Donald Trump's Queens Childhood Home Sold for $1.93 Million After Renovations
US President Donald Trump's childhood home in Queens, New York, has been sold for $1.93 million following extensive renovations by its previous buyer.
US President Donald Trump's childhood home in the Queens borough of New York was sold over the weekend for $1.93 million following a comprehensive renovation. The property was sold by an investor who purchased it last year after it had stood abandoned and suffered from prolonged neglect.
The president lived in the estate located in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood until the age of four. His father, real estate developer Fred Trump, built the house in 1940. The Trump family has not owned the property for many years, and the identity of the buyer in the current transaction, which was finalized this past July, has not yet been disclosed.
The seller, Tommy Lin, purchased the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home for $835,000. Prior to the acquisition, the house sat vacant, suffered from water damage and mold following a pipe burst, and, according to reports in the New York Post, served as a shelter for a colony of stray cats. Lin invested an additional $500,000 in an interior renovation that lasted eight months. According to him, the upgrade included the addition of a chef's kitchen, hardwood floors, and modern bathrooms.
The property has changed hands several times in recent years. A few months after Trump first took office in 2017, the house was sold for $2.14 million to a company named Trump Birth Home LLC. During that period, the house was offered for short-term rental via the Airbnb platform. Tenants enjoyed copies of his book The Art of the Deal, a framed People magazine cover featuring him, and a life-sized cardboard cutout of the president. In 2019, the house was put up for sale again for $2.9 million, but failed to find a buyer.
The president, now 80, amassed his fortune in the real estate business long before entering politics. Currently, alongside the sale of his childhood home, he is overseeing modifications at his current residence. The upgrades to the White House include the addition of an extensive ballroom and the incorporation of gold-plated fixtures in the Oval Office, which are characteristic of the design aesthetic of his private properties.
