Former Chicago Bears cornerback Trumaine McBride has listed his five-bedroom, 3,417-square-foot house in Wadsworth for $319,999.
After two seasons with the Bears, McBride, 26, left the team after the 2009 season and later played for Arizona and Jacksonville. He currently is an unaffiliated free agent.
McBride paid $354,000 in May 2008 for the house in Wadsworth’s Midlane Country Club development.
“It’s a great house and a great value, priced under what he paid for it because he bought at the height of the market,” said listing agent Lori Glattly of Prudential Rubloff.
Features include three full baths, a gourmet kitchen with granite countertops and an island, a first-floor office, crown moldings, volume ceilings, a wrought-iron banister, a finished lower level and a three-car garage.
“It’s nicely appointed,” Glattly said.
A mansion remade
An 18-room mansion in Tinley Park that former basketball star Antoine Walker lost to foreclosure has been renovated and listed for $1.79 million.
Built in 2004, the six-bedroom, 15,570-square-foot mansion is located in the Odyssey Country Club development in Tinley Park. Walker, a Chicago native who played in the NBA for 13 seasons but never for the Chicago Bulls, paid $288,000 for the 0.89-acre lot in 2001, and soon had the mansion built. Records show that Walker and his mother owned the property.
However, foreclosure proceedings began on the Tinley Park mansion in 2009, and Walker filed for bankruptcy in 2010. He lost the home to foreclosure late last year.
In December, Mack Cos. paid $750,000 to buy the mansion out of foreclosure and began a massive renovation. In particular, Mack had to undertake significant mold remediation in the mansion’s basement, which contained several feet of water. Much of the house was in decent shape, but some light fixtures were missing, said Eric Workman, Mack Cos.’ vice president of sales, who called the mansion, “the premier property in Tinley Park.”
“The mold didn’t scare us. We see mold all the time,” Workman said. “We’re builders, and we looked at this mansion and said, you literally cannot build this house for less than $3 million or $3.5 million. We get excited at that kind of opportunity. I don’t think you will find this much space for half its construction cost. And it was going to take a company like ours to bring this mansion back to what it should be.”
The mansion has nine full baths, two half baths, an indoor swimming pool with a hot tub, two full kitchens with Sub-Zero appliances, a home stereo system with three docking stations, a master suite with a den and his and her custom closets, a 3-D theater and a full outdoor basketball court.
The mansion was listed May 4.
