Michael Jordan: He has been desperately looking for a buyer for this swanky villa for ten years

Who doesn’t want to live in a mansion that once belonged to one of the greatest athletes of all time? Basketball king Michael Jordan has been asking himself this question for more than ten years. As long as he is already trying to get rid of his gigantic mansion in his native Chicago. And even halving the price has not been successful so far.

She really has a lot to offer. Spread over 500 square meters, the magnificent villa has 18 rooms, nine of which are bedrooms. Five open fireplaces are distributed throughout the house. There are also several salons, a poker room and a billiard room, a lavish kitchen and a fully equipped gym. And – how could it be otherwise with the greatest basketball legend of all time – a full basketball court according to league standards. There is also a guest house with three more bedrooms and a garage with 14 parking spaces.

There is no buyer

Jordan planned the building from scratch in 1991 and had it completed within four years exactly according to his ideas. It is a small monument to himself: Everywhere there are large, hard-to-overlook souvenirs of his career, his legendary jersey number 23 is emblazoned on the entrance gate, the basketball court bears his name and the logo of his shoe series in large letters several times.

But the property in the small town of Highland Park just north of Jordan’s hometown of Chicago just won’t find a buyer. Especially not for the price that Jordan had actually expected: the 28,000-square-foot property was supposed to cost $29 million when it first attempted to sell it in 2012. A year later, the rice had already fallen to $21 million, then a few months later to $16 million. The current price has been standing since 2015: Jordan does not seem to want to sell for less than 14,855,000 US dollars. Even if simply no buyer wants to be found.

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