The childhood home of President Donald Trump in New York found a buyer after it was renovated by a real estate developer over the last year.

Located in the Queens borough of New York City, the Tudor-style home was built by the president’s father, real estate developer Fred Trump, in the affluent neighborhood known as Jamaica Estates in 1940.

The president lived at the home until the age of 4, when the family moved to a larger home in the neighborhood in 1950, Realtor.com reported.

The home was purchased a little more than a year ago by real estate developer Tommy Lin, who bought it for $835,000 in March 2025, according to PropertyShark records.

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Trump lived in the Jamaica Estates home until the age of 4, when the family moved to a larger house in the neighborhood. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Lin previously told Mansion Global that while his work typically focuses on condos in Brooklyn, the “only reason I took on this project was because it’s Trump’s childhood house,” adding that ordinarily it would be “a little too small for me to do.”

At the time of Lin’s purchase, the house was in need of upkeep, with issues including a leaking roof, an overgrown yard and feral cats.

After it was purchased last year, the home was in need of repairs and upkeep. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Lin worked on the renovation with Jevon Gratineau of Brown Harris Stevens, and they started the renovation with fixes to the interior caused by leaks, along with replacing the roof and windows and adding full insulation. He also redid the home’s facade, though it retains its Tudor-style appearance.

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The two largely kept the layout of the 3,400 square foot, five-bedroom home intact from its original design – though they did remove a wall to open the kitchen and living room area.

Lin and Gratineau told Mansion Global that the renovation cost about $500,000. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

They also fully finished the interior of the home after originally planning to just make it livable, with Lin telling the outlet he put “double or triple the time and effort” into this project compared to what he would normally work on.

The two told Mansion Global that the total renovation cost was a little over $500,000 – which included higher than expected spending on a new HVAC system as well as the property’s gardening.

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The renovated home was most recently listed at a little below $2 million before the sale was pending. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The former Trump family home went back on the market late last year when it was listed in November for $2.3 million.

It was delisted by the end of January and relisted briefly in March for $2.2 million. The was relisted in May with a new agent, Joe Zhu of Re/Max Edge, with the most recent asking price just below $2 million.

The home was pending sale as of Tuesday, according to Realtor.com.

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England’s World Cup semi-final against Argentina delivered the biggest single night of trading that Britain’s pubs and bars have seen all tournament, with transactions up 145 per cent on the day and late-night trade between 10pm and 2am up 97 per cent, according to new figures from payments company Square.

For a sector that entered the summer counting closures rather than customers, Wednesday’s numbers are the clearest evidence yet that the tournament’s forecast multibillion-pound windfall is landing in tills rather than staying in spreadsheets.

The scale of the semi-final effect becomes obvious when set against the rest of England’s run. The quarter-final against Norway on 11 July lifted pub and bar transactions by 40 per cent, a strong night by any normal measure, yet barely a third of Wednesday’s uplift.

Venues did not even need England on the pitch to feel the benefit. The Spain v France semi-final on 14 July, a fixture with no home interest whatsoever, still gave pubs a 26 per cent lift.

The late-night figure will be particularly welcome. The government’s contingent relaxation of licensing hours allowed licensed premises in England and Wales to keep serving until 1am for the semi-final, and the near-doubling of trade after 10pm suggests operators made every one of those extra minutes count.

Outside London, the biggest winners were in the Midlands and the North. Birmingham topped Square’s table of major English cities, with transactions at pubs, bars and restaurants up 121 per cent on the day of the Argentina match. Southampton followed on 115 per cent, with Manchester close behind on 112 per cent, Bristol on 93 per cent and Sheffield on 76 per cent.

John O’Beirne, CEO of Square International, said the tournament had been a landmark for the industry. “The World Cup has been an important moment for British hospitality. Football fans have turned out to support their country game after game, and England’s match against Argentina drew the largest crowds yet to pubs and bars. Even though England won’t be in the final, we can still expect bars and pubs to see strong trading as people tune into the final weekend of the tournament.”

There is one wrinkle for operators eyeing Sunday’s final. The automatic licensing extension applied only to matches involving a home nation, so with England out, venues wanting to trade beyond their normal hours will need a Temporary Event Notice rather than a free pass.

For SME owners, the numbers carry two lessons beyond the tournament. The first is that big-event demand is now predictable enough to plan for, which is why insurers have been urging operators to prepare for event-driven demand spikes months in advance, from staffing to stock to licensing.

The second is resilience. A 145 per cent surge in card transactions is only good news if the card machines stay up, and June’s Worldpay outage during England’s group game against Ghana showed how quickly a bumper night can turn into a cash-only scramble.

England may not have made the final, but for the nation’s publicans the tournament has already paid out. The question now is whether Sunday’s crowds turn up for the football alone, or simply because going to the pub for the big match has become a habit again.

