Naperville Mansion Returns To Market For $10.5M

After more than a year of being shopped, one of Naperville’s priciest home listings of all time hasn’t budged on its ask, even after coming off the market for more than two months and returning.

The Tudor-style brick mansion in one of Chicago’s largest suburbs is back on the market for the same $10.5 million price tag it was originally listed for in January 2021

A listing for the 21,709-square-foot home at 1112 Shamrock Court was removed Aug. 1, then the home was listed again this week for the same price, according to Midwest Real Estate Data information collated by Zillow.

The seven-bedroom, 12-bathroom home was custom built in 2017 and sits on 2.5 acres. It’s owned by a retired couple, the investor Tom Harter and his wife Brenda, who planned to move to Florida after living in Naperville for more than 40 years, according to published reports. Lauren Dayton with Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty is the listing agent on the property.

Jameson Sotheby’s Lauren Dayton (Sotheby’s International)

Lauren Dayton with Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty is the listing agent on the property.

It’s likely among the suburb’s most expensive single-family listings ever. Last fall, a 15,450-square-foot home on Van Buren Avenue near downtown Naperville was listed for just below $15 million. At the time, that was more than double the next-highest county listing of just below $7 million.

In August, DuPage County’s priciest home sales ranged from $2.5 million for a newly-constructed six-bedroom to $4 million for a five-bedroom built in 1922 that last sold for $3.2 million in 2020, with most in the western suburb of Hinsdale.

The Van Buren Avenue listing was removed in May. Both properties spent months on the market despite a surge in high-end buyers in the Chicago area this year.

Midway through the year, 55 homes in Chicago had sold for $4 million or more in 2022, and have since surpassed last year’s record 101 homes that met that threshold. This year’s figure has at least 113 to set a new all-time high.

Still, it’s possible that growing fears of a recession could rattle buyers and sellers, slowing an overheated real estate market. Plus, the single-family homes that command eight-figure prices in the Chicago area are concentrated on the North Shore’s suburbs, much closer to or on Lake Michigan’s shoreline.

Yet one nearby high-end sale at a price well above much of the rest of the area’s luxury market closed earlier this year in an off-market deal in the western suburbs. In Hinsdale, the estate of Frederick Krehbiel, the late electronics company founder and nephew of a former White Sox owner, sold an 11,000-square-foot home for $7.5 million in a May.