WILMETTE, IL — The Wilmette house broadcasters Bob Sirott and Marianne Murciano lost in foreclosure earlier this year sold this week at a court-ordered auction.
The closing price of $1.08 million was just under what the property sold for in 1999, according to property records. Adjusted for inflation, the sale price declined by more than a third over the past 21 years.
Built in 1931, the six-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot brick home sits on a 0.4-acre lot near Marie Murphy Junior High School and Avoca Park in the Gross Point neighborhood.
The French Provincial-style house features a spacious foyer with a custom iron railing, a library, separate study and a first-floor bedroom and hardwood floors throughout, according to its listing.
The house also includes a formal living room with a fireplace, Corinthian columns and French doors leading to a rear patio.
Its master suite has dual walk-in closets, a sitting area, fireplace and "luxurious" five-piece bath, according to its listing.
Since it was first built nearly 90 years ago, the house had been expanded to include a fully finished basement with another bedroom, a media room and a mirrored recreation room. Outside, the property includes a bluestone patio, fire pit and outdoor kitchen area.
The house was last purchased for $1.1 million in June 1999 by an anonymous trust formed the month earlier. Also in June 1999, Sirott and Murciano got married, after Sirott finalized his divorce from a television journalist and producer. And the following year, Sirott and Murciano listed another Wilmette home that Murciano had owned with her ex-husband, a cameraman at WLFD-TV.
Property records show Sirott, Murciano and the trust refinanced the Romona Road house several times over the next decade, most recently in 2007 with a $1.55 million mortgage that had an adjustable rate after the first five years. They also received a $163,900 promissory note from the U.S. Small Business Administration in September 2008.
In January 2018, Deutsche Bank and GSAA Home Equity Trust began foreclosure proceedings against Sirott and Murciano for the house.
Two months later, Sirott and Murciano listed the property for sale with a $1.8 million asking price.
In February 2019, Cook County Circuit Judge Cecilia Horan issued a judgement of foreclosure and ordered the house sold. Deutsche Bank formally took over the deed to the former Sirott house in February before it went up for auction in October.
The as-is sale closed for $1,080,450 Tuesday after an online auction that had a minimum bid of $1 million.
About $50,000 of that price was the 5 percent buyer's premium, according to listing agent Tony Disano, who said the property received multiple bids before the auction closed.
Sirott and Murciano did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.
Sirott, 71, has been a fixture on the Chicago airwaves for nearly 50 years. He has anchored at WMAQ-TV, WTTW-TV and WFLD-TV, where he and Marciano met as co-anchors in the mid-1990s. He has hosted WGN-AM's morning radio show since January.
Murciano, 63, was a reporter at Miami television stations WCIX, WSVN and WTVJ before coming to Chicago and joining the local Fox affiliate with Sirott. In recent years, she launched lifestyle brand called Savvy Planet, and her first book is due out next year.
The 2018 foreclosure and Wednesday's $1.08 million sale were first reported by Crain's Chicago Business.
According to the Cook County Assessor's Office, the property's estimated market value for taxing purposes is $1.51 million. Its property tax bill was $36,000 last year.
- Address: 1034 Romona Road, Wilmette, Illinois
- Built: 1931
- Lot Size: 0.4 acres
- Square Feet: 5,042
- Bedrooms: 6
- Bathrooms: 5 full, 1 half
- Last Sold: $1.55 million (with furnishings)
- First Listed: $1.8 million in March 2018
- Closing Price: $1.08 million on Dec. 16
Listing information originally appeared on realtor.com. For more information and photos, click here.
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