Donald Trump’s childhood house sells for £1.48m after mould and cat infestation
The seller purchased the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home in 2025 for $835,000 and spent a further $500,000 on an eight-month interior project that added several amenities
US President Donald Trump(Image: Getty Images)
The childhood home belonging to Donald Trump’s family has sold for nearly $2 million (£1.48million) more than seven decades after it housed the US president.
The New York City residence was once a mould-ridden cat den, but it has been transformed into a modern abode. Trump lived at the Tudor-style Queens estate until age 4 after his father, developer Fred Trump, built the home in the affluent Jamaica Estates neighbourhood in 1940.
The family has not owned the property in years. A sale price of $1.93 million (£1.42m) appeared Friday on real estate websites after a buyer, whose name has not been disclosed, entered into a contract in July.
The childhood home of US President Donald Trump recently sold for $1.93 million(Image: AP)
Tommy Lin, the seller, purchased the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home in 2025 for $835,000.
It preciously sat vacant and neglected for years. Lin invested a further $500,000 on an eight-month interior project that added amenities including a chef’s kitchen, herringbone wood floors and spa-like bathrooms.
The home has changed hands several times in recent years. It was sold for $2.14 million months after Trump became president in 2017, according to Zillow.
The buyer was an entity called Trump Birth Home LLC and the home and briefly offered for rent on Airbnb. The rental came with copies of a life-sized cardboard cut-out of the president, copies of his book “The Art of the Deal” and a framed People magazine cover featuring the US leader.
It was listed for sale again in 2019 with an asking price of $2.9 million, but went unsold until Lin purchased it.
Trump Tower in New York City(Image: Getty Images)
In the meantime, the home fell into disrepair. Water damage and mould was caused from a burst pipe and a colony of feral cats took up residence.
The president, now 80, got rich in the real estate business. He put up his namesake Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he lived for decades before parlaying his fame and wealth into politics.
As president, Trump is 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.
