WMVP-AM weekday afternoon co-host and former Chicago Bears broad receiver Tom Waddle and his spouse, Cara, on Nov. 1 paid $1.5 million for a five-bedroom, 6,818-square-foot mansion in Long Grove.
The buy got here greater than 5 months after Cara Waddle and her husband, who performed for the Bears from 1989 till 1994 earlier than going into broadcasting, offered their five-bedroom, 8,000-square-foot mansion in Lake Forest for $3.1 million.
Built in 2006, the couple’s new residence in Long Grove has been renovated and has 5-1/2 bogs, two fireplaces, excessive ceilings, hardwood flooring, intricate moldings and millwork, designer lighting, arches and columns and a renovated kitchen with customized cabinetry, Wolf and Sub-Zero home equipment, marble counter tops and an island with seating. Other options embody a fantastic room with a floor-to-ceiling stone fire, a sunroom, a personal workplace with built-ins and a turret space, and a main bed room suite with heated flooring, a sitting space with an antechamber and twin walk-in closets.
The mansion additionally has a completed basement containing a recreation space, a devoted theater space, a wine cellar, an train room and a bar space with a fire. Outside on the 0.83-acre property are a patio and a fireplace pit.
The Long Grove residence had been listed for $1.49 million in mid-September, and it went underneath contract to promote to the Waddles simply two days later.
In Lake Forest, the couple had paid $2.15 million in 2015 for the 8,000-square-foot mansion. That implies that on paper at the least, they booked nearly a $1 million revenue of their sale in May, though undoubtedly offsetting a few of that acquire is the truth that they redecorated the mansion in 2019 and 2020. Built in 2002, the three-story brick and limestone home has 5 full bogs, two half bogs, a more recent DaVinci roof, a grand lobby with a double staircase and a chandelier, 10-foot ceilings, eight-foot doorways, hardwood and travertine flooring and tray and barrel ceilings.
The Lake Forest mansion additionally has 5 fireplaces, skylights, in depth moldings, wainscoting, a completed third ground with a kitchenette and a cedar closet, a heated four-car storage and radiant heated flooring on the principle stage, within the second-floor visitor suite and within the main suite’s toilet. Outside on the 1.8-acre property are an in-ground saltwater pool with a spa and an digital pool cowl, a round drive with a fountain, and a shed.
The Waddles first listed the Lake Forest mansion in actual property brokers’ personal itemizing community in March, for $3.25 million. They then publicly listed it in early April, and so they discovered a purchaser just a few days later.
Real property agent Mona Hellinga, who represented the Waddles each of their Long Grove buy in November and of their Lake Forest sale in May, declined to remark.
The Waddles’ new Long Grove home had a $37,345 property tax invoice within the 2022 tax 12 months, whereas their now-former Lake Forest mansion had a $53,490 property tax invoice within the 2022 tax 12 months.
Goldsborough is a contract reporter.
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