Tua Tagovailoa's House: The Davie, Florida Home He Bought in 2020 and Sold in 2025

The house Tua Tagovailoa bought as a rookie stood in Davie, a Broward County town about 24 miles up the road from Miami. It sat inside Long Lake Ranches, a guard-gated development on the west side of town, on an estate lot that the Broward County Property Appraiser still carries under agricultural zoning. He bought it in July 2020, three months after the Dolphins took him fifth overall. He put it on the market in April 2025 and closed that summer.

The Miami in the old headline was the football team. Davie is a different county.

That is also why a rookie quarterback went looking there in the first place. The Dolphins had trained at the Baptist Health Training Facility on the Nova Southeastern University campus in Davie since July 1, 1993, so by 2020 the town had held the team's working address for 27 years. A player drafted in April who reports to work in July shops near the building, and in the spring of 2020 the building was in Davie.

The precise address is the part we keep behind the ropes. For the parcel, the property breakdown, the neighborhood, and the map pin, see Tua Tagovailoa's Davie home profile on Velvet Ropes.

The year the team left town

The Dolphins broke ground in Miami Gardens on August 21, 2019, on a $135 million complex beside Hard Rock Stadium, a good deal larger than the Davie building and with an indoor field of its own. Tom Garfinkel, the club's chief executive, said at the groundbreaking that the move would put "football and business operations together for the first time in almost 30 years." The team opened it for the 2021 training camp. Tagovailoa had closed on the Davie house the previous July.

So the commute changed under him. For one season the quarterback and his employer were in the same town. For the four seasons after that, the house was in Broward County and the job was in Miami-Dade. Local 10 measured the drive from the development to Hard Rock Stadium at roughly 25 minutes.

The county card calls the lot a farm

The Broward County Property Appraiser's card for the parcel puts the house up in 2004, gives it an effective age of 2010, and places it in the second recorded plat of Long Lake Ranches. Five deeds sit on file across the home's first 21 years, and Tagovailoa's purchase is the fourth of them. The line that stops a reader is the zoning: AG, agricultural.

That is not a filing error. Davie held farm zoning across its western half deliberately, which is how a house behind a guard gate ends up on paper as agricultural land, and why households a few roads over are allowed to keep horses.

The zoning is a leftover from the town's founding argument. Davie was settled in 1909 as Zona, on Everglades bottom that Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward had put up for sale to finance draining it. Robert Parsell Davie, an out-of-state businessman, bought 44 square miles of the reclaimed swamp and cut it into farms, and the settlement took his name. It incorporated as a town on November 16, 1925, and incorporated again on September 19, 1963. Almost everything a visitor notices about Davie now runs back to that decision: the old-west building codes in the Griffin Road district, the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds, the bridle paths, and the 105,691 residents the 2020 census counted in the largest town in Florida.

One correction we owe the original version of this page. The Alabaster, Alabama house that turns up alongside his name belongs to his parents, and Tagovailoa has never owned it.

The ridge next door

Long Lake Ranches backs onto Tree Tops Park and the Westridge Open Space Preserve, and that boundary is the oldest thing about the address. Tree Tops is 243 acres of live oak canopy on an ancient tree island, a dairy farm that had already been platted for a golf community when Broward County bought it for a park in 1980. It sits on Pine Island Ridge, which tops out 29 feet above sea level. In a county where most of the ground lies a few feet over the water table, 29 feet is high ground, which is why people lived up there for more than 5,000 years.

On March 22, 1838, a column of about 500 U.S. troops under Lieutenant Colonel James Bankhead and Major William Lauderdale came up the New River from Fort Lauderdale to take the village on the ridge. It belonged to Abiaka, the Mikasuki leader the Americans called Sam Jones. Warriors firing from the trees held the column long enough for the village to empty, and the soldiers carried off the stores and caught nobody. Seminole families rebuilt on the ridge afterward and were still living there in the 20th century.

None of that is visible from the subdivision. The county protected the ground in 1980, the developer built up to the line, and a quarterback bought a house against the park boundary 40 years after that.

Why he sold

On December 11, 2024, two days after Joe Burrow's house was burglarized while Burrow was playing a game, Tagovailoa told reporters he had hired his own security after one of his cars was broken into on the property. "It was a little too close for my comfort with my family being in the house," he said. He described the arrangement plainly: "When we're on the road, we've got someone with my wife, got someone also at the house, surveying the house." His people were armed, he added, and anyone weighing the trip should think twice. The league had already sent teams a security alert that autumn, after break-ins at the homes of Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, and the FBI had briefed the leagues on organized crews working with surveillance and drones.

The house went on the market in April 2025, and Local 10 tied the decision to those security concerns. The Real Deal reported the sale that July, handled by Jon Mann of Coldwell Banker with Danny Hertzberg of the Jills Zeder Group. Sports Illustrated's All Dolphins read it as a move within South Florida.

What is left of the connection

Miami released Tagovailoa with a post-June 1 designation on March 12, 2026, after six seasons, 78 games, and 76 starts. He signed a one-year minimum contract with the Atlanta Falcons for the 2026 season. The Davie house is therefore former twice over: he sold it in 2025, and the job that put him in that town ended the following spring.

The gate, the lake behind the lot, and the ridge beyond the park are all still there.

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