{"id":345172,"date":"2026-09-12T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345172\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:42:12","slug":"president-donald-trumps-childhood-home-sells-for-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345172\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s childhood home sells for $2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Donald Trump\u2019s 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\u2019t owned it in years.<\/p>\n

The sale price, $1.93 million, appeared Friday on real estate websites after a buyer, whose name hasn\u2019t been disclosed, entered into a contract in July.<\/p>\n

\"FILEFILE – The boyhood home of President-elect Donald Trump is seen on Jan. 17, 2017, in New York.(Kathy Willens | AP Photo\/Kathy Willens)<\/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\u2019s kitchen, herringbone wood floors and spa-like bathrooms, the New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The home has changed hands several times in recent years, including for $2.14 million months after Trump became president in 2017, according to Zillow<\/a>.<\/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 Trump, copies of his book \u201cThe Art of the Deal\u201d and a framed People magazine cover featuring Trump.<\/p>\n

It was listed for sale again in 2019 with an asking price of $2.9 million<\/a>, 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 Trump spent his earliest years.<\/p>\n

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

As president, he\u2019s overseeing his own residential overhaul: adding a massive ballroom 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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