The 24,000-square-foot main house features an outdoor pool with waterfall and pool house. (Photo by Addison Group, courtesy of Century 21 Scheetz)
The 9.4-acre Carmel estate of late Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has sold for $11.75 million, according to a listing from MIBOR Realtor Association.
The estate was listed July 30 for $12 million and a sale was pending five days later. The purchaser has not been identified.
The property bordering Crooked Stick Golf Club, east of the intersection of West 116th Street and Hoover Road, features a 25,843-square-foot main residence with six bedrooms and 12 bathrooms, a 2,700-square-foot guest house with three bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms and a cottage with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, according to the listing posted by Century 21 Scheetz agents Stephen Decatur and Jan Sutton.
Irsay, who led the Colts as owner for nearly 30 years, died May 21 at age 65.
The main house includes two primary suites, seven fireplaces, a six-car garage, a full nanny’s quarters with a kitchen, an indoor pool pavilion, a full-size basketball court featuring a Colts logo at center court, a home theater and speakeasy, an outdoor resort-style pool with a large entertaining space, a tennis court with a viewing pavilion, a Zen garden, a custom children’s play area and a private par-3 golf hole.
During Irsay’s tenure as Colts owner, the team earned 10 division championships, two AFC championships and the club’s fourth world championship with a victory in Super Bowl XLI. In addition to his love of football, Irsay was philanthropist, a musician and a collector of musical instruments as well as artifacts from history, pop culture and music. He also struggled with drug addiction through much of his life, a battle that led to the creation of a charity to promote openness about mental illness and addiction called Kicking the Stigma.
Irsay succeeded his father as Colts owner in early 1997 after Robert Irsay’s death.
The last time an estate of a similar size and prominence went on the market in central Indiana was in January 2022, when the 150-acre property that belonged to the late philanthropist and businesswoman Christel DeHaan was listed for $14 million.
The 41,762-square-foot, seven-bedroom home at 4501 N. Michigan Road sold for $14.5 million in September 2022—announced as the most expensive sale of a residential property in Indiana’s history.
The house is now RH Indianapolis, The Gallery at the DeHaan Estate, an upscale home furnishings store.
A lakefront estate in northern Indiana that was owned by Irsay for more than two decades went up for sale with an asking price of $19.9 million in late August. The six-acre estate is among several residential properties in Indiana that were owned by Irsay to hit the market since his death earlier this year.
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