Chicago Bulls guard Ayo Dosunmu, who is starting his third season with the team, paid $2.2 million in August for a recently built, six-bedroom, 4,716-square-foot contemporary-style house in Wicker Park.
A Chicago native, Dosunmu, 23, played for three years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before he was drafted by the Bulls in 2021.
In Wicker Park, Dosunmu used an opaque land trust to buy the house, which has a stone, brick and metal facade. Built in 2018, the house has five full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, 10-foot ceilings, a floating glass panel staircase and a kitchen with a 60-inch Sub-Zero refrigerator, a 90-bottle Sub-Zero wine and beverage center, a 48-inch Wolf cooktop, a double oven, a warming drawer, an industrial hood, a built-in espresso machine, two hidden spice shelving units and a large island with quartzite countertops and waterfall edges.
Other features include a primary bedroom suite with a custom closet system, a gas fireplace and a primary bathroom with porcelain and stone finishes and double sinks. The home has six outdoor spaces, including a garage roof deck, a deck off the primary bedroom suite and a fourth-floor roof deck with a gas fireplace, a seating area and a hot tub.
Shaena Flanagan of Coldwell Banker represented Dosunmu, as did Peter Angelo of Jameson Sotheby’s.
“What he liked about it was that it was nice and sleek. It has a rooftop deck with a hot tub, and when we were first sat down, these were things that he really wanted in a house,” Flanagan told Elite Street. “The location was a big factor, and the square footage was a big factor. The house has a movie theater, a game room and several bedrooms that are spacious, and everything was move-in ready. That was important — he didn’t want to do any type of renovation. He wanted it turnkey. For city life, that property is perfect.”
The house had a $20,816 property tax bill in the 2021 tax year.
Dosunmu is the latest Bulls player to buy in the city. DeMar DeRozan paid $4.5 million in 2021 for a 10,179-square-foot River North mansion, and Nikola Vucevic paid $4.75 million last year for a 5,245-square-foot home in Lincoln Park. Coby White paid $4.8 million in August for a 7,000-square-foot mansion in Lincoln Park.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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