A Tudor-style house in Jamaica Estates, Queens, which served as Donald Trump’s childhood home until he was four years old, has sold for $1.93 million after being gutted and remodeled. The property was bought by a real estate developer Tommy Lin in March 2025 for $835,000 and listed at $2.3 million the following November. Despite its historical significance as President Trump’s early residence, the current agent believes politics did not influence the sale; rather, it was appreciated for the renovation work done by the seller.
Written by the local model on 2026-09-13,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
In New York City, specifically in the neighborhood of Jamaica Estates, Queens, the childhood home of former US President Donald Trump sold for nearly $2.5 million after undergoing a complete renovation. The Tudor-style house, where Trump lived until he was four years old, had previously been listed as an Airbnb with a cardboard cutout of him but later fell into disrepair and became a hangout for feral cats. Real estate developer Tommy Lin purchased the property in March 2025 at a significant discount of $835,000 after several unsuccessful auction attempts to sell it. After extensive renovations including a chef’s kitchen and herringbone floors, the home was listed for sale at $2.3 million and ultimately sold on September 10, 2025, for $1.93 million. The buyer intends to live in the property long-term but wishes to remain anonymous, according to real estate agent Gerald Magny from RE/MAX.
Written for “Trump Childhood Home Sold” on 2026-09-14,
grounded in this article and the 0 other(s) covering the same event.
Why this leaning score
This article does not take a side on a contested political
question, so it has no leaning score. That is an
answer rather than a gap: a match report or a rescue can be warmly
or critically written without being left or right, and scoring it
anyway is how approval of a subject gets recorded as a political
position.
No political leaning scored for article 8638 · logged 2026-09-13
Gutted and remodelled, Trump’s childhood home sells for nearly $2.5m
Mack Liederman
AI generated
asserted
home → gutte → Liederman
A Tudor-style home in Jamaica Estates, Queens, doesn’t stand out among rows of others with warm colors and brown brickwork on a tree-lined street.
asserted
home → stand → street
And since Trump’s first election in 2016, it has gone from a pricey Airbnb listing fashioned with a cardboard cutout of the president to a hangout for feral cats.
asserted
it → go → cats
After a full gut renovation, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom house sold for US$1.93 million (S$2.45 million) on Sept 10, according to real estate records and the buyer’s agent.
uncertain
house → sell → records
The seller, Tommy Lin, a real estate developer, bought the home in March 2025 for US$835,000 at a significant discount after the property sat vacant for years.
asserted
property → buy → years
With a revamped chef’s kitchen and herringbone floors, the home hit the market in November, with Lin seeking US$2.3 million.
asserted
Lin → revamp → million
Lin did not return a request for comment.
asserted
Lin → return → comment
The buyer has not been publicly disclosed.
asserted
buyer → disclose → ?
The new owner plans to live in the home “long-term” and has wanted to remain anonymous, said Gerald Magny, an agent with RE/MAX Edge representing the buyer.
asserted
Magny → plan → buyer
The agent said he did not believe politics played a role in the sale.
asserted
politics → say → sale
“They loved the work that was put into the home,” Magny said.
asserted
Magny → love → home
“I don’t think the lore of it being President Trump’s former childhood home helped necessarily.”
asserted
it → think → ?
Listings for the property did not shy away from its association with Trump, calling it a “true legacy property” and a “rare and extraordinary opportunity” to own the president’s childhood home.
asserted
Listings → shy → home
Trump’s father, Fred Trump, built the home in 1940.
asserted
father → build → 1940
The fourth of his five children, Donald, was born in 1946.
asserted
fourth → bear → 1946
The Trumps left the house in 1950 after the elder Trump built a 23-room, colonnaded brick mansion directly behind the family’s old backyard, where Donald spent the rest of his childhood.
asserted
Donald → leave → childhood
“Different parts of Queens were rough; this was an oasis,” Trump said in a 2015 interview.
asserted
Trump → say → interview
Despite the Trump family being decades removed from the property, it has still occasionally attracted visitors.
asserted
it → remove → visitors
A developer named Michael Davis bought the house in 2016 after the election, and later rented it out for US$725 per night on the home-sharing platform Airbnb.
asserted
developer → name → platform
The home was adorned with Trump memorabilia that included a life-size cardboard cutout, framed magazine covers and paperback copies of The Art of the Deal.
asserted
that → adorn → Deal
Plaques indicated the “likely childhood bedroom of President Donald J. Trump” and the room where “President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived”.
asserted
Trump → indicate → Trump
The home was sold in 2017 for US$2.14 million to a limited-liability corporation called Trump Birth House in a sale managed by a law firm specialising in foreign Chinese buyers.
asserted
home → sell → buyers
Several attempts to sell the home via auction in 2019 were unsuccessful as the home fell into disrepair before it was bought by Lin years later at a significant discount.
Magny said the property no longer had any reference to Trump’s time there.
asserted
property → sell → time
The president’s association with the home “might have garnered some attention,” Magny said.
uncertain
Magny → garner → attention
“But for this particular buyer, it didn’t seal the deal.”
asserted
it → seal → deal
