Retired WMAQ-Ch. 5 news anchor Rob Stafford and his wife, Lisa, in May sold their condominium on the top floor of a recently built, six-story building in the West Loop neighborhood for $1.3475 million.
Stafford, 65, was NBC 5’s weekday evening news co-anchor from 2009 until retiring in 2022. A veteran of WBBM-Ch. 2 and NBC News’ Chicago bureau, Stafford joined NBC 5 in 2007 as a weekend news anchor.
Rob and Lisa Stafford had been longtime Hinsdale residents before they paid $1.095 million in 2017 for their West Loop condo, which was in a newly constructed, 70-unit building.
Now, the couple have sold the West Loop condo. The reason, Rob Stafford told Elite Street, is that the couple is keeping their options open for family-related reasons.
“I’m retired now. We sold and rented nearby in the West Loop as we wait to see where our adult children end up,” he told Elite Street. “Right now, two of them are still nearby in the city.”
The unit was sold in an off-market deal, so few details about it were available. However, the couple’s sale price — a 23% return over less than seven years — illustrates the general strength in the West Loop condo market relative to the downtown condo market, although Elite Street wasn’t able to determine what upgrades the couple made to the condo that could have contributed to the higher sale price.
The building was developed by Belgravia Group. The condo had a $24,000 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.