Amy Ingham

Amy Ingham is a reporter at Business Matters, covering UK business news with a focus on breaking news, business policy, late payments and insolvency. She joined the magazine in 2026 after completing the NCTJ Diploma in Journalism at Harlow College’s journalism school. Her recent reporting includes British Steel’s nationalisation and its impact on SME suppliers, the decline in late payments by large firms, and Insolvency Service director disqualifications. Reach her at aingham@cbmeg.co.uk.

The fund should come out of a review of the Development Bank of Wales’ funding remit

One of the most interesting economic announcements from the Welsh Government in recent weeks was not a new strategy or another consultation exercise, but a small loan scheme for farmers.

On the face of it, the Sustainable Agriculture Loan Scheme is a modest £5m pilot, delivered through the Development Bank of Wales, offering fixed-rate loans to farms seeking to invest in renewable energy, energy efficiency, storage, waste and nutrient management, equipment, processing and infrastructure.

It is long overdue, as Welsh farming is undergoing a difficult transition and many farms will need capital to modernise, reduce costs and adapt to the demands placed on them. A long-term loan at an affordable rate is more disciplined than simply handing out grants, and if an investment saves money, raises output or strengthens the business, finance should be repaid over time.

But the more important question is why this approach should apply only to agricultural businesses? If a farm can access patient, affordable financing to invest in solar panels, new equipment, or improved processing capacity, why should a manufacturer, food producer, hotel, engineering firm, or logistics business not be able to do the same?

The underlying economic problem is not unique to agriculture, as too many Welsh firms lack the capital, confidence, or incentive to invest in the technology, equipment, and systems that would make them more productive. That matters because productivity is now supposed to be the North Star of Welsh economic policy, which is not surprising given that GVA per hour worked in Wales was just 84.9 per cent of the UK average in 2023, the lowest of the twelve UK nations and English regions.

Yet if productivity is the objective, the machinery of economic development has to change, and all the institutions of Welsh economic policy need to be directed squarely at the problem and that must start with the Development Bank of Wales,

However, there is a major problem here, as its annual business loan interest rates currently range from 6.25% to 13%. As the bank’s senior management has argued many times, those rates reflect risk, security, and each applicant’s financial position, and that is how commercial lending works.

But compare that with the new farm scheme, which offers a fixed rate of 3%, loans from £25,000 to £1m, repayment terms of up to 15 years, and a six-month repayment holiday. That is not a small difference but a completely different proposition, and a Welsh business borrowing at the development bank’s average rate of 8.56% over five years faces a very different investment calculation from that of a farm borrowing under this scheme.

Certainly, if the Welsh Government believes that patient capital with lower interest rates over an extended repayment period can help farms invest to become more productive, resilient, and sustainable, then why is the same principle not being applied to investment across the wider Welsh economy, as some of us have been proposing for years?

Given this, should the development bank now make productivity-enhancing investment its primary strategic purpose and reorganise the bank’s public mission around a clearer test: i.e., will this investment raise output, reduce costs, improve margins, increase wages, expand capacity, strengthen exports, or reduce carbon intensity? If the answer is yes, then that business should be eligible for patient, affordable finance

So why not introduce a Welsh productivity investment loan as the development bank’s flagship product?

It could support smaller firms with microloans for digital systems, software, energy efficiency, equipment and process improvements. It could back established SMEs with larger loans for machinery, automation, robotics, storage, production systems, AI adoption and low-carbon technology. It could fund long-term strategic projects in manufacturing, food and drink, tourism, life sciences, engineering and advanced services where the investment case is clear.

The key is that the test should be the investment, not the sector, and a farm investing in new storage capacity or a food manufacturer investing in refrigeration and automation may be solving different operational problems, but economically they are both trying to do the same thing, which is to produce more value from the same or fewer inputs.

This is where public finance can make a real difference, as commercial lenders are often cautious about long-term productivity investments, especially for smaller firms without strong asset backing. Many businesses know they need to invest but hesitate because payback periods are uncertain, interest rates are high, or day-to-day pressures consume management attention. Indeed, that was one of the primary reasons for creating the Development Bank of Wales 12 years ago.

Of course, this should not become cheap debt for weak firms with no future as Wales does not need a subsidised survival fund for businesses that are not prepared to change. This would also change how we measure success, as too often, economic development in Wales has been judged by how much money is lent, how many businesses are supported, or how many jobs are claimed and not by productivity outcomes such as turnover per employee, margin improvement, wage growth, energy efficiency, export growth, capacity increases, and private investment leveraged.

The farm loan scheme should therefore be seen not as an exception, but as a pilot for the rest of the Welsh economy. If long-term, affordable finance can help farms invest to become more resilient and productive, then the same principle should apply across the Welsh business base.

The new Welsh Government has promised to review the activities of the development bank so what better time to shift its strategic focus from general business finance to a national productivity mission?

Because if Wales is serious about closing the gap with the rest of the UK, then the question every publicly backed business loan should ask is simple: will this make a Welsh firm more productive and if the answer is yes, then give those firms the affordable patient capital to make it happen.

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