Donald Trump became president of his father’s real-estate company in 1971, building residences, hotels, casinos, and more over the course of his career.
The president-elect’s name appears on properties from Turkey to India, but he hasn’t truly lived in that many.
From a triplex penthouse wholly decorated in gold to a palatial country estate once owned by the Heinz family, Trump’s chosen homes are pretty special
Today, the property most synonymous with Trump is his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, where he spent a large chunk of his first term and has recently hosted Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and more.
Once he’s inaugurated a second time, Trump will move back to the White House in Washington, DC.
If his next presidential term is anything like his last, Trump will still spend time at some of his other homes in Florida and in the Northeast. (Representatives for the Trump-Vance transition team didn’t respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.)
Here’s a look at Trump’s houses over the years.
Trump spent his early years in an affluent neighborhood in Queens, New York.
Trump was born in 1946 in Queens, New York, to Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. During his childhood, he lived in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens, 22 miles east of Manhattan.
Jamaica Estates remains a relatively wealthy part of Queens, with a median listing price of $1.5 million, according to Realtor.com.
Trump’s father was one of the real-estate developers who built Jamaica Estates, which has verdant streets lined with Tudor-style homes.
His dad also built the five-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot home on Wareham Place where Trump lived until he was four years old.
Trump’s childhood home last sold in 2017 to a limited liability company called Trump Birth House, which paid $2.14 million for the property in an auction. A few months later, the home was listed on Airbnb with a nightly rate of $725.
Trump Birth House listed the home for sale again in February 2019, with an asking price $2.9 million. In September 2019, the house went back on the auction block but still could not find a buyer.
In October, real-estate website Curbed reported that the owner had been MIA and that 20 to 30 feral cats were living in the unkempt yard.
When Trump is in New York City, he stays in his three-story penthouse atop Trump Tower.
There are Trump towers all over the world, but the president-elect has called the Trump Tower home since it opened in 1983.
Trump owns a three-level penthouse designed by late interior designer Angelo Donghia in the Louis XIV style, draped in gold furnishings and accents.
Trump has claimed that the penthouse is more than 30,000 square feet, but Forbes said in 2022 that property records show the actual square footage is 10,996. In 2024, Forbes estimated that the condo was worth $50 million.
His real-estate firm’s offices and 2016 presidential campaign were headquartered in Trump Tower, which rises 68 stories at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 56th Street.
Other past famous residents of Trump Tower include late-night talk show host Johnny Carson, pop icon Michael Jackson, and actor Bruce Willis.
Trump’s primary residence is the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Built in 1927 by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, Mar-a-Lago is a 128-room mansion facing the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Mar-a-Lago website, Post donated the 17-acre property to the US government, who gave it back to the family when it couldn’t keep up with the $1 million it cost each year to maintain the property.
Trump purchased Mar-a-Lago in 1985 for $5 million. He used it as a private residence until 1995, when he established it as The Mar-a-Lago Club. The Guardian reported in August that the initiation fee to join is $1 million.
Trump has renovated the property, including adding a 20,000-square-foot ballroom with Louis XIV gold and crystal finishes in 2005, according to the property’s website.
Trump made Mar-a-Lago his primary residence in 2019.
Trump also has a massive country estate called Seven Springs outside New York City.
The president-elect owns a 60-room house in Westchester County, about 43 miles from Trump Tower.
Trump bought the estate, named Seven Springs, for $7.5 million in 1996. The seller was Eugene Meyer, the former Washington Post publisher who built it in 1919, according to the Trump Organization. Trump originally planned to turn the estate into a golf course but decided to keep it a private residence.
In addition to the main house, which has seven bedrooms over 50,000 square feet and was formerly owned by the Heinz family of ketchup fame, the property has carriage homes and three pools on its 230 acres.
The estate is so big that it straddles three different towns: Bedford, Armonk and Chappaqua.
Trump had claimed the property was worth $291 million, but Forbes reported in 2024 that the estate is worth closer to $30 million.
In March, New York State Attorney General Letitia James sought a sheriff’s sale of Seven Springs as part of a $454 million judgment Trump was ordered to pay. Trump has appealed the ruling, and this week lawyers for the president-elect asked James to drop her civil fraud case against him.
Trump owns a few cottages at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
In 2002, Trump purchased Lamington Farm, a 506-acre estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, from National Fairways, a Connecticut-based golf course developer.
According to a 2002 article in the New York Times, Trump paid “substantially less than the $35 million the seller invested in the project.”
Bedminster is a town about 40 minutes west of Newark, New Jersey, and about an hour from New York City.
Trump National Golf Club, which has two 18-hole courses, opened in 2004.
In 2009, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, married Jared Kushner, who then worked for his family’s real-estate development firm, at the golf club in Bedminster in 2009.
The main house is used as a private club for members of the golf course, but the Trump family owns cottages on the property. According to a 2017 article from Politico, Trump has a villa exclusively for him that has a two-story balcony and porch.
Trump is estimated to have played 261 rounds of golf, one every 5.6 days, during his first term as president, according to an analysis by the Washington Post.
In 2017, Bedminster hosted the US Women’s Open. In 2022, it was going to host the PGA Championship, but the association relocated it to a different venue after the January 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters.
Trump will move into the White House after the inauguration on January 20.
Built in 1792, the White House has been home to every US president since 1800. Trump, of course, already stayed in the White House during his presidency from 2017 to 2021.
With 132 rooms — which include 16 guest rooms, 35 bathrooms, and three kitchens — the White barely beats out some of the other properties he owns when it comes to opulence and grandeur.
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