Take your pick of Atlantic City, Cleveland or Milwaukee.
The winner of this week’s $530 million Mega Millions jackpot, the seventh largest in the game’s history, would take home about $261.4 million after taxes if they choose the lump sum.
To put that amount of money into context, we’ve come up with a list of cities where the Mega Millions winner could hypothetically buy every single home for sale in cash. The following is a select list of cities among the nearly 3,000 the lottery winner would be able to purchase with their winnings.
Back in April, Manuel Franco of West Allis, Wisconsin won $326 million in a Powerball drawing. At that time, we put together a list of some of the cities in his home state Franco would have been able to purchase with his winnings, which also happened to include Green Bay and Milwaukee.
Methodology
For this report, we used reports of the current Mega Millions jackpot, which would total $261.4 million after taxes if the winner chooses the lump sum, to determine how many homes the winner would hypothetically be able to buy once the contract is paid out. We looked at all the active listings for condos, townhouses and single-family homes in cities around the U.S. to determine which cities in which the winner would be able to purchase every single home for sale.
