Tom Brady Smokes AFC East Quarterbacks in Luxury Living
His homes are much more luxurious than those of his counterparts in the division.
We’ll find out this weekend whether Michael Vick, now of the New York Jets, can compete in the same league with Tom Brady as the Pats go head-to-head with the Jets.
But when it comes to real estate, the verdict is already in. Brady’s digs blow away anything Vick, or for that matter, any other rival quarterback in the AFC East could dream about living in.
While Brady can unwind after the big game in very luxurious surroundings, many of his fellow NFL quarterbacks get by in modest townhomes and condos that wouldn’t particularly stand out in most neighborhoods.
Brady and supermodel wife Gisele Bündchen this September moved into a sprawling, five-bedroom, 14,000-square-foot mansion in Brookline the couple built. A swimming pool, library, yoga studio, and wine cellar are among the amenities.
The cost of the land alone — $4.5 million — is more than what Vick’s Atlanta mansion cost in his glory days… that is before he did prison time for running a vicious dog-fighting establishment called Bad Newz Kennels.
Brady’s new Brookline mansion surely cost many millions to build, but the $40 million he and Gisele picked up after selling their Brentwood, Calif. mansion to rapper Dr. Dre certainly didn’t hurt.
By comparison, Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill lives in a two-bedroom townhouse along a canal in Fort Lauderdale with his wife Lauren. Tannehill reportedly paid $785,000 in cash for the decidedly unspectacular unit, which comes with an elevator and a slip at a nearby yacht club.
Kyle Orton, the journeyman quarterback of the Buffalo Bills, will take on Brady a week from Sunday in the final game of the season.
But Orton’s biggest real estate splash to date is a snoozer by Boston standards. He once owned a $565,000, two-bedroom, two bath condo in Chicago.
Possibly the only quarterback in the AFC East to come anywhere near the Brady standard in real estate is Vick.
Before the dog fighting scandal, Vick held court in an eight-bedroom, 20,000 square-foot mansion at the Sugarloaf Country Club in Duluth near Atlanta.
Carpets emblazoned with “No. 7’’ – Vick’s jersey number – probably didn’t help when his home was auctioned off in 2009 for $3 million, $700,000 less than what he paid for it, Curbed Atlanta noted at the time.
By contrast, Brady’s real estate sense may be as good as his quarterback rating.
He netted a cool million from the sale of his Back Bay condo in Burrage Mansion in 2008. The ten-room condo, which has three-and-a-half baths and three fireplaces, sold for $5.3 million.
Brady then moved into a penthouse on Beacon Street, having bought the whole building. He had carved out two other units below and put them up for sale, listing one condo at just under $4 million and the other at $4.5 million.
He has also dabbled in Manhattan real estate, netting $3 million from the sale of a $17 million condo in the Time Warner building in 2011.
Brady and Bündchen recently bought back into the New York market, spending $14 million for a pad at the One Madison Park tower.
“He’s done really well,’’ said Rosemary McCready of Coldwell Banker Residential in Weston, who has helped local sports stars find homes.
Talk about an understatement.
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