$28 million home listing is tops for Chicago area
A 26-room, 27,000-square-foot mansion in Winnetka officially came on the market on Tuesday for $28 million, making it the single highest-priced listing in the ChicagoChicago reviews
area.
Known as Le Grand Reve, the six-bedroom, chateau-style mansion, which is owned by commercial real estate executive Sherwin Jarol and his wife, Deborah, sits on 2.04 acres.
Constructed in the last few years and completed in 2008, the two-story limestone mansion was designed by Los Angeles architect Richard Landry.
Features in the mansion include six full baths, four half baths and a grand entrance with a two-story rotunda and Tiffany dome.
The property was unofficially listed with a $32 million asking price during 2009 but was not formally placed on the market — and thus in the real estate multiple listing service — until Tuesday, when it officially was listed with its lower asking price.
“The house is amazing,” said co-listing agent Timothy Salm of Sudler Sotheby’s International Realty. “It’s definitely the trophy estate of the Chicago area. There’s nothing else like it.”
Ronda Fish of Sudler Sotheby’s also is a co-listing agent for the mansion.
Nothing else currently on the market in the Chicago area comes close to the listing price for Le Grand Reve.
Villa Taj, a brand-new, 30,000-square-foot mansion in Burr Ridge, was listed last year for $25 million but later was pulled from the market. It later was put up for auction and then pulled off the auction block right before the event began.
Currently, the only other Chicago-area residential properties officially listed for $10 million-plus are:
–A mansion in Lincoln Park that is listed for $10 million;
–JPMorgan Chase Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon’s Gold CoastThe Gold Coast reviews mansion, listed for $10.5 million;
–A lakefront mansion in Lake Bluff, listed for $10.9 million;
–Bill Wrigley Jr.’s Gold Coast penthouse, listed for $14 million;
–Wrigley’s Lake Forest mansion on Lake Michigan, listed for $14.5 million;
–A 14,961-square-foot mansion on 70-plus acres in Barrington Hills, listed for $14.5 million;
–The 21,036-square-foot Schweppe mansion on Lake Michigan in Lake Forest, listed for $15 million;
–And a 25-room mansion on 14.5 acres in Barrington Hills, listed for $17 million.
–Bob Goldsborough
