Suburban mansion breaks record for highest sale price in Chicago area

For the second time this year, a suburban mansion has reportedly set a record with its sale price.

A lakefront Winnetka mansion just sold for $34.5 million, topping the record-setting price of another mansion in the same suburb just months earlier.

Listing agent Jena Radnay confirmed the sale to NBC Chicago Wednesday.

“It feels amazing,” she said. “I’m thrilled for all the residents of Winnetka.”

The mansion, featured in Architectural Digest in 2019, was designed by Northworks Architecture, which described the property as “a custom-made home that blends classic French Provincial architecture with the necessary elements of a modern-day lifestyle.”

“Set high above Lake Michigan on the bluffs of Chicago’s North Shore, a new country estate reveals sweeping views over the water. Surrounded by gardens, its timeless aesthetic creates the impression that the house could have been built long ago,” the architectural company’s website states.

Features include a terrace, swimming pool, lux gardens, a greenhouse, heated pool pavilion, a boathouse and more.

Sellers of the home were Jeffrey and Ashley Quicksilver, who purchased the property in 2013 for $8 million. They ended up tearing down the original home on the property and listed the land for sale, along with their building plans, for $10.5 million in 2014. They ultimately went ahead with the build of their home on the property soon after, however.

Radnay noted that the recent sale price included some of the mansion’s contents along with the property.

The Chicago Tribune reports the recorded sale price, according to a public record, was $32.5 million, which would indicate the furniture was valued at $2 million.

Even at $32.5 million, however, the sale eclipses the previous record set by another Winnetka mansion known as the “Windsor House.”

That home sold in August for $31.25 million, marking the “highest-priced home resale in Chicago-area history” at the time.

While the Tribune noted that other properties have sold for higher totals, those were considered “multiparcel assemblages.”

Radnay, who was also the agent behind the previous record-setting sale, said the two exceptionally high sales highlight Winnetka’s growth and value.

“I’m all about showcasing to the state of Illinois how special Winnetka the beach town is. This only confirms further why Winnetka is the destination in Illinois if you want community, you want schools, you want a sense of security. These numbers that have happened? They further confirm how Winnetka is No. 1,” she told NBC Chicago.