KIRKLAND, Wash. — It is an off day from Seattle Seahawks coaching camp in early August, however Tyler Lockett is at paintings.
His place of job in this Wednesday afternoon is not the staff’s observe facility however a four-bedroom, 3½-bath house situated 20 mins up the street. It is new development, freshly staged and nearly able to hit the marketplace.
Lockett is there as a result of his process is to promote it.
Sure, the vast receiver with 60 career touchdowns and greater than $70 million in on-field income is now a real estate agent in his spare time, with a license in two states and a number of other multimillion buck transactions underneath his belt.
Lockett arrives on the Kirkland house proper after stagers end putting in place the furniture and offers a excursion. He begins in the kitchen, the place he notes the trendy white cupboards and imagines aloud what number of bar stools the counter may seat. Subsequent is the completed basement, entire with a wine refrigerator and a kitchenette in the residing subject.
“This will also be no matter it’s that you wish to have it to be,” Lockett says. “It may well be your guy cave. It may well be your lady cave.”
At the most sensible flooring, he touts all of the herbal mild shining via a massive hallway window outdoor of the main bed room. Up at the roof, he presentations off the deck with the west-facing view, which he thinks might be one of the vital area’s greatest promoting issues. It’s going to in the end be indexed for a little underneath $3.3 million.
“We are nonetheless more or less speaking about what that is going to seem like as we proceed to do the CMA [comparative market analysis] in an effort to see what a few of these different properties have long past for,” Lockett says. “The only factor about real estate that I inform other folks is that the consumers are going to decide how a lot the home is [worth]. The consumers are going to decide the marketplace. That is simply the way it is going.”
Casually speaking about CMAs, ceramic tile flooring, soaker tubs and sq. pictures would possibly sound ordinary coming from maximum NFL gamers. However that is Lockett, whose pursuits and skills span way past soccer.
He is a revealed creator, liberating a e book of poems known as “Mirrored image” in 2019, and has carried out his paintings in spoken-word shape. He gained an Emmy award in 2022 for his NFL Community function at the 1921 Black Wall Boulevard bloodbath in his fatherland of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been the Seahawks’ nominee for the Walter Payton NFL Guy of the Yr Award the previous two seasons.
Now, their 31-year-old Renaissance guy is getting a head get started on what he calls his “second career” as he continues to excel at his day process.
Heading into Monday night time’s recreation in opposition to the New York Giants (8:15 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN), Lockett has 13 catches for 103 yards and a pair of touchdowns for the 2-1 Seahawks, together with the successful rating in extra time in opposition to the Detroit Lions in Week 2.
“Only for him in an effort to do this and stability soccer and now not leave out a beat at the soccer area simply speaks volumes of the kind of particular person he’s, the kind of participant he’s,” stated teammate DK Metcalf, who employed Lockett to search out him the house he just lately purchased. “He takes it very critically. That is all he needs to speak about at the aspect when we are not speaking about soccer. I am lovely certain I will get my real estate license with as many conversations as now we have had.
“He is simply at all times having a look to amplify himself, and that is a method of doing it.”
THE SEEDS OF Lockett’s real estate career had been planted after he signed his first extension with the Seahawks in 2018. He began observing HGTV whilst getting ready to shop for his first house, and his pastime was once piqued.
“I simply more or less fell into it,” he stated.
Early in the 2022 offseason, Lockett finished the 90 hours of on-line schooling required for potential real estate agents in Washington state, handed the check in February and changed into approved in March. He later finished any other 180 hours of coursework and that September were given his license in Texas, the place he spends a lot of the offseason. However by means of then Lockett was once already off and operating in Washington at Keller Williams Eastside, with industry playing cards and all.
And industry is booming.
Lockett has been a a part of seven transactions totaling just about $17 million in mixed gross sales quantity, with the Kirkland house nonetheless available on the market and different houses about to be indexed. This previous spring, his staff at Keller Williams, Liv N Serve Real Estate, changed into the reliable realtor of the Seahawks. It is a uncommon — if now not unparalleled — sponsorship deal between a staff and one in all its gamers (the 2 labored with the NFL to make sure the partnership was once in accordance with the league’s wage cap regulations).
Lockett represents homebuyers and dealers, NFL gamers and common people alike. He has additionally ventured into business real estate, running with a purchaser at the acquire of an rental development in Aberdeen, Washington, ultimate 12 months. He is at the verge of checklist any other business assets in Oregon.
“The largest factor with regards to real estate is the relationships, as a result of that is what assists in keeping a consumer on the finish of the day,” Lockett stated. “In each dating, you have to have nice communique, and you have got to have entire and brutal honesty, and occasionally that is the toughest section. … They’ve this concept of, ‘That is what this area goes to be [sold] for and that is all I am keen to just accept.’ And you have to learn how to now not simplest have the ability to communicate them down or communicate them up, however meet them the place they are at and keep in touch with them to a degree the place simplest they might perceive.
