Jake Paul has spent $39M for a massive Georgia ranch

Paul discussed the purchase earlier this month on “The Iced Coffee Hour” podcast, revealing he used the bulk of his roughly $30 million earnings from his 2024 boxing match against heavyweight legend Mike Tyson to fund the acquisition.

“It’s always been a dream of mine,” Paul said. “I’ve wanted to buy a ranch for the last 15 years.”

Set roughly 8 miles from Bainbridge, the plantation is a rare find in Georgia’s quail belt.

In addition to wild quail, the estate is home to trophy white-tail deer and features a variety of natural amenities, including 5 miles of spring-fed creeks, a stocked lake, a duck pond, a 60-acre irrigated field and direct frontage on Lake Seminole. Less than 3% of the land is wetlands.

Jon Kohler of Jon Kohler & Associates, who co-listed the property with Walter Hatchett, likened the significance of the sale to owning a sports franchise.

“Southlands is an institution; it’s like owning your own professional football team,” Kohler told Mansion Global. “You get history, culture and traditions, and you’re a land steward dictating its future.”

The ranch includes a recently renovated 4,884-square-foot main lodge with eight bedrooms, five full bathrooms and one half bath.

The grounds also hold a collection of updated and new outbuildings, including a four-stall barn for horseback and quail hunting, a manager’s house and guesthouse, a pavilion, an equipment shed, a workshop and a cooler facility for game processing.

Southlands was previously owned by Brian Philpot, CEO and principal owner of AgAmerica Lending, which specializes in agricultural loans. Philpot acquired the property in 2023 through a private transaction; the price was not disclosed.

For Paul, who recalled spending time at a cabin with his father as a child, the purchase is about more than luxury.

“I wanted a place where I can wakesurf, hunt and build a racetrack,” he said on the podcast.

It greatly saddens me that a 27 year old YouTube "star" has this kind of money to spend.

This whole world is completely out of whack.

Good God, he couldn't have picked a worse part of the state to buy into. The SW corner of Ga. is a great vast wasteland. The largest nearby city, Albany (pronounced ALLbinny) by the locals is one of the most depressed cities in the nation. He will be relatively close to the Redneck Riviera, and he seems to be a major redneck, so that may work out well for him.

It looks like heaven for gators and snakes.

If he depleted his principal earnings on this dump, then he's a moron. I was on the market for 7 months for a reason. And as r3 says, that is a gross area of a gross state, adjacent to the grossest areas of the gross Panhandle of Florida and Nowheresville Alabama. A fool and his money...

^IT was on the market... Muriel!!!

Y'all are a bunch of anti-capitalist and South haters. 🙄

It will be foreclosed on in about three years.

It's hideous as well.

A perfect wealthy MAGA abode.

That's 9 square miles (!!!) - he'll probably try to re-zone it and develop the land for commercial use/housing.

Otherwise, this is a huge waste of money and I'm glad he's wasting so much of his 'fortune'.

But yeah - life isn't fair, but seeing these stupid high school-level antics make tens of millions is like life actively spitting in your face.

R5 you obviously mistook what I wrote. In no way do I think the SW corner of Ga. is "gross". It's just very boring. And the redneck Riviera is possibly one of the (if not the) most beautiful stretches of ocean front in the country. And I, unlike you, know what I'm talking about as I've lived in Ga. for 72 years.

“Southlands is an institution; it’s like owning your own professional football team,” Kohler told Mansion Global. “You get history, culture and traditions, and you’re a land steward dictating its future.” - said the real estate agent.

Who's buying this bullshit? It hasn't been publicly offered in 90 years - but a guy just bought it 2 years ago.

This may be a shady deal of some kind.

Well, if he wants peace and quiet with nothing to do but be out in nature maybe he'll be happy there.

R3 what other pronunciation would there be?

His inevitable crash & burn will be spectacular.

Despise this MAGA white trash piece of garbage. I'm sure sucking on orange anus greatly enhanced wealth.

Brain dead thug

He should have saved his money for all the years he'll need it, after CTE sets in.

A farm not a ranch.

I wonder how many undocumented immigrants work there. Maybe ICE should pay this farm a visit.

[quote] A farm not a ranch.

Wrong. A farm is where crops are raised. A ranch is where animals are raised.

Enjoy the mosquitoes, buddy.

I don’t think Tyson hit him once, and he gets $30m?