Sale Of $31M Winnetka Mansion Makes Chicagoland History: Report

WINNETKA, IL — A lakeside Winnetka mansion, dubbed the Windsor House, sold last week for $31.3 million — making it the highest-priced home resale in Chicago-area history.

The French Renaissance Revival-style mansion has seven bedrooms and sits on 2.3 acres of land on Lake Michigan. The home was sold by retired investment banker Muneer Satter and his wife, Kristen Hertel, who spent between $65 million and $72 million to create the estate, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The property contains 223 feet of private beachfront, a boathouse, a commercial-level boardwalk, a custom fountain, a heated motor court for 10 cars, an infinity pool and a pergola.

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The listing agent, Jena Radnay of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, told Elite Street that the sale of the mansion represents an amazing chapter in her career. The mansion's buyer is an opaque land trust with an unidentified beneficiary.

Its first owners, Henry H. Windsor Jr. and his wife, former opera singer Louise Hunter Windsor, built the home in 1928.

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