Gold Coast Mansion Relisted for $21M

A sprawling Gold Coast mansion is back on the market asking $21 million, the priciest active listing in Chicago.

Chicago personal injury attorney Paul Episcope put his 25,000-square-foot property known as Astor Court on the market on Friday, nine months after the listing at 1355 North Astor Street was pulled last year. Episcope also has a new agent, Emily Sachs Wong of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, representing the listing. Natasha Motev of Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty previously had the listing in 2024.

The property includes six residential rental units in addition to the main home, The Real Deal previously reported. The main home has more than 10,000 square feet of living space with six bedrooms and six bathrooms, according to the listing. The full property includes 45 rooms, with 16 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms and 18 fireplaces.

The property has an 80-foot wide facade and sits on a nearly 0.3-acre lot, according to listing information.

Sachs Wong, who led TRD’s 2025 ranking of Chicago’s top agents, said the home’s courtyard is a standout feature. Listing photos show a spacious courtyard with stone walkways and lush landscaping, fountains and a winding staircase leading to the home.

“The coolest part about this house is the large courtyard which feels like it’s straight out of an estate in Europe,” Sachs Wong said.

The rental units are occupied and renting for $4,000 to $8,000 per month, producing more than $30,000 per month in revenue, Sachs Wong said. The listing says the building is “easily reverted back to a single-family home.”

Episcope or his family has owned the Astor Street home since the late 1980s, TRD previously reported. The home was built in 1914 for lumber tycoon William Owen Goodman, and designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw.

The home was first listed for sale in October 2024, also at $21 million. It was taken off the market in July 2025 and stayed off the market until being listed again on Friday.

Inside, listing photos show an ornately decorated home with European-style furniture and gold accents and finishes. An eclectic mix of art covers the walls, including an Egyptian sarcophagus in the entryway.

The home is the most expensive listing in Chicago right now, surpassing a large home on North Dearborn Street asking $18.5 million, according to listing websites. If it sells near the asking price, it would far surpass the record for a single-family home sale in Chicago, which was set in 2024 when a custom mansion in Lincoln Park sold for $15.3 million.

Astor Court joins a few other listings to shoot for more than $20 million in the Chicago region. A 15,000-square-foot lakefront home in Lake Forest asking $25 million has been on and off the market since 2024. In Woodstock, a home on 490 acres with a private manmade lake is asking $27 million. In Winnetka, a “Coming Soon” listing by @properties agent Jena Radnay is priced at $29.9 million.