Angel Reese Buys Her First Home at 22, Three Months After Paying Off Her Mother’s Mortgage: ‘So Blessed’

The WNBA star scores again!

Angel Reese is scoring big both on and off the court.

On Tuesday, April 15, the 22-year-old Chicago Sky basketball player announced that she is officially a homeowner.

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Next to green check emojis, she wrote “Retired my momma” and “Became a homeowner” over a photo of herself smiling as she stood in a kitchen holding a large cutout of a house key.

“All at 22,” she wrote, adding, “So blessed.”

In the bottom right side of the photo, Reese wrote, “Knocked off 2 BIG things off my vision board in the first 4 months of the new year!”

The pro athlete received a ton of congratulatory messages across her social media platforms.

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On X, she seemingly responded to critics who previously questioned her past decisions by reposting her accomplishments from a fan page and adding a couple of messages of her own.

“They said ‘she need to cover up’ so i went cover on VOGUE,” she wrote.

Her message was seemingly in response to naysayers weighing in on her “inappropriate” outfit choices.

Angel Reese, August 2024.Michael Hickey/Getty

Reese added, “they said ‘she can’t afford her rent’ so i went & bought a house.”

The WNBA star found herself at the center of a debate in October 2024 after she shared that her reported $73,439 salary from the sports organization was not enough to cover her living expenses.

“I just hope y’all know, the WNBA don’t pay my bills at all,” Reese told her followers on X. “I don’t even think it pays one of my bills, literally.”

“I’m living beyond my means!” she joked about her $8,000 a month rent.

Angel Reese and her mother Angel Webb Reese at the 2023 ESPYS on July 12, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA.John Salangsang/Shutterstock

Following more criticism about her salary versus her spending habits that same month, Reese shared a tweet that read, “Do y’all not see the collaborations and endorsements Angel has? I’m sure she doesn’t see that 8k leave her account.”

“Sister these folks don’t use common sense at all….,” Reese wrote in response.

The basketball star and social media sensation has deals with Reebok, Hershey’s Reese’s Pieces, Beats by Dr. Dre and Good American. She also hosts her own podcast, Unapologetically Angel.

In January 2025, Reese celebrated her mother, “Mama Angel,” turning another year older by paying off her mortgage.

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“Before we sing ‘Happy Birthday,’ you said that if your mortgage was paid off that you would retire or you won’t work,” the basketball star told her mom, whose real name is Angel Webb Reese, during an episode of Unapologetically Angel. “You can pick if you want to work still, your mortgage today has been paid.”

After telling her mother that she could still work to keep herself busy if she chose, the athlete added: “That was my biggest goal in life to retire you and pay your mortgage.”