Former Chicago Cubs beginning pitcher Jon Lester and his spouse, Farrah, on Thursday bought their five-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot mansion and facet lot in Chicago’s Graceland West neighborhood for $3.5 million.
Lester, 38, was with the Cubs from 2015 till 2020, and was a key a part of their 2016 World Series-winning staff. He now could be retired from baseball after profitable precisely 200 video games in his profession.
In Graceland West, Lester and his spouse paid $3.77 million in 2015 for the mansion on Berteau Avenue. They then paid one other $1.35 million in 2016 for an adjoining facet lot.
The couple first listed the mixed properties in April 2021 for $5.99 million. They later minimize their asking value to $5.5 million, to $5.3 million after which to $4.99 million.
After that, the couple started itemizing the 2 properties individually — one might purchase the home for $3.85 million, and one might purchase the vacant lot individually for $1.15 million. The Lesters then lowered their asking value additional for the home in July, to $3.5 million.
Now, the couple have bought each the mansion and the facet lot collectively, at a loss, the agent for the patrons, Jeffrey Proctor, instructed Elite Street. The Lesters paid a mixed $5.12 million for the mansion and facet lot, and so they wound up shedding $1.62 million on it, or 31.7% of their buy value.
The mansion has 5-1/2 bogs and three fireplaces and sits on an 82-foot-wide lot. Lester purchased the mansion on a 42-foot-wide lot after which purchased an adjoining 40-foot-wide lot, on which they put in a sport courtroom and an outside kitchen. Other options within the mansion embody a kitchen with a butler’s pantry, a main bed room suite with a big walk-in closet, a four-stop elevator, a roof deck above the storage and a completed decrease stage with wooden paneling, a bar and a wine cellar, based on itemizing info.
Public information don’t but determine the patrons.
The mansion and its personal lot had a $73,684 property tax invoice within the 2020 tax 12 months, whereas the facet lot had a $6,460 property tax invoice within the 2020 tax 12 months.
Lester’s main residence is a gated seven-bedroom home in Atlanta that he and his spouse bought on the finish of 2013 for $3.4 million.
Goldsborough is a contract reporter.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com