Michael Jordan’s $15million Chicago mansion could finally sell at brutal loss after 12-year wait

Michael Jordan has dropped a cryptic hint that he is finally selling his Chicago mansion after a 12-year battle.

The NBA great originally listed the plush property in Highland Park for $29million in 2012 but has been unable to attract a buyer.

Jordan, 61, was forced to lower his asking price to $15m and recently hinted he is set to make a sale.

His stunning property is now listed at $14,855,000 - more than $14m less than the original fee.

If you add the figures together in the listing price you get 23 - the iconic number Jordan wore for the majority of his Hall of Fame career with the Chicago Bulls.

Realtor Katherine Malkin confirmed this week that Point Lake mansion went to contract over the weekend, per CBS News Chicago.

Jordan's stamp is all over the incredible 56,000-square-foot home.

It features a regulation basketball gym, circular infinity pool, putting green, tennis court, and cigar room featuring a humidor and poker tables.

A trophy room once housed six-time NBA champion Jordan's impressive haul, some of the doors come from the original Playboy Mansion, and there is a built-in aquarium.

Jordan built the nine-bedroom palace to his own specifications between 1993 and 1995.

He included 19 bathrooms, five fireplaces, a den, and the kitchen has also been upgraded to a state-of-the-art design with a huge center island.

The front gate features a massive No.23, but a former neighbor insists it was not out of vanity.

"The purpose of it was not to show off that he was Michael Jordan, but so that people wouldn't beat down his fence and his gate, trying to meet him and see him," businessman Lou Weisbach told WBBM Newsradio in 2012.

"They could take photographs in front of his property and prove to people that they were."

Jordan raised sons, Jeffrey and Marcus, and daughter, Jasmine, in the mansion with his ex-wife, Juanita.

They divorced in 2006 and Jordan built a new property in Jack Nicklaus' Bears Club development in Jupiter, Florida.

Last year, a teenager was arrested at the Chicago estate, which now has round-the-clock security.

Personalised homes often struggle to sell, with a long list of celebrity haunts spending long periods on the market.

Baseball icon Derek Jeter's New York-themed mansion, legendary guitarist Slash's L.A. pad with skull decorations, and actor Joe Pesci's Goodfellas-style hangout in New Jersey all fell victim.

But now Jordan's iconic home is finally set to sell - and earn him even more cash.