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.

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Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke darkened skies across a wide stretch of the United States on Thursday, from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast, reducing visibility in major cities and prompting warnings that breathing the outside air could pose a serious health risk to millions of people.

The smoke, drifting south from hundreds of active wildfires burning across Canada, triggered air quality alerts in at least 18 states stretching from Minnesota to New Hampshire and as far south as Virginia. According to the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System, roughly 858 wildfires were burning across Canada as of Thursday, the majority concentrated in the province of Ontario, where 113 fires remained classified as out of control. Some of that smoke traveled more than a thousand miles to reach cities in the United States, including New York City, despite Toronto itself sitting more than 1,100 miles from where many of the largest fires were burning in sparsely populated parts of Ontario.

Milwaukee bore some of the worst conditions recorded anywhere in the country. City officials said the Wisconsin city recorded its worst air quality on record Thursday, with an Air Quality Index reading of 644, more than double the city’s previous record of 300, which had stood since 1987. Readings at that level fall far outside the standard 0-to-500 scale typically used to describe air pollution, reflecting just how severe the smoke concentration became in parts of the Upper Midwest.

Milwaukee was far from alone. According to rankings compiled by the air-quality monitoring service IQAir, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., were among the cities most heavily affected by the smoke, with several registering conditions officially classified as hazardous, the most severe category on the U.S. Air Quality Index. Parts of New York City recorded AQI readings exceeding 200 Thursday evening, a level considered “very unhealthy,” while officials in several cities warned that readings above 150 posed a danger to the general public, not just to individuals in traditionally sensitive groups such as children, older adults or people with existing respiratory conditions.

All of New York State, including New York City, along with parts of New Jersey, was placed under an air quality advisory Thursday because of the smoke. Images from around the city showed the sun shrouded behind a thick haze as it set behind Manhattan’s Hudson Yards development, while in Chicago, residents sought relief along the Lake Michigan shoreline even as smoke settled over the lakefront. In Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey urged residents to monitor the latest health guidance from the city as conditions continued to shift, saying officials would continue tracking the situation and sharing updates as needed.

Forecasters said the smoke was expected to remain a significant problem through the end of the week and into the weekend. According to meteorologists, the latest wave of smoke settled unusually close to the ground because of a shift in the region’s weather pattern, in contrast to an earlier smoke plume earlier in the week that largely remained higher in the atmosphere and caused comparatively less severe surface-level pollution. As a result, air quality deteriorated sharply across the Northeast, Great Lakes and Midwest, with forecasters warning that poor conditions were likely to persist through Saturday as additional plumes of smoke continued arriving from the north.

Health officials have said the extreme smoke was expected to linger through Thursday evening across the Upper Midwest, including northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan, before continuing to affect the New York City area and other parts of the Northeast. Broader estimates from meteorologists tracking the smoke’s reach suggested that unhealthy air quality was affecting more than 120 million people across the Midwest and Northeast as of Thursday, underscoring the scale of the event compared with more localized smoke episodes in past summers.

Wildfire smoke of this kind carries fine particulate pollution known as PM2.5, tiny airborne particles capable of traveling deep into the lungs and, in some cases, entering the bloodstream when inhaled. Exposure to elevated PM2.5 levels has been linked to a range of health effects, including irritated eyes and airways, coughing, difficulty breathing, and worsened symptoms for people with asthma or other chronic respiratory or cardiovascular conditions. Health officials have urged residents in affected areas to limit time spent outdoors, avoid strenuous physical activity outside, keep windows closed, and run air conditioning or air purification systems on recirculating settings where possible to reduce the amount of smoke-laden outside air entering homes.

This week’s smoke event adds to what has already been a difficult wildfire season across parts of North America. Wildfires within the United States, mostly concentrated across the western half of the country, have burned more than 3.6 million acres so far this year, contributing to smoke and air quality concerns that had already affected parts of the West, the Plains and the Midwest earlier in the summer, independent of the thicker Canadian smoke now moving over the Great Lakes and Northeast.

Photographs and video captured across affected cities Thursday showed the extent of the smoke’s visual impact, including images of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor photographed from the Staten Island Ferry against a hazy, smoke-filled sky, and children continuing outdoor activities such as playing football in New York parks despite the deteriorating air quality around them. Similar scenes played out in Toronto, where a plane was photographed landing at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport amid smoke that had settled over the city a day earlier.

With hundreds of wildfires continuing to burn across Ontario and other parts of Canada, and forecasters warning that additional smoke plumes remained likely to drift south in the coming days, officials across the affected U.S. states said they would continue monitoring air quality conditions closely and issuing updated guidance as the smoke’s movement and intensity continued to shift through the remainder of the week and into the weekend.