.
In Lakeview, Epstein and his spouse paid $3.25 million in late 2011 for the mansion, which at the moment was newly constructed. They outbid then-Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Sharp for the mansion.
The Epsteins first listed the mansion in September 2022 for $3.6 million by way of actual property brokers’ personal itemizing community, and the home briefly went below contract. After that deal fell by way of, the Epsteins and itemizing agent Jeff Lowe of Compass listed it publicly at the next, $3.75 million asking value.
The couple then listed the mansion for hire in December 2022 at $19,000 a month after which took it off the market on the finish of that month. They relisted it in July at $3.6 million and bought it on Aug. 25 for $3.5 million.
Situated on an extra-wide, 37.5-foot lot, the mansion has 5 full loos, two half loos, millwork and built-ins all through, excessive ceilings, a lounge with a customized limestone hearth, a curved staircase with a skylight above, and a kitchen with a marble island, a walk-in pantry and commercial-grade home equipment.
Other options embody an amazing room with excessive ceilings, a walkout patio and a major bed room suite with floor-to-ceiling home windows, a hearth, two walk-in closets, a moist bar and a marble lavatory. The mansion additionally has an amazing room, an connected four-car storage with a rooftop deck and a decrease stage with radiant warmth, a theater room and an outsized bar.
Lowe declined to touch upon the sale, and public information don’t but establish the consumers’ identities. The mansion had a $46,320 property tax invoice within the 2021 tax yr.
Meanwhile, in Greenwich, the Epsteins’ new six-bedroom mansion was inbuilt 2020 and has six loos, a white staircase that was impressed by New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, partitions of outsized home windows and doorways, Brazilian Garapa wooden siding, Belgian black granite touches, a zinc roof and reclaimed French oak flooring. The mansion’s decrease stage has a 500-square-foot fitness center, a bar, a wine cellar, a dwelling wall and a billiard room. The 1.79-acre property additionally has an infinity pool, a pavilion, stage lawns, a bridge over a brook and new stone partitions.
Joanne Mancuso, who represented the Epsteins in Greenwich, declined to touch upon their buy.
Goldsborough is a contract reporter.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com