The Connecticut home where Trump lived with his ex-wife Ivana sells for a record $31.5M
Donald Trump’s former Greenwich, Conn., estate has finally found a buyer after bouncing on and off the market for more than a decade.The sprawling waterfront property, which was once priced as high as $54 million, sold for $31.5 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Greenwich’s luxury housing market has been struggling with low inventory, and high-end properties have been in short supply.According to Redfin, the median sale price for homes in the area climbed 13.9% year-over-year, reaching $2.3 million in August, making this latest sale the priciest in Greenwich this year.The mansion, a Georgian-style home with views of the Long Island Sound, was owned by Trump and his now-late ex-wife, Ivana Trump, during the 1980s.
After their divorce in 1990, Ivana held on to the estate, raising their children there until she sold it to financier Robert Steinberg and his wife, Suzanne, in 1998 for $15 million.The Steinbergs embarked on a two-year renovation project, removing some of the home’s more opulent finishes left by the Trumps.Robert Steinberg confirmed the sale to the Journal, but kept tight-lipped about the identity of the buyer.
Joseph Barbieri, of Sotheby’s International Realty, who represented the buyer, could not comment on the new owners either.However, he told The Post that the home sold to a prominent family.
Barbieri added that the same house manager of the home during the Steinbergs’ ownership was also the house manager during that of the Trump family.“The house manager stayed on with the current owners for the last 25 years.
He had the nicest things to say about the family,” Barbieri said.“He is telling me stories about how Donald would get up at 4 in the morning, read the paper, and have his coffee and is ready to go by 5:30 in the morning consistently.
He doesn’t sleep,” Barbieri said with a laugh.The home, despite being delisted last summer, continued to attract interest from prospective buyers.
Barbieri noted that the es...