NFL Real Estate Rundown

Any of you football fans are probably near asleep after the emotional afternoon spent perched on the edge of  your couch cushion watching the nail-biting fourth quarter and overtimes from this afternoon.  So I thought it would only be fitting to attempt to take two things I love - the NFL and real estate and put them together with an OC perspective. 

As a Chicago Bears fan let me tell you that if there’s one name that makes me imagine melting a block of cheese in a microwave it’s Brett Favre.  Sure, he’s a great quarterback and I hear he’s a fantastically nice person, and let’s face it, he does a good job of endorsing Sensodyne (apparently big bad football player is afraid of itty bitty ice cream cones!  Thank you Zimbio.com for the fabulous photo).   According to Luxist.com the QB’s ditching his ice cube laiden digs in Green Bay and putting it on the market.  What’s he selling it for?  $475,000 (click link for pics) 

Yep, you read that right. 

Sure it was only his football home, but let’s face it he’ll be paying a much steeper price in New York.   Just what could he get in Mission Viejo for that price?

27794 Inverness - a 2 bed/2 bath / 1,257 Sq Ft condo
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27931 Calle Casal - a 2 b3d / 2 bath /1,257 Sq Ft home in Casta del Sol.  He is old enough to live in the 55+ retirement community right?  Well he’s close enough anyway!

Let’s just say he’s got it better than the East Coast’s most famous pretty face in football - Tom Brady.  Let us all feel pity as he had to reduce the asking price of his home as Luxist continued in their report, “Quarterback Tom Brady has cut the price on his Time Warner Center apartment from $18.29 million to $17.75 million. ”  

There’s nothing nowhere near that in the Laguna Hills or Mission Viejo market.   The closest is the Laguna Hills Castle in Nellie Gail which has been on the market  for over a year and has not reduced the price (and is asking more than the last sale price as well).  This 7 bedroom, 11 bathroom palace is probably much roomier than the Bradster’s “apartment”.

So yes, I have proven that you can fit two wonderful things like football and real estate into the same post.  Enjoy and you know where I will be tomorrow evening - sacked out with my boys and ESPN watching the Browns and the Giants.