Former Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith this week took his 13-room Lake Forest mansion off the market. It had been listed for little less than three months at $1.99 million.
It’s not known if Smith, who is head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, just took the house off the market for the holiday season — when homebuying typically slows — or if he is planning to hang on to the home and perhaps rent it out. His listing agent, Katie Hackett of @properties, did not respond to requests for comment.
Smith, 56, was fired by the Bears at the end of 2012 after nine seasons as coach. He sat out the 2013 football season and signed with Tampa Bay in January. The Bears defeated Smith’s Buccaneers 21-13 on Sunday at Soldier Field.
Smith paid $1.62 million in late 2004 for the five-bedroom brick house, which was built in 2002 and has five baths, an eat-in kitchen, a two-story family room with a fireplace; a living room with a fireplace; a cherry library; a sweeping staircase; an attached four-car heated garage and a basement with a wet bar, a rec room, a billiards area, a workout room and a second laundry room.
The house sits on about 1.4 acres.
Coincidentally, Smith’s successor, Marc Trestman, had his Winnetka mansion on the market for almost three months this year at $3.5 million. Trestman pulled that house from the market in June.
