Former Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith and his son, Matt, in April sold a four-bedroom, 2,906-square-foot house in Wilmette for $1.27 million.
The house was not the residence of Lovie Smith, who until earlier this year was the head coach of the Houston Texans. However, he and his son paid $820,000 for the house in late 2020.
They placed the house on the market in February for $1.25 million and sold it in April for an amount that was above its asking price. Built in 1957, the house has 3-1/2 bathrooms, three fireplaces, hardwood floors on the first floor, wool carpets upstairs, a recently renovated kitchen with an island, an en-suite primary bedroom with a large walk-in closet and a basement with a rec room and an area that has been dug out.
Listing agent Kelly Maggio declined to comment on the sale. However, Smith and his son previously owned another house on the exact same street, which they had bought in 2010 for $455,000 and sold in 2013 for $630,000.
The primary residence for Smith, who was the Bears’ head coach from 2004 until 2012, and his wife, Mary Anne, is in Scottsdale, Ariz., where they paid $2.37 million in 2018 for a six-bedroom, 7,965-square-foot house.
The Wilmette house had a $14,288 property tax bill in the 2021 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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