Former Chicago Bears tight end Martellus Bennett sold his glassy Long Grove home for about half the money he had in it.
Bennett and his wife, Siggi Walker-Bennett, sold the four-bedroom, 5,900-square-foot house on a little more than 3 acres for $865,000 on Nov. 22. They bought it for $1.2 million in 2013, according to the Lake County recorder of deeds, and in October 2018 their listing agent said they spent “well over half a million” on upgrades.
The latest listing, by a different agent, said, “The owners have invested 1.7M in creating a visual show piece that you have to see to believe.” If accurate, that would mean last week’s sale price is little more than half what the Bennetts spent on the house.
The listing agent, Austin Hedley of Keller Williams Success Realty, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did the agent for the buyers, Anatoly Spivak of Core Realty & Investments.
The buyers are not yet identified in public records. By the time of the sale, the asking price had come down to a little more than $1 million.
The Bennetts, who bought a $3.2 million house in Los Angeles in June 2018, could not be reached for comment.
The Long Grove house, built in 2006, has a two-story glass wall across one side and contemporary features inside like an open-railing steel staircase and a contemporary fireplace that is merely a void set into a full wall of marble. After buying the house, the Bennetts turned half of the six-car garage into a music studio.
When it first hit the market in October 2018, the house had many bold decorative flourishes, including popsicles, polka dots and greenery painted on the walls, and dozens of plastic balls mounted on a ceiling to make it look like a ball pit in a children’s play area.
Bennett played for the Bears for three seasons, 2013 through 2015. After that he played for the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers. In March 2018 he announced on Twitter that he was retiring from football to move into “the fantastical and wondrous world of creativity.”
Bennett is also the author of a children’s book, “Hey, A.J. it’s Saturday,” published in 2016 by his own firm, the Imagination Agency.
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