Michael Jordan’s mother, Deloris Jordan, is selling the family’s four-bedroom, more than 6,000-square-foot house in suburban Phoenix for $3 million.
Deloris Jordan bought the house in 1995 for $1,078,600. It is on a secluded 1-acre lot in Paradise Valley, Ariz., and has been a retreat during vacations and holidays for the entire Jordan clan. Features include a combination basketball/tennis court, lagoon swimming pool with waterfall, and mountain and city views. She’s selling the house because Michael Jordan has returned to playing basketball and because she is increasingly busy with writing a book and with foundation work, according to a release from agent Katie King of Realty Executives in Scottsdale.
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“The home has brought years of happiness and countless treasured moments for our family,” Deloris Jordan said in the release.
Michael Jordan isn’t the only Chicago sports figure to have occupied a house in Paradise Valley. His own former boss, Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, has had a winter home there for many years, while golfer Hale Irwin bought a house there in 1996 for $1.385 million, according to public records.
And former White Sox general manager Ron Schueler, who stepped down in October 2000 after 10 years in that position, paid $1.45 million earlier this year for a house in Paradise Valley, according to public records and news accounts.
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Schueler, now a special consultant and scout for the White Sox who recently was reported to have expressed interest in returning to baseball, also sold his 12-room house in the Victoria Place area of southwest suburban Orland Park in July for $364,000, according to public records. The home was custom-built for Schueler in the early 1990s and had been listed for $374,900.
– One of the Chicago Bulls’ most exciting young players, power forward Marcus Fizer, has paid $610,000 for a brick ranch in Northbrook. Fizer’s 10-room, Mediterranean-style ranch, in the north suburb’s Stonehedge neighborhood, was built in 1979 and was listed for $624,900. Features include a skylit foyer; living room with a cathedral ceiling; pool, stone fireplace, circular driveway and a brick courtyard entry, according to listing information.
The $2.75 million-a-year Fizer, whom the team drafted last year out of Iowa State University, is the latest of the newer Bulls to buy property in the Chicago area. Teammate Dalibor Bagaric paid $675,000 earlier this year for a house in the Bristol Place neighborhood in Deerfield, while teammate Ron Mercer paid $1.1 million late last year for a house in Highland Park, according to public records.
– Former Chicago School Board President Gery Chico has paid $879,000 for an approximately 5,000-square-foot house in the University Village neighborhood on Chicago’s Near West Side.
Chico, who heads the law firm Altheimer & Gray and is a former chief of staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley, abruptly quit in May after six years as board president.
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Chico bought the 12-room, three-story home new from developer John Walsh, said listing agent Dee Terry of Koenig & Strey’s Lincoln Park office. The five-bedroom house has a media room, three-car garage, enclosed yard, bluestone patio and outdoor wood-burning fireplace on the wall of the garage.
Chico previously had been living in the West Loop, she said.
– National items: Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky and his wife, actress Janet Jones, are building a Georgian-style, 12,000-square-foot home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., that would have an estimated value, without the land, of $4 million, according to the Los Angeles Times … Madonna’s 2,739-square-foot girlhood home in Rochester Hills, Mich., has sold in a traditional real estate auction to an Ohio-based real estate group for $331,000, according to the Detroit News. The owner, a real estate agent, bought the house, outside of Detroit, in July from Madonna’s father for $269,000 but was thwarted by insincere bids in his effort to auction the home online. The new buyer hopes to resell the property, according to the paper.
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