Trump's Queens childhood home sells for $1.93M after developer spent $500K gutting a 'mold-ridden cat den'

As controversy clouds President Trump's ongoing White House construction projects, a renovation of his first childhood home in Queens, N.Y. ,landed the property's seller a $1.93 million payday .

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The Jamaica Estates Tudor-style home where Trump spent the first four years of his life was built by his father , real estate developer Fred Trump, in 1940. The future president was born in 1946 and the family sold it in roughly 1950.

The home, which boasts five bedrooms and is about 3,100 square feet, has popped on and off the real estate market over the years — including a 2017 purchase for $2.1 million .

One person even turned it into a Trump-themed Airbnb, the Wall Street Journal noted , complete with "Trump memorabilia" throughout and a plaque in one of the five bedrooms that read "In this bedroom, President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived by his parents."

After the Airbnb was shut down, however, the house deteriorated, with real estate developer Tommy Lin, who completed the recent reno, recalling that when he bought the house in 2025 for $835,000, that "the roof was leaking, there was no water, no gas, no electricity. It was unlivable."

So Lin embarked on an eight-month renovation to refurbish and modernize the home — a project that cost him $500,000.

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In an interview with Mansion Global, Lin noted that "the only reason I took on this project was because it's Trump's childhood house."

In addition to the leaky roof and no water, gas or electricity, the story said that "the entire home had to be gutted to fix damage caused by frequent leaks and add full insulation."

It added that Lin also replaced the roof and windows and exterior facade, knocked down an interior wall, added herringbone and wide-plank flooring, overhauled the kitchen, added a new HVAC system, re-did all the interiors and put in a fresh garden for $15,000 on its own.

Another report described the residence as "a mold-ridden cat den" that became home to "colony of feral cats."

The New York Post, meanwhile, wrote that Lin kept an original wood stove but also added modern tech like "smart entry hardware and smart toilets," while quoting one "peeved neighbor" who said that "A beautiful house was left abandoned and no one took care of it for all this time."