An interior designer and her husband are seeking among the biggest asking prices in Chicago for their Lincoln Park home, and could fetch a substantial profit if they get it.
The triple-lot home on North Kenmore Avenue is listed for $10.75 million. Built in 1885, the 13,500-square-foot home has ten bedrooms and ten bathrooms.
The home is owned by husband and wife Shea Soucie and Chris Henger, according to Cook County property records. Soucie is co-founder and co-owner of Soucie Horner, a Chicago-based interior design firm. Henger is the Chief Product Officer of UPshow.
The couple purchased the property in 2008 for $3.4 million, and while the listing price reflects a 216 percent increase, it’s also undergone a major renovation in recent years.
Emily Sachs Wong, a broker with @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, and one of the top selling brokers in Chicago, told The Real Deal that while the home is at a high price for the market, it’s priced correctly for the quality of the home.
“To be on a triple lot, with over 10,000 square feet, at the caliber of finishes that we are at, we are not at an abnormal price,” Sachs Wong said. “In Chicago, we just don’t have a lot of houses that trade at these numbers. But we also don’t have a lot of over-the-top houses like this because for $3.5 million you can get a really nice house — even $2.5 million you can get a beautiful house in Lincoln Park.”
The homes that trade at those values, however, have dated finishes and smaller lots and often require renovation, she added.
The amenities on the Kenmore Avenue home include a full lot used as a side yard, in addition to the two lots on which the home sits. The home also has a renovated coach house, which has been connected to the main home by a glass atrium. The coach house includes its own kitchen, three bedrooms and a family room. The home also has an original root cellar that is now a wine cellar and tasting room.
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It’s the third-priciest listing in Lincoln Park, behind only a $30 million listing on Burling Street whose ask this year was reduced from a whopping $45 million, and another triple lot on North Orchard Street asking $12.5 million. The home is also the fourth priciest single-family listing within Chicago city limits.
The $12.5 million ask is for the 11,000-square-foot home at 1956 North Orchard Street, which spans three lots and was originally built in 2001, then the home was updated in 2020. All new windows and doors were also installed in 2022. The home sits on a 75-foot-by-124-foot, three-lot parcel.