The Seahawks quarterback could also purchase the top 30% percent of homes by list price in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. See what else Wilson could afford.
Once his record-breaking contract is paid out, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson could hypothetically afford to purchase every home for sale in his West Bellevue neighborhood in cash—with $120 million left over.
Wilson reportedly purchased this estate, located on the shores of Lake Washington in the Seattle suburb, for $6.7 million in 2015. With more than 10,000 square feet, the 7-bedroom, 6.75-bathroom home seems to have plenty of room for Wilson, his wife, Ciara, and their family. But if the family is looking to expand their real estate portfolio now that Wilson is the highest-paid player in NFL history, we have some ideas.
Wilson’s $140 million four-year contract extension, plus a $65 million signing bonus, will add $205 million to his bank account if all goes according to plan. If Wilson used all $205 million to take a very expensive walk down memory lane, he would be able to buy:
The analysis above is based on the assumption that Wilson would hypothetically pay for the homes in all cash.
Methodology
For this report, we used reports of Russell Wilson’s new contract extension, which totals $205 million, to determine how many homes he would hypothetically be able to buy once the contract is paid out. We looked at all of the active listings for condos, townhouses and single-family homes in the cities of Bellevue, Seattle, Renton, Madison, Richmond and Cincinnati. Then, we took the value of Wilson’s contract extension and created a running total of list prices in each of those cities until the $205 million was exhausted. We repeated the process for neighborhoods in each of those cities to come up with percentages for West Bellevue and Pioneer Square.
