Bucktown Home Fetches $4.4M, Amid Area’s Priciest Ever Deals

A sleek, 7,600-square-foot Bucktown mansion featured in two Chicago-based TV shows sold for one of the highest prices ever for the trending neighborhood.

The six-bedroom, six-bathroom home on Wolcott Avenue closed for $4.4 million, a slight dip from its asking price of $4.6 million. It had been listed since May and under contract since July.

A filming location website describes the owners, who records show are Richard and Jill Stockard, as film friendly and says the home has been used for filming by the shows “Chicago PD” and “Empire.”

The home attracted major agents on both sides of the deal, with Jeff Lowe of Compass representing the seller and Matt Leutheuser and Tim Salm with Sotheby’s International Realty representing the buyer.

Lowe’s group is at the top of The Real Deal’s first Chicago residential broker ranking, with $381.42 million in yearly sales. Leutheuser and Salm represent some of the city’s most well known listings — including the late Richard Driehaus’ mansion that was used in a scene in John Hughes’ “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” as well as the 25,000-square-foot, $45 million listing for a Lincoln Park property that is not currently active but considered the most expensive home in Chicago.

Neither agent responded to a request for comment.

Last year, a six-bedroom home in the Bucktown neighborhood sold for $3.725 million, the priciest sale in the neighborhood of 2021. That likely makes this $4.4 million home a new all-time record for the area, barring any private, off-market transactions.

Both the property sold last year, at 1622 Wolcott, and the $4.4 million property were developed by Chicago-based Environs, founded by Ken Brinkman.

According to reports published at the time of the sale of 1622 Wolcott, the record price for a home near Bucktown came in 2015, when a new five-bedroom contemporary mansion sold for $4.819 million.