Donald Trump, the former US president, businessman, and media personality, now owns six homes. Former US President Donald Trump is rumored to be considering a run for the White House again in 2024. But, before his political career got off, the rich businessman amassed a substantial real estate portfolio, which he used for both personal and business purposes. Take a look at Donald Trump’s real estate empire, which includes his childhood home, his New York mansion, and his floundering Florida resort.
Trump’s move to the White House in 2017 gave him access to Camp David as a rural retreat, but he already owned plenty of other stunning properties. And, based on all of his trips there as the former president, which have cost us millions of dollars, he plainly prefers his own places to a government-issued one.
Now let’s take a glance at Donald Trump’s luxurious properties!
Luxury Houses owned by Donald Trump
Trump grew up in the upscale Jamaica Estates section of Queens, New York City. He resided on campus during his stay at the New York Military Academy and afterwards rented row houses in college. Trump relocated to an apartment on 75th Street in Manhattan in 1971, and has lived in a three-level penthouse on the top floors of Trump Tower since its completion in 1983. In 1995, he bought the Seven Springs house in Bedford, New York. Trump moved into the White House in Washington, D.C. after being elected president of the United States. From 1946 until 2019, Trump declared New York as his primary state of residence; in September 2019, Donald and Melania changed their primary residence to Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Trump left the White House on January 20, 2021, just before Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Here is an overview at Trump’s own real estate holdings.
Trump Tower Penthouse, New York City
The gilded three-level penthouse at the top of Trump Tower, his skyscraper at 725 Fifth Avenue, is Trump’s New York City apartment. (His 14-year-old son, Barron, is said to have his own floor.) His offices were also in the building, so he was used to living and working at the same address when he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. However, since the penthouse was designed after the Palace of Versailles, with rococo decor and a plethora of gold, the White House decor may seem a little modest.
During the presidential campaign, Trump gave Forbes a tour of the penthouse, claiming it was the “best apartment ever built” and boasting about its 33,000-square-foot size and estimated value of at least $200 million. The problem is that, according to Forbes, “those comments were typical Trump: boastful and inaccurate.” The home is actually 10,996 square feet and valued at $54 million.
Trump Tower, according to Bloomberg, has become one of the least desired condos in New York City due to its ties to the president. Not only are protests common near the door, but the city also painted “Black Lives Matter” in large block letters on the roadway in front of the building in July of this year. “Black lives matter in this city, and Black lives matter in the United States of America,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was present for the event. Let’s demonstrate to Donald Trump what he doesn’t get. For him, let’s paint it right in front of his building.”
Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach
It’s no surprise that the president has spent the majority of his 378 days at a private residence in Mar-a-Lago (he has so far spent 133 days there). Despite the fact that it is not a publicly owned or maintained facility and is a security nightmare, Trump declared in 2014 that the 128-room home built by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1927 is “the grand estate of Palm Beach.” He has also dubbed it the “Winter White House.” Despite this, he has utilized the private club for official purposes, such as hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a two-day conference in 2017.
Post had long wanted Mar-a-Lago to be turned over to the public. After her death, she donated it to the United States government, but it was restored to Post’s daughters in 1980 due to the $1 million in annual upkeep expenditures. Trump purchased the 17-acre property for $5 million in 1985 and transformed it into a private club ten years later, spending $100,000 on four gold-plated sinks and building a 20,000-square-foot ballroom with $7 million in golf leaf.
The pleasure of hobnobbing with Trump as a member now reportedly includes a $200,000 entrance fee (up from $100,000 pre-election), $14,000 yearly dues, and a $2,000 annual food minimum. In 2014, Trump earned $15.6 million from the club.
The Government Accountability Office attempted to quantify how much the president’s numerous Mar-a-Lago visits cost taxpayers in 2017, but was unable to do so because the White House refused to give additional information. They did establish, however, that four excursions to Mar-a-Lago by the president over the course of a month in 2017 cost at least $13.6 million.
In addition to Mar-a-Lago, the president has three other Palm Beach houses valued a total of $25 million.
Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster Township, New Jersey
The Trump National, dubbed the “Summer White House” after Mar-a-Lago, is arguably the president’s second favorite retreat after Mar-a-Lago. He also refers to his trips there as “working vacations.”
While the Trump family owns cottages on the Bedminster, New Jersey, site, the main house is a private club open to members (at an estimated fee of $350,000). In 2009, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner married there, and in 2015, they were granted permission to extend their cottage by 2,200 square feet.
Trump adores the place so much that he once expressed his desire to be buried there. (Since then, he’s supposedly changed his mind and relocated to Florida.)
In 2018, it was uncovered that Trump staffers were given member discounts (up to 70%) at the club’s pro shop, which was purportedly Ivanka’s idea, alarmed Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a government ethics watchdog in Washington, D.C.
Seven Springs, Bedford, New York
Seven Springs, one of Trump’s most hidden mansions, features 60 rooms, 15 of which are bedrooms, as well as a bowling alley and three pools. He reportedly paid $7.5 million to buy the property in 1996 with the intention of turning it into a golf course, but it is still a private residence (probably because of vehement opposition to the plan from local residents). According to Forbes, the property is now worth $24 million.
The Trump family appears to utilize the 50,000-square-foot house, built in 1919 by former Federal Reserve Chairman and Washington Post editor Eugene Meyer (he was the father of Katharine Graham), as a weekend and summer vacation about 45 miles north of New York City. During the United Nations General Assembly meeting in 2009, Trump reportedly let the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to camp in a tent there, perhaps unknowingly, because no hotels would accept Gaddafi as a guest.
Trump Winery, Charlottesville, Virginia
The Trump Winery has a peculiar and long history. To summarize, Trump paid a “bargain-basement price of $8.5 million on a deal that could ultimately be worth $170 million,” netting him 1,100 Virginia acres, including the vineyards and winemaking operation “that had been meticulously cultivated by its previous owner, Patricia Kluge (who defaulted on her loans, after which the property was seized by Bank of America),” and appointing his second-oldest son, Eric, as president of the nascent Trump Winery.
The 23,000-square-foot Albemarle House is now part of the Trump Hotels brand (rates start at $299 per night, according to a recent search). While Trump claimed to own “one of the largest wineries in the United States” at a press conference on August 15, the winery’s website states that it “is one of the largest wineries in the United States,” but the winery’s website itself states that it “is a registered trade name of Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, which is not owned, managed or affiliated with Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization or any of their affiliates”
Trump has two $1.5 million houses in Sterling, Virginia (near the Trump National Washington D.C. golf course) as well.
Le Château des Palmiers, St. Martin
In the spring of 2017, Former President Trump put this gated Caribbean estate on the market for $28 million, but it was quickly reduced to $16.9 million. Trump purchased Le Château des Palmiers in 2013 and has primarily utilized it as a rental property. It features nine bedrooms and 12 full bathrooms. On the five-acre estate, there are two villas, as well as pool cabanas and an estate manager’s home.
According to the original listing, the property has “a huge heated pool, an open air- and air-conditioned fitness center, a tennis court, and covered outdoor bar, [and] billiards and dining areas”
The smaller of the two villas is said to start at $6,000 per night in the low season and go up to $28,000 during the winter holiday season.
There’s no word on whether the house has subsequently sold, but it’s still listed on the Trump Organization’s website, and Forbes valued it at $13 million in October 2019.
Donald Trump’s Childhood Home in Queens, New York, Is Where It All Began
The 2,500-square-foot mansion, constructed by the president’s father in 1940, was briefly available for rent on Airbnb for $725 per night.
