{"id":421011,"date":"2026-08-30T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421011\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:24:11","slug":"katy-estate-partly-funded-by-fantasy-football-winnings-guess-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421011\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy estate partly funded by fantasy football winnings: Guess the price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md bodyTextPadding\">For Houston stock trader Michael Cohen, playing fantasy football wasn\u2019t just a hobby \u2014 it was his ticket to winning millions, and then to building the home of his dreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md bodyTextPadding\">Cohen is a five-time million-dollar winner on daily fantasy sports platform DraftKings, grossing about $6 million from fantasy football contests between 2015 and 2024. In recent years, he and his wife, Angela, used the winnings toward building a  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.har.com\/homedetail\/4233-4245-two-gun-katy-tx-77494\/11053758#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">luxury home<\/a> just outside of Katy\u2019s Tamarron master-planned community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md bodyTextPadding\">Cohen stitched together multiple parcels to create a single 14.71-acre compound \u2013 an unusually large property in a sea of densely developed suburban streets. They worked with Houston-based Frankel Design Build to create a 14,695 square-foot home with a six-car garage and an attached casita.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md bodyTextPadding\">An entertainment wing of the house includes an arcade-themed room, a home theater and a built-in bowling alley. In the opposite wing of the home, there\u2019s a two-level library painted in moody dark tones that Cohen said could be an elegant wedding photo backdrop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md bodyTextPadding\">Custom details also include a set of oversized glass-and-iron front doors; a fireplace surrounded with floor-to-selling glazed stone; and a dining room rug with a wood-like appearance that blends into the light wood floors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md bodyTextPadding\">The Cohens are now selling the estate after deciding to divorce. The listing includes both the main residence the Cohens designed, as well as a separate older home on the property that could be used as a caretaker\u2019s residence with a 3-car garage, said Nicholas Moncada of Douglas Elliman, who is marketing the listing. When combining both the new and old homes, the estate has a total of more than 18,000 square feet and 11 bedrooms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Houston stock trader Michael Cohen, playing fantasy football wasn\u2019t just a hobby \u2014 it was his ticket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-421011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}