Media giant and former
talk-show host Oprah
Winfrey placed her eight-room, 4,607-square-foot Streeterville
co-op unit on the market on Tuesday for $2.8 million, half of what she paid for
the unit in 2006.
The three-bedroom unit never was Winfrey's home. She paid $5.6 million for the sixth-floor unit in 2006, but had a change of heart after buying it, opting to remain in her massive duplex condominium spread in a different building a few blocks away.
From June 2008 until January 2009, Winfrey had the unit on the market for significantly more than she does today, seeking fully $6 million for it. Late last year, Winfrey, who ended her long-running, Chicago-based talk show almost exactly a year ago, had placed the co-op up for rent for $15,000.
Now, Winfrey, who spends much of her time in California and Hawaii, has the unit up for sale. She does not have her massive duplex condo in Streeterville on the market at this time.
The unit that Winfrey is trying to sell is one of 13 apartments in a Beaux-Arts-style building that was built in 1913 and designed by architect Benjamin Marshall. It has three full baths, two half baths, 10-foot ceilings, two fireplaces, an inner foyer, a library, a solarium, a formal dining room, a butler's pantry, a wine room, a custom eat-in kitchen, a 1,241-square-foot master bedroom with his and hers bathrooms and an en-suite guest bedroom.
Listing agent Colette Connelly of Rubloff did not respond to a request for comment.
Winfrey owns several other pieces of residential real estate in the Chicago area, including a house in Elmwood Park that she purchased in 2001 for $298,000 and a house in Merrillville, Ind. Her primary residence is her estate in Montecito, Calif., which she purchased in 2001 for a reported $50 million.
The three-bedroom unit never was Winfrey's home. She paid $5.6 million for the sixth-floor unit in 2006, but had a change of heart after buying it, opting to remain in her massive duplex condominium spread in a different building a few blocks away.
From June 2008 until January 2009, Winfrey had the unit on the market for significantly more than she does today, seeking fully $6 million for it. Late last year, Winfrey, who ended her long-running, Chicago-based talk show almost exactly a year ago, had placed the co-op up for rent for $15,000.
Now, Winfrey, who spends much of her time in California and Hawaii, has the unit up for sale. She does not have her massive duplex condo in Streeterville on the market at this time.
The unit that Winfrey is trying to sell is one of 13 apartments in a Beaux-Arts-style building that was built in 1913 and designed by architect Benjamin Marshall. It has three full baths, two half baths, 10-foot ceilings, two fireplaces, an inner foyer, a library, a solarium, a formal dining room, a butler's pantry, a wine room, a custom eat-in kitchen, a 1,241-square-foot master bedroom with his and hers bathrooms and an en-suite guest bedroom.
Listing agent Colette Connelly of Rubloff did not respond to a request for comment.
Winfrey owns several other pieces of residential real estate in the Chicago area, including a house in Elmwood Park that she purchased in 2001 for $298,000 and a house in Merrillville, Ind. Her primary residence is her estate in Montecito, Calif., which she purchased in 2001 for a reported $50 million.
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