Get a 3-Bedroom Gold Coast Duplex in No 9 Walton for $4.79 Million: 9 W Walton
This 3-bedroom duplex in No. 9 Walton at 9 W. Walton in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2024 and was recently re-listed.
Built in 2017, No. 9 Walton was the most successful new construction luxury building in over a decade. It has just 66 units and attached valet parking.
It’s a full amenity building which this listing says includes: “24-hour door staff, house car, 2-story fitness facility, indoor pool, sauna and steam, golf simulator, dining room with catering kitchen, bar and terrace. Two guest suites available, plus fabulous indoor/outdoor dog run.”
This unit has 3693 square feet on two levels and lives like a single family home.
It has northern exposures.
The property has custom lighting, designer window treatments, millwork and hardwood floors on both levels.
The main floor includes the living room, dining room, kitchen, a den, family room and half bath.
The bedrooms, and the laundry room, are on the second floor. All three bedrooms are en suite.
The primary suite has a marble spa bath with a soaking tub, walk-in-shower, dual sinks and built-out dressing room.
Back on the first floor, it has a foyer and a fireplace in the living room flanked by custom DeGiulio drybar with wine refrigeration.
The kitchen is open to the dining room and has white O’Brien Harris cabinetry, iceberg quartzite countertops and backsplash, a large island with seating for three, SubZero and Wolf appliances and an attached breakfast room.
One of the big selling points of this building were the large, covered private terraces.
This unit has a 300 square foot terrace with an overhead heater and gas hook-up which overlooks the Gold Coast shops and restaurants.
It has the features buyers look for including central air, its own laundry room, and one valet parking space is included and a second one is available to purchase.
The building is near the shops and restaurants of Oak and Rush Street as well as the Mag Mile and is steps from Washington Square Park. There are several bus lines nearby.
Luxury real estate has been hot in Chicago and the suburbs. Crain’s Chicago Business keeps track of sales over $4 million each year.
You can read all about it from Dennis Rodkin at Crain’s here.
As of June 30, 2025, a record 76 homes have sold over $4 million in the city and suburbs. That is up from just 43 homes last year and is beating the pace of 2022, when 72 homes sold in the first half.
This unit was originally listed in August 2024 for $4.995 million. It has been reduced to $4.79 million.
That is just $179,000 over the 2018 sales price of $4.611 million.
Is this a deal?
Jeffrey Lowe at Compass has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #1702: 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3693 square feet, duplex
- Sold in July 2018 for $4.611 million (per Redfin)
- Originally listed in August 2024 for $4.995 million
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $4.79 million
- Assessments of $3000 a month (includes heat, a/c, gas, parking, doorman, exercise room, pool, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $98,161
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in unit
- Fireplace
- Wine refrigeration
- Bedroom #1: 16×14 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 13×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 14×13 (second floor)
- Den: 15×14 (main floor)
- Foyer: 7×6 (main floor)
- Walk-in-Closet: 15×7 (second floor)
- Family room: 15×14 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 20×15 (main floor)
- Dining room: 18×15 (main floor)
- Laundry room: 17×9 (second floor)
- Terrace: 26×13 (main floor)
Previous Rodkin feature, with info about the sellers.
It’s nice, but as much of a yawner as the Olympia Centre one.
I understand having the sitting room and den both open to the main living space, but I would very much want at least one of them able to be closed off as an office space (and I’d probably prefer *both* able to be closed off).
“Is this a deal?”
It’s now a fairly-priced ask for the market. 1701 languished for a while because they started a bit high, and finally accepted $4.65m
another data point
you put down 4 mil on a Chicago high-rise, you going to lose money. And even if you have 25 mil net worth, it’s $$$
this place is ~ 135k carry a year so more or less the owners spent 1m on carry for the past 7 years.
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Then again, it’s a lot nicer than what ~ 12k / month gets you in terms of rent
“this place is ~ 135k carry a year so more or less the owners spent 1m on carry for the past 7 years.”
You are spending on maintenance on that $4 million single family home too. Yardwork, painting, new roof, security system, landscaping.
All properties are money pits. Lol.
Condos are convenience. You close the door and can go to your Aspen home for the month without a concern.
The north facing units in this building have never been my jam.
It’s nice enough. I’m not a big fan of the complete open concept but at least it’s two levels. It feels a bit bland though. For nearly $5 million, I would expect more pizzazz.
I do love the covered terraces in this building. Very usable and you can fit a table and lounge furniture.
“I do love the covered terraces in this building. Very usable and you can fit a table and lounge furniture.”
It’s certainly what sets a unit like this apart from other more impressive homes available in this price range (and I suppose the location too).
I think a covered outdoor space – big enough for a large dining table and some other seating – should be a requirement for any relatively high priced residence (and they should be incorporated into more homes at other price points as well, albeit not necessarily as nicely integrated with the main structure).
It’s insane that nice houses are still being built or renovated without this feature. My conspiracy theory is that the Patio Umbrella Industrial Complex (and their allies in the A Pergola Will Be Sufficient cartel) must have planted operatives in architecture and design programs some time ago.
I’m now going out to the backyard, where I’ll crank the dining table patio umbrella up (of course it has to be put down overnight or when we’re not at home, lest a strong gust destroy the umbrella and damage the table) and make six trips to the shed to get the cushions on the couch and chairs. All so that the space can be enjoyed for the two or three windows of time today where the sun won’t be too direct and brutal, or until around 3 pm when it pours rain or hails for 1 minute. And this is the daily routine at places like our relatively modest home and at most residences in our neighborhood at triple the value of our house. (Our next door neighbor is a notable exception to this, as their new house (built last year) features a huge covered outdoor space, with the entire bedroom level extending about 14 feet beyond the ground level of the house. Seeing it everyday of course fills me with mildly raging envy, but more so with pity and disgust for people who’ve built or renovated nice houses without a large covered outdoor space.)