- Michael Jordan has sold his mansion in the Chicago suburbs after 12 years on and off the market.
- Jordan, who hasn’t lived there in years, listed it for $29 million in 2012. It sold for $9.5 million.
- The massive home has custom nods to Jordan throughout, which might be why it took so long to sell.
Michael Jordan’s mansion in the suburbs of Chicago, which has sat abandoned for years, has a new owner.
The legendary basketball star has officially sold the nine-bedroom home, which has been on the market on and off since 2012, for $9.5 million, according to property records.
Fourteen years ago, the former Chicago Bulls shooting guard listed the Highland Park, Illinois, mansion for $29 million. In 2015, he reduced the price to $14.855 million — whose digits add up to 23, the number on his Bulls jersey.
The mansion’s sale price is a 67% discount from its original asking price.
Listing agent Katherine Malkin, of Compass, told The Wall Street Journal that after buying the property in 1991, he spent about $50 million building the home.
The house is full of nods to Jordan’s basketball career, including the 23 on the front gate. His famous Air Jordan logo adorns the full-size indoor basketball court, and flag sticks on the putting green.
Even after various gimmicks, like offering a complete set of Air Jordans with purchase and marketing the home via videos in Mandarin to Jordan’s fans in China, the house sat abandoned.
Jordan splits his time between his home state of North Carolina and Jupiter, Florida.
Below, we take a closer look at a house once considered basically unsellable. Most images are from footage taken by Concierge Auctions, which held an unsuccessful auction for the house in 2013.
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