A six-bedroom Federal-style brick mansion in Hinsdale that reality TV personality and frequent home rehabber Bill Rancic and his wife, Giuliana, famously once owned sold on Wednesday for $3.575 million. A six-bedroom Federal-style red brick mansion in Hinsdale that reality TV personality and frequent home rehabber Bill Rancic and his wife, Giuliana, famously once owned sold again on Wednesday for $3.57 million.
The three-story mansion was featured prominently in a season of the onetime Style Network reality show “Giuliana and Bill,” which depicted the couple spending considerable time renovating the home.
Through an Illinois limited liability company, the Rancics bought the 11,086-square-foot mansion unfinished in May 2010 for $1.56 million and set about renovating it. They then sold it in 2011 for $4.6 million to a couple who turned around and sold it a little less than two years later for $3.65 million — taking almost a $1 million loss in the process.
Now, the couple that paid $3.65 million for the mansion in 2013 has also taken a loss on the mansion. They listed the mansion for $3.99 million in June and never budged on their asking price.
The mansion has six full bathrooms, two half bathrooms, four fireplaces, a library, a pub, an elevator, a family room with a coffered ceiling and a fireplace with marble surround, and a kitchen with marble countertops, custom cabinets and Sub-Zero, Wolf and Miele appliances. The mansion’s lower level has a theater room, wine cellar, second kitchen, exercise room and office, while the 0.54-acre property has two pergolas, a new basketball court, an outdoor kitchen with a barbecue and a fire pit.
Dawn McKenna, who represented both the sellers and the buyers, declined to comment on the transaction.
The Rancics often buy, renovate and sell properties. Most recently, they sold a five-bedroom, 4,286-square-foot house in Harrison, Idaho, which is near Coeur d’Alene, for $5.6 million in October, and they sold a five-bedroom, 8,323-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area in October 2020 for $10.65 million after having bought it less than two years earlier for $7.67 million.
In Chicago, the couple’s most recent rehab was a five-bedroom, 8,098-square-foot vintage mansion on the Gold Coast, which they purchased in 2013 for $2.125 million and sold in 2019 to power couple Zoraida Sambolin and Kenny Williams for $4.8 million.
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