“It is more or less like if you find yourself voted captain. You have got in an effort to do this identical factor together with your teammates.”
In some instances, the ones two worlds have met. Lockett, then again, did not get the checklist for Russell Wilson’s lakefront mansion, which hit the marketplace for a cool $28 million after the quarterback was once traded from Seattle to the Denver Broncos ultimate offseason.
“They at all times say do not move into industry with your pals,” Lockett stated with a giggle when requested about now not getting employed by means of Wilson, “so I might slightly stay our friendship how it’s.”
When Lockett does paintings with buddies in the NFL, he prefers to constitute them simplest as consumers. That avoids any money-related awkwardness, as a result of brokers’ commissions — most often 3% to every aspect in the state of Washington — are paid by means of the vendor.
Lockett and a spouse at Keller Williams toured Seattle-area properties with Metcalf over the offseason sooner than they discovered one in the summer time. Metcalf known as it a “nice” enjoy and stated his monetary marketing consultant got here away inspired with Lockett’s professionalism.
“He was once like, ‘Bro, Tyler’s very thorough together with his paintings,'” Metcalf stated. “I used to be like, ‘Yeah, that is Lock, day in and time out.’ So he left a excellent impact on a lot of other folks.”
Along with Metcalf, Lockett helped NFL protection and previous teammate Adrian Colbert to find a house in Texas in the spring. Lockett and one in all his companions at Keller Williams had closed on a apartment in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue the day sooner than he toured the within sight Kirkland house in August.
“That is the most productive section,” he stated, “simply with the ability to see your purchaser with the keys. Or your supplier satisfied that they had been in a position to get a lot of that stuff off their backs.”
HOW DOES LOCKETT juggle real estate and soccer?
“It isn’t onerous,” he stated.
Nevertheless it does require time control and a few teamwork, particularly when he is moonlighting all through the season.
Lockett co-lists some houses — just like the Kirkland house — with any other agent at Keller Williams, Danny Nunes, which splits the paintings (and the fee). Tyler assists in keeping a detailed listing of the place every of his shoppers are at in the purchasing or promoting procedure, which is helping him keep on most sensible of his agenda and paintings forward. As soon as a assets is pending, he can lean on transaction coordinators to lend a hand with bureaucracy and different hurdles sooner than last.
The newly married Lockett estimates that 70% of his day is spent on soccer, whilst real estate takes up any other 15% to twenty%. That would possibly imply knocking out some paintings all through a destroy at staff headquarters.
“All through coaching camp, lunchtime, he is on Zoom calls, he is chilly calling other folks seeking to drum up industry,” Nunes stated. “So it isn’t identical to going to his teammates and serving to them out. … He’s going to be in the locker room after the sport and he will be texting about a deal. I will be like, ‘Take note of soccer.’ However he has time for all of it.”
Lockett is aware of the optics of an NFL participant devoting time to one thing rather than the sport would possibly now not sit down neatly with some, however he has by no means been the stick-to-football kind.
“The toughest section about with the ability to get started your second career is everyone is at all times conserving you to that one career,” he stated. “And since there is such a lot of issues that come … with this recreation of soccer, other folks at all times say you simplest wish to center of attention in this, in case you are now not doing excellent this is because you might be doing all this different form of stuff. However now we have goals, too, and now we have issues that we wish to accomplish … now not just for ourselves however our households and our long run households as neatly.”
Status at the roof of the Kirkland house, Lockett made it transparent that whilst he is surroundings himself up for lifestyles after soccer, he is not at the verge of retirement. Why would he be? After this season, he will have two years and more or less $34 million last at the $69 million extension he signed in 2021.
And he is nonetheless on the most sensible of his recreation. Lockett has reached 1,000 yards in every of the previous 4 seasons after arising simply shy of that mark (965) in 2018. His 47 receiving touchdowns since then are tied for 5th maximum in the NFL. He is last in on turning into the franchise’s second-leading receiver at the back of Steve Largent in each catches and receiving yards.
“For a real estate agent, I believe he is doing a nice process at enjoying vast receiver,” quarterback Geno Smith quipped overdue ultimate season.
That is the type of reputation Lockett is after.
“You need to combat via such a lot simply in an effort to display other folks you might be greater than a soccer participant,” he stated. “Going into this 12 months, I have already been nearly a 12 months in, and now other folks see me as extra than simply a soccer participant. They see me now not as someone seeking to see what it is love to be a realtor, however they see me in truth as a realtor now.”