Late Jerry Springer’s Evanston Condo Sold For $2M

The estate of legendary TV talk show host Jerry Springer, who died in April, sold his longtime 25th-floor condo in an Evanston high-rise in late June.

Buyers, whose identities were not publicly disclosed, paid $2 million for the three-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot unit in downtown Evanston’s Sherman Plaza condominium complex just north of Chicago, the Tribune reported.

The sale equated to about $666 per square foot to mark a rare high-end condo sale outside Chicago city limits, and was brokered by Robert Picciariello, who described the unit as “barely lived in and everything is brand new.”

Springer, known for his long-running daytime talk show with chair-throwing and heated arguments, based his program in Chicago from 1992 to 2009 before it moved to Connecticut. Despite the show’s relocation, Springer held on to his Chicago-area residence. He purchased the Evanston condo in 2007 for $2.07 million through his company, KT Real Estate Holdings, the newspaper reported, citing public records..

The condo features two and a half bathrooms, a spacious terrace, custom woodworking, a primary bedroom suite with a walk-in closet and a well-equipped kitchen with top-tier appliances.

The condo’s property tax bill was $28,261 in the 2021 tax year, and it comes with an annual homeowners association fee of $18,516.

There haven’t been many condo sales in the northern suburbs to compare to, but in 2018, a unit on the same floor of the same building traded for $2.7 million, setting an Evanston record for largest-ever condo transaction in the suburb.

Super high-end condo sales are usually restricted to within Chicago city limits. For about seven months, Ken Griffin’s Park Tower condo that traded for $11.2 million in January stood as the priciest home sale in Chicagoland this year. Separately, a West Loop record was shattered in April, when a 15th floor unit of the Embry tower went under contract for $7 million.

— Quinn Donoghue