Following his 2022 trade from the Carolina Panthers to the San Francisco 49ers, NFL player Christian McCaffrey is selling the last of his real estate holdings in North Carolina.

The running back is putting his French château-style mansion on neighboring Lake Norman up for $12.5 million, having sold his Charlotte condo for $3 million late last year.

According to listing agent Victoria Speer of the Agency Charlotte, the gated Lake Norman property is approximately nine acres in size and features two gyms along with 500 feet of lake frontage.

“It was such a difficult decision to have to sell this house,” McCaffrey said in an email, “but because I play in the Bay now, I am never there.” The condo and lake house were his only North Carolina properties, he added. “It pains me letting them go, but that’s life I guess.”

In 2017, the Panthers drafted McCaffrey, who is 27 years old. According to Speer, he broke the sales record for the Charlotte metro area when he paid $7.5 million for the Lake Norman mansion in 2020. According to her, a $7.67 million transaction on the lake in 2023 shattered the record, but if McCaffrey’s property sells for at least its asking price, it might regain the title.

The property includes a roughly 12,000-square-foot, six-bedroom main home and a one-bedroom guesthouse, which is connected to the main house by a porte-cochere, Speer said. Built in 2019, the estate overlooks the lake.

 

 

McCaffrey claimed that although he had originally intended to use the property as a refuge during the off-season, he soon fell in love with it and made it his permanent home.

“The backyard was my favorite place,” he said. “To go out in the morning and look over the lake with a warm coffee was the best way to wake up.”

According to Speer, McCaffrey converted a three-car garage beneath the guesthouse into a second, larger gym that was equipped with the exercise equipment he needed for season-long training, even though the main house already had a gym in its basement. new buyer desires it, the equipment can be worked into the sale of the house, she added.

 

The house also has a sauna, an elevator, a stone wine cellar, wood-paneled library, and a barroom that leads to the pool area. The main suite features a screened-in balcony and a two-story closet. The great room features a double-sided fireplace, the kitchen features a custom-made La Cornue Château series range, and the entrance boasts a 60-foot turreted ceiling. There is also a vault-doored secret panic room on the site.

Among McCaffrey’s favorite amenities is the movie theater. “Movie nights were always some of the best nights at the house,” he said.

A second-floor outdoor kitchen, a fire pit, a barbecue area, and a saltwater pool with a spa are all located on the property. McCaffrey maintains his boat on a dock on the lake, accessible by a constructed pathway. The boat, which he named Olivia after his fiancée, the former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, will be part of the sale price, along with a jet ski, a golf cart, and a Wildcat four-wheeler, according to Speer.

 

 

 

“Being able to come home after a day out on the water to the smell of the grill, music playing, and family and friends hanging out, swimming, roasting s’mores, and playing lawn games will be some of my best memories forever,” McCaffrey said.

Colorado native McCaffrey attended Stanford University before the Panthers selected him in the draft. He helped San Francisco advance to this weekend’s NFC Championship Game against the Detroit Lions by scoring two touchdowns on Saturday against the Green Bay Packers. McCaffrey will get a chance to win his first Super Bowl if San Francisco prevails.

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