The Ja Morant house story is not one mansion but a small family compound in Eads, Tennessee, about 25 to 30 miles east of Memphis. Property records reported by the Memphis Business Journal show that Morant bought a roughly 9,000-square-foot house there in August 2019 for $1.334 million, then bought the much larger estate next door in August 2022 for $3.05 million — and moved his parents and sister into the first house. This updated article sticks to that documented record: the two Eads houses, a Miami purchase in December 2025, and the reported sale of his own Eads estate in 2026, after his trade to Portland.
A large French country style estate home in Eads, Tennessee, similar in character to the documented 2022 purchase beside his parents’ home. (Illustrative image)
From Dalzell to the NBA’s Bright Lights
Temetrius Jamel “Ja” Morant was born on August 10, 1999, in Dalzell, South Carolina, where his father Tee — a former high-school teammate of Ray Allen who went on to play at Claflin University — built a concrete court in the backyard and trained him on it. Morant was lightly recruited out of high school, landed at Murray State, and became a consensus first-team All-American before the Memphis Grizzlies drafted Ja Morant second overall in 2019.
He was named NBA Rookie of the Year in 2020 and Most Improved Player in 2022, made the All-Star team in 2022 and 2023, and signed a five-year maximum contract extension in July 2022 reported at $193 million guaranteed, potentially rising to $231 million. His Memphis years also included two league suspensions in 2023 and season-ending shoulder surgery in January 2024. In June 2026, Memphis traded him to the Portland Trail Blazers, ending the seven-season run that the Eads houses belonged to.
The First Ja Morant house: The 2019 Eads Purchase
Six weeks after the draft, in August 2019, the Mountain Brook Cove Land Trust connected to Morant recorded the purchase of the first Ja Morant house for $1.334 million, according to property records reported by the Memphis Business Journal. The house is a red-brick, English-style manor of roughly 9,000 square feet with six bedrooms, built in 2005, on a lot reported at about seven acres, with a hearth room, a game room, a media room and a resort-style pool.
At the time it was simply the rookie’s Memphis-area base, in a gated corner of Shelby County east of the city. Its more famous role came three years later, when it became the family house. Morant’s parents, Tee and Jamie, and his younger sister, Teniya, had moved to Memphis with him in 2019 after the draft, and in 2022 they moved into this house — because of what he bought next door.
Rolling lawns and mature trees across a large estate lot in Shelby County, Tennessee. (Illustrative image)
Buying Next Door: The $3.05 Million Estate in 2022
At the end of August 2022, the same trust bought the estate next door for $3.05 million, a figure the Memphis Business Journal took from the Shelby County Register of Deeds. The seller was Kyle Anderson, Morant’s former Grizzlies teammate; earlier owners of the house included the late Lorenzen Wright and Monta Ellis. The second Ja Morant house is a French country style custom estate built in 2008, listed at 13,836 square feet with seven bedrooms, on about 6.5 gated acres overlooking a lake.
Realtor.com‘s report of the listing counted seven full bathrooms and four half-baths, while the Business Journal’s account said three half-baths, so the exact half-bath total is one detail the sources do not agree on. Features both reports support include a pool and a basketball court, along with multiple fireplaces, a library, a den, a separate in-law suite and a main-level primary suite. Morant announced the arrangement himself in an August 2022 video, panning from his new house across to his father’s: “Hey pops, we neighbors now!”
The result was a genuine family compound rather than a single celebrity mansion: two trust-owned estates on adjoining lots, one for Morant and one for the parents and sister who had followed him from South Carolina. Local reporting put the two front doors only steps apart, across the street from each other in the same gated neighbourhood, which is why the 2019 purchase is now usually described as the parents’ house.
| Purchase | When | Price | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Eads house | August 2019 | $1.334 million (property records) | Roughly 9,000 sq ft brick manor on about 7 acres; later became his parents’ home |
| Second Eads estate | August 2022 | $3.05 million (Register of Deeds figure) | 13,836 sq ft French country estate next door, bought from Kyle Anderson |
| Miami house | December 2025 | $3.2 million (county records) | Five-bedroom Buena Vista home; re-listed in May 2026 at a $3.35 million asking price |
A bright, spacious living room in a luxury Tennessee home. (Illustrative image)
A Third House: The Miami Purchase
A third Ja Morant house surfaced in Florida. The Commercial Appeal, citing Miami-Dade County property records, reported that on December 23, 2025, a trust listing Morant as an executor bought a home in Miami’s Buena Vista neighbourhood for $3.2 million. Realtor.com described it as a five-bedroom, five-bathroom house of just under 3,500 square feet with a pool, behind gates — considerably smaller than the two Eads mansions, and a short drive from the Miami Heat’s arena.
The Miami chapter was brief. Realtor.com reported that the house was put back on the market on May 18, 2026, with an asking price of $3.35 million. An asking price is not a sale price, and no completed sale at that figure is documented in the reporting used for this article.
Listing and Selling the Eads Estate in 2026
In January 2026, The Commercial Appeal reported that Shelby County records still showed Morant owning both Eads houses through his trust. On April 3, 2026, his own 2022 estate was listed for sale at $3.5 million with Kelley Williams Realty; the listing description highlighted a movie theater, a salon room and game rooms among its features. Local station WMC Action News 5 later reported that the asking price had been reduced to $3.4 million while the house sat on the market.
In August 2026, WMC reported that the house had sold for $3.2 million. That figure is a reported sale price from local reporting, rather than a deed figure published in the sources used here, and it is stated that way deliberately. The timing fits the career change: Morant had been traded to Portland at the end of June 2026. Whether the 2019 house, where his parents live, will also be sold has not been reported.
A backyard pool and patio at a luxury home in a leafy Tennessee suburb. (Illustrative image)
What the Record Does Not Show
Search for the Ja Morant house online and you will find detailed “tours” describing a regulation-size indoor court, a cryotherapy room, a wine cellar and a 15-car garage. None of those specifics appears in the deed reporting, the Realtor.com coverage or the local Memphis reporting used here, and this article does not repeat them. The documented court in Morant’s life is a humbler one: the concrete backyard court his father built in Dalzell, which Nike and Hibbett refurbished into a full court during a hometown weekend in September 2026.
The same caution applies to a claim circulating on low-quality sites that Morant bought a $14 million luxury villa in Dalzell. No property record or reputable report supports it; the Dalzell house in the record is the modest family home the Morants left behind in 2019. Celebrity Net Worth estimates Morant’s net worth at $50 million, but that is a third-party estimate calculated from public sources, not a disclosed figure.
The Bottom Line
The documented Ja Morant house story is better than the invented one: a rookie who bought a brick manor outside Memphis in 2019, bought the bigger estate next door three years later, and made his parents his neighbours. Readers comparing NBA homes can also see the Luka Doncic house in Dallas, the Kevin Durant house in Hidden Hills, and the Joel Embiid house in Philadelphia — each, like this one, best understood through what is actually documented.