Cam Newton's House: Two Condos in a 1967 Bank Tower in Uptown Charlotte

Cam Newton's house in Charlotte is a condominium, and he holds it through a family company: a unit on an upper floor of a seven-story savings and loan headquarters in uptown, the city's downtown, finished in 1967. The company bought it in April 2012, the year after the Carolina Panthers made him the first pick in the NFL draft, and Mecklenburg County's tax roll still names that company as the owner in 2026.

He bought a second unit in the same building in 2015. That is the one he tried to sell in 2020, rented to the Charlotte Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball, and finally sold to Ball's company in May 2024. Our 2021 version of this page folded the two into one condo. They are separate homes with separate deeds, and this page keeps them apart.

Newton's playing days are behind him. His last NFL season was 2021, back with the Panthers, and in August 2025 ESPN signed him to a multiyear deal for a bigger role on its morning show First Take. None of the sources we read says where he spends his nights now. The condo his company still holds is the one we profile.

A savings and loan builds a headquarters

The building began with a shopkeeper's sideline. Samuel Wittkowsky, a Prussian-born Jewish immigrant who ran a general merchandise store in Charlotte, founded a building and loan association in 1883, according to the county's Historic Landmarks Commission. A building and loan pooled local savings to lend to people buying houses, and at first Wittkowsky's made home mortgages and nothing else. It took a federal charter and a new name in 1943.

In 1955 the association moved into an old hotel on this lot, and in the mid-1960s it tore the hotel down. Freeman-White Associates drew the seven-story headquarters that replaced it, and Juno Construction finished it in 1967, the National Park Service's record says.

It did not look like its neighbors. Charlotte's postwar office towers were mostly rectangular boxes of steel and glass. This one went up in bare, rough-finished concrete, with sunshades and balconies jutting from its face and a planned connection to the landscape around it, and the landmarks commission singles out its Japanese-inspired design as unusual for downtown Charlotte. The Park Service files it under the International Style, the plain, geometric modernism that came out of Europe in the 1920s and shaped American office buildings after the war. The commission calls it a rare surviving example of a mid-sized modernist office building from those decades in the center city.

From bank offices to homes

First Charter Bank of Charlotte bought the savings and loan in the late 1990s and moved the offices out, the commission says. The city named the building a local historic landmark in 2002, NC Rabbit Hole reports, over the objections of council members who thought a building of 35 years was too young for the honor. In January 2008 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, the federal list of buildings judged worth preserving. That same year the developer Jim Donnelley finished turning the old headquarters into condominiums on the upper floors, and gave the building a new name. He had said in 2006 that none of the homes would be priced at the low end, as NC Rabbit Hole recounts.

The unit Newton's company still owns

Newton's first purchase closed on April 10, 2012, when Agape Property Management Group LLC paid $1.6 million for a unit on one of the upper floors, according to the sale and deed reference on the county's tax roll. NC Rabbit Hole describes Agape as a company formed by Newton's father, Cecil, and the Charlotte Observer calls it Newton's company. On the 2026 roll Agape is still the owner, and no later sale of that unit has been recorded.

He tried to sell it once. The Observer reported in 2024 that Newton had asked $3.2 million for this unit in 2019. The roll shows it stayed with Agape.

The second unit, and LaMelo Ball

In 2015 Newton bought a second condo in the building for $2.1 million, according to the Observer, and NC Rabbit Hole gives the same year. In June 2020, WSOC-TV reported that it was going up for sale at $2.9 million. It did not sell. Ball, who had joined the Hornets as the No. 3 pick in the 2020 NBA draft, began renting it that year, according to both the Observer and NC Rabbit Hole.

The lease ended in a sale. On May 15, 2024, MB1 Enterprises LLC, which the Observer identifies as Ball's company, bought the unit from Agape for $2.47 million, and the county roll records the same date, price and buyer.