{"id":345146,"date":"2026-09-12T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345146\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:46:53","slug":"president-trumps-childhood-home-in-queens-sells-for-nearly-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345146\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump’s childhood home in Queens sells for nearly $2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

President\u00a0Trump<\/a>‘s childhood home has sold for nearly $2 million after a renovation transformed the New York City residence from a mold-ridden cat den to a modern abode.<\/p>\n

The president lived at the Tudor-style Queens estate until age 4. His father, developer Fred Trump, built the home in the affluent Jamaica Estates neighborhood in 1940. The family hasn’t owned it in years.<\/p>\n

The sale price, $1.93 million, appeared Friday on real estate websites after a buyer, whose name hasn’t been disclosed, entered into a contract in July.<\/p>\n

The seller, Tommy Lin, had purchased the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home last year for $835,000 after it sat vacant and neglected for years.<\/p>\n

Lin, a developer, spent another $500,000 on an eight-month interior overhaul that added amenities including a chef’s kitchen, herringbone wood floors and spa-like bathrooms, the New York Post reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The boyhood home of President Donald Trump is seen on Jan. 17, 2017, in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kathy Willens<\/p>\n

The home has changed hands several times in recent years, including for $2.14 million months after Mr. Trump became president in 2017, according to Zillow.<\/p>\n

The buyer was an entity called Trump Birth Home LLC and the home was briefly offered for rent on Airbnb, complete with copies of a life-sized cardboard cutout of Mr. Trump, copies of his book “The Art of the Deal,” and a framed People magazine cover featuring Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n

It was listed for sale again in 2019 with an asking price of $2.9 million, but went unsold until Lin snapped it up.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Post reported, the home fell into disrepair, with water damage and mold from a burst pipe, and a colony of feral cats taking up residence where Mr.\u00a0Trump spent his earliest years.<\/p>\n

The president, now 80, got rich in the real estate business \u2014 putting up his namesake Trump Tower<\/a> in Manhattan and living there for decades \u2014 before parlaying his fame and wealth into politics.<\/p>\n

As president, he’s overseeing his own residential overhaul: adding a massive ballroom<\/a> to the White House and adorning the Oval Office with the kinds of gold-plated fixtures that are a hallmark of his properties and aesthetic.<\/p>\n

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