A four-bedroom, 4,063-square-foot River North townhome that actor Vince Vaughn owned from 2005 until 2015 sold on Tuesday for $1.725 million.
A native of Buffalo Grove and Lake Forest, Vaughn, 54, hit it big in Hollywood films starting in the mid-1990s, and he made headlines locally in 2005 and 2006 for dating actress Jennifer Aniston. Though Vaughn, who now lives in Southern California, is no longer known to own any homes in the Chicago area, he owned two expensive properties in Chicago in the 2000s and 2010s.
In River North, Vaughn paid $1.4255 million in 2005 to buy the townhome in the 26-unit City Club development from its builder, Silvermoon Properties. The following year, he paid $12 million for the top three levels of the Palmolive building on the Gold Coast.
Vaughn later rented out the River North townhome before selling it in 2015 at a loss, for $1.4 million. He then sold the Palmolive triplex in two pieces in 2016, unloading the top two floors for $8 million and selling the 35th-floor unit for $4.1 million.
Recently renovated, the extra-wide townhome has four bathrooms, an open floor plan, a kitchen with custom cabinetry, an island and Viking, Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances. The townhome also has a balcony off the main level, a living room with a gas fireplace, a primary bedroom suite with a custom walk-in closet and a primary bathroom with a double vanity and a marble steam shower. The top floor has an additional living space with a wet bar and wine refrigerator and opens to a rooftop terrace.
One unusual feature that the town home has: a three-car garage, which opens to a special gated courtyard.
The sellers paid $1.725 million for the townhome in 2020. They first listed it in 2022 for $1.85 million and cut their asking price to $1.75 million later that year. They increased their asking price to $1.8 million early this year before reducing their asking price to $1.75 million and then to $1.725 million before finding a buyer in April.
Listing agent Diana Grinnell did not respond to a request for comment.
Public records do not yet identify the buyers.
The townhome had a $30,766 property tax bill in the 2022 tax year. It also has a $7,944-a-year homeowners association fee.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
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