Charles Oakley House: His Atlanta Home & the Pineville Landmark

Search for the Charles Oakley house and two very different buildings turn up. One is the Atlanta estate where the former Knicks enforcer lives with his wife, Angela, which reached a television audience in 2026 when she joined The Real Housewives of Atlanta. The other is a 1920s house on Main Street in Pineville, North Carolina, a protected local landmark built by a banker named C.S. Oakley, who has no connection to the basketball player at all.

This guide covers both: what is actually on record about the NBA star’s homes, which popular claims are not, and the full documented history of the Pineville house.

Where Charles Oakley Lives Now

The former power forward and his wife, Angela, share a home in the Atlanta area with their blended family. It is the house viewers saw when Angela joined RHOA in its sixteenth season, and Bravo published a four-minute exclusive tour of it. In the clip she calls it an estate and points to the kitchen as the room Charles uses most. Coverage of the tour by The Root also describes a basketball court, a resort-style pool and an outdoor grilling area.

What has not been published is just as important. No purchase date, price, square footage or precise location for the house appears in any public listing or mainstream report. Estimates of its value that circulate online are guesses, not figures from a sale.

The move into reality television puts Oakley alongside another RHOA name whose property history is better documented: Kenya Moore’s Moore Manor, a house whose ups and downs played out on the same show.

Angela Oakley’s Investment Properties

The Oakleys’ real-estate story on the show is not about their own home. It is about the houses Angela bought to renovate and resell. According to Bravo, she owned five investment properties, had sold none of them, and received foreclosure notices during the season. She has said she lost about $2 million of her own money.

She did not stop. In the same episode she was days from closing on a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Decatur, Georgia, for about $180,000, which her daughter pointed out needed work. Charles, who had refused to put more money into the venture, was blunt about it on camera: “The other four didn’t get flipped,” he said, before wishing her luck. Angela framed the smaller purchase as a lesson learned, saying that sometimes it is about small gains rather than big ones.

The Pineville Oakley House and the Man Who Built It

The North Carolina house belongs to a different century and a different Oakley. C.S. Oakley, a newcomer from Ridgeway, Virginia, owned the Pineville Lumber Company and was president of the Pineville Loan and Savings Bank in what was then a small cotton town on the railroad, eleven miles south of Charlotte. In 1919 he bought roughly four acres on Main Street from W.E. Younts for $1,500 and built the most elaborate house the town had seen.

His fortunes did not last. By 1922 he had declared bankruptcy and the house went to auction. His wife, Gertrude, received $350 to settle her dower claim, and local tradition holds that Oakley left town soon after.

What the House Looks Like

The 2003 survey report prepared for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission describes a house that mixes Prairie and Craftsman elements but avoids the small-cottage look of most Craftsman homes in the county. It is a two-story, crossed-gable design set 70 feet back on a raised lot, and its builder went to unusual lengths to avoid any flat wall.

The report calls it Pineville’s only example of an early 20th-century grand town home. The one house in town with comparable ambition is the 1883 Italianate Younts house directly across Main Street, built by the family that sold Oakley his land.

The Families Who Lived There

Richard Gatling Eubanks, a Navy veteran of the First World War educated at Harvard, managed the Southern Cotton Oil Company plant in Charlotte and served ten years on the Mecklenburg County School Board. Even in town, his family kept chickens, cows and a garden on the four acres and rented one acre to a neighbor to grow cotton.

His son Tom’s recollections, recorded for the 2003 report, give the house its character. Their father checked the newel posts in case Oakley had hidden money in them. Tom and his brother once fired a .22 through an upstairs window, and the sill is still chipped. Tom hid in the music-room closet to dodge his music teacher. A neighbor told him a refugee child from the Civil War had been buried where the front yard now lies; no remains were ever found, but the family never dug there.

After Eubanks died in 1971, the house passed to his daughter Frances and her husband, Charles R. Yandell. Yandell had been a 23-year-old Eighth Air Force navigator, shot down on his fifth mission near Dusseldorf and held for nine months in Stalag 1. He then worked as a pharmacist and an Eli Lilly salesman, joined the Pineville Town Council in 1946, and was elected mayor in 1988. The Yandells added the downstairs rear extension.

Can You Visit the Charles Oakley House?

The Pineville house is a private home, not a museum, so it can only be seen from Main Street. Its 2003 designation covers both the exterior and the interior, which means alterations need review, and it allows the owner to defer half of the property tax. At the time, the county valued the lot at $561,200 and the aging house itself at just $3,600.

For the basketball player’s house, there is nothing to visit, and no address should be shared; the only public look inside is Bravo’s tour. Fans of 1990s power forwards may find more documented ground with Oakley’s old friend and rival in the paint, Charles Barkley, and his Scottsdale house.

Sources

• Bravo, The Daily Dish: Angela Oakley’s five investment properties, foreclosure notices, the $2 million loss and the $180,000 Decatur purchase (April 19, 2026 episode).
• Bravo, RHOA Season 16: exclusive tour of the Oakleys’ Atlanta home.
• The Root: description of the home’s court, pool and outdoor areas.
• Wikipedia: Oakley’s playing career.
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, Survey and Research Report on the Oakley House (May 2003): ownership chain, deeds, architecture, Eubanks and Yandell histories, and 2003 tax values.
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission: landmark designation (June 10, 2003).