NBC 5 weather forecaster sells home
WMAQ-Ch. 5 weather forecaster Andy Avalos and his wife, Anna, sold a three-bedroom town home in south suburban Orland Park in September for $560,000. Avalos, 64, has been with NBC 5 since 1994.
WMAQ-Ch. 5 weather forecaster Andy Avalos and his wife, Anna, sold a threebedroom town home in south suburban Orland Park in September for $560,000.
Avalos, 64, has been with NBC 5 since 1994 and, prior to that, spent 10 years with WLS-Ch. 7 as a weekend weather forecaster.The
couple “had planned on downsizing” to the town home, said listing agent Mike McCatty of Century 21 Affiliated.
But they had a change of plans and decided to stay put in a single-family home nearby. The Avaloses paid $510,000 for the town home in December 2018.
After buying the 2,580-square-foot brick town home, located in the gated Crystal Tree golf community, the couple began renovating it. That included installing new air conditioning, a new furnace, new plumbing, new carpeting, new paint, new bathrooms, new wainscoting and quartz countertops in the kitchen.
Other features included a first-floor primary bedroom suite with walk-in closets, a two-story family room, a living room with a fireplace, a first-floor laundry room and a formal dining room with patio doors to a stone patio.
Ultimately, however, the couple decided to stay in their existing four-bedroom, 3,644-square-foot home in Orland Park,
which they bought in 2001 for $644,000.
“They did a beautiful job on the (town home) renovation and then decided that that location and lifestyle just wasn’t for them just yet,” McCatty said. “They put into (the town home) about what they got out of it. It wasn’t a moneymaker — the intent had been to update it and move into it.”
The town home had a $10,962 property tax bill in 2018.