Former WSCR-AM 670 cohost Danny Parkins, who last year moved to New York to join Fox Sports 1, and his wife, Stephanie, on Dec. 20 sold their four-bedroom, 2,972-square-foot house in Wilmette for $925,000.
A New Trier High School alumnus and a Glencoe native, Parkins, 38, joined WSCR-AM in 2017 as an afternoon host alongside Matt Spiegel. In August, he was tapped to cohost the FS1 morning sports-talk show, “Breakfast Ball.”
In Wilmette, Parkins and his wife paid $845,000 in 2021 for the house that they just sold. Built in 1960, the house backs up to the Wilmette Golf Club and has five bathrooms, two fireplaces, an open floor plan, hardwood floors and a living room with a fireplace, ornate ceiling detail and a bay window.
Other features include a kitchen with an island, a bar and Viking, Sub-Zero and Bosch appliances, as well as a first-floor en-suite bedroom, a second-floor primary bedroom suite with new hardwood floors, volume ceilings and a bathroom with a dual sink vanity and a walk-in shower. Recently added features include second-floor windows and one of the home’s two furnaces, which was added last year.
“It was a pretty spectacular floor plan with exceptional upgrades, on a golf course (and) in an amazing school district. It checked a lot of boxes for a lot of clients,” listing agent Holly Connors of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate told Elite Street. “There were a lot of interested parties, largely because of the first-floor en-suite bedroom.”
Parkins and his wife first listed the house in September for $1 million, and found a buyer before the month ended.
The house had a $17,095 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
Parkins isn’t the only national sports-talk TV and radio figure dealing in real estate on the North Shore. FS1 midday host Colin Cowherd, who now is based in Chicago, and his wife, Ann, paid $4.45 million in December for a five-bedroom, 7,260-square-foot, vintage French Colonial-style mansion on a 1.24-are property. Cowherd also paid $3.25 million in January 2024 for a three-bedroom, 3,200-square-foot condominium unit on the 25th floor of the Park Tower building in Streeterville.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
