The final Chicago-area home that former Bulls Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen once owned — a five-bedroom, 10,000-square-footer in Highland Park complete with an indoor basketball court — sold on Nov. 1 for $2.28 million, which was an amount barely higher than what Pippen and then-wife Lara had paid for it in 2004.
During his time both with and after he starred for the Bulls, Pippen owned a pair of mansions in Highland Park as well as a condo on Lake Shore Drive on the Gold Coast. He owned his first mansion in Highland Park, an eight-bedroom, 8,228-square-foot mansion on Shady Lane, from the time he custom-built it in the 1990s until selling it in 1996 for $1.75 million. It most recently sold in early 2023 for $1.53 million.
In 2004 — shortly before his second tour of duty with the Bulls came to an end — Pippen and then-wife Lara paid $2.225 million for the 10,000-square-foot mansion in Highland Park on Old Mill Road that currently is for sale. He sold it in 2021 for $1.8 million to the family just sold it.
The sellers first listed the home in December 2023 for just under $2.7 million, and then raised their asking price to $2.9 million in March. They then cut their asking price to $2.7 million in June, and finally to $2.65 million in August.
Built in 2003 and set on 2.7 acres, the Old Mill Road mansion has 5-1/2 bathrooms, two separate primary bedroom suites, two stairways to the second floor, laundry rooms on both the first and second floors, an updated kitchen and a walkout lower level with an eight-seat movie theater, a wine cellar, a rec room, a playroom and an exercise room.
Outside on the property are an infinity pool, a spa, a waterfall, a waterslide and a large patio.
Probably the most unique feature in the mansion has been its indoor gym, which has a basketball half-court. When Pippen owned the home, the gym contained a large rendering of Pippen’s Bulls uniform on the floor. The rendering later was removed.
Listing agent Ting Ting Zheng of Century 21 Realty Associates told Elite Street that the sellers she represented made substantial upgrades to the house.
“When (the sellers) purchased it, they fell in love with it, and were planning to live in it,” Zheng said. “But unfortunately, things changed after the pandemic. They’ve moved around a lot — they have homes all around.”
The mansion had a $62,909 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
