Former Chicago Bears right guard Nate Davis on Friday sold his five-bedroom, 5,537-square-foot house on a 1.28-acre property in Highland Park for $3.7 million, according to the real estate multiple listing service — some $1.4 million more than the $2.3 million that he paid for it in 2023.
Davis, 28, signed a three-year, $30 million contract with the Bears in March 2023. Injury-prone in his first season, Davis lost his starting role after two seasons last year, and the Bears released him midseason.
Davis paid $2.3 million in May 2023 for the brick house, which was built in 2003 and designed by Evanston architect Michael Hershenson. Set at the end of a winding, wooded drive, the house has five bathrooms, three fireplaces, a kitchen with a butler’s pantry, a family room with built-ins, a large breakfast room, a formal dining room, a custom-designed office with views of the yard and ravine and a family room with windows on three sides overlooking the backyard and ravine.
Other features include the primary bedroom suite, which has a custom laundry room, its own private screened porch, a custom walk-in closet, a soaking tub, heated floors in the bathroom and an oversized custom separate shower and heated floors. The home’s lower level is a full-sized finished basement with 10-foot-high ceilings and custom lighting, along with a bedroom, fitness room, bar/kitchen, game room and storage.
The property adjoins the landmark former Ben Rose auto pavilion, which was made famous in the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
Davis, who updated the home’s first floor and kitchen, first listed the house for $5 million in December in an agents-only private network. He then listed it publicly last month for just under $4 million, and he found a buyer just three days after publicly listing it.
Public records do not yet identify the buyer.
The agent who represented Davis in the sale, Paul Gorney of eXp Realty, could not be reached for comment.
The house had a $62,978 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
