A seven-bedroom, 5,295-square-foot mansion in Lake Forest that retired Chicago Bears offensive tackle James “Big Cat” Williams lost to foreclosure last year is back on the market and recently has been reduced to $998,500.
Williams played his entire 12-year pro football career with the Bears, retiring in 2003. He paid $1.38 million in 2000 for the Lake Forest house and first listed it in May 2013 for $1.899 million. He later cut his asking price before losing it to foreclosure last year.
Now, VI Holding Group, the investment firm that bought the house out of foreclosure in December for $530,000, has begun pricing it very aggressively, listing it in February for $1.15 million and then cutting the asking price to $1.1 million in March and then to $998,500 earlier this month.
“It’s a beautiful house. It’s very close to downtown Lake Forest, and it’s on almost an acre of land, with woods,” listing agent Iryna Motkalyuk of Stella Premier Realty said. “And the house has big windows and lots of natural light.”
Built in 1993, the two-story house has nine baths, high ceilings, three fireplaces, a first-floor master suite with his and hers walk-in closets and a more than 3,000-square-foot basement with a bar, home theater, exercise room and playroom.
Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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