Trump’s sister’s house has a buyer
The eight-bedroom house is located at 1125 S. Ocean Blvd.
A sales contract is pending on the oceanfront house owned by President Donald Trump’s sister, federal appeals Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, according to a listing in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service.
The eight-bedroom house at 1125 S. Ocean Blvd. immediately north of Mar-a-Lago’s Beach Club is listed at just under $23 million.
Barry has owned the traditional West Indies-style house since 2004, when she paid $11.5 million for it, property records show. With 10,455 total square feet, the two-story house stands on a half-acre lot immediately east of the coastal road. It was built in 1956 and faces about 194 feet of direct oceanfront. She owns it through a revocable trust.
The immediate neighborhood, which has long been home to members of the Trump family, is part of the area closed to through-traffic when the president visits Mar-a-Lago, which he uses as his winter White House.
In addition to Mar-a-Lago, the president maintains two smaller houses in the same area. One is on the corner of Woodbridge Road at 1094 S. Ocean Blvd. — next door to Mar-a-Lago — and the other is on an adjacent lot at 124 Woodbridge Road. Donald Trump transferred ownership of those properties from his name into corporate entities via deeds recorded a couple of weeks after his inauguration in 2017.
Trump’s other sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau, also owns a house on Woodbridge Road.
Barry is an attorney and an inactive senior circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The court is based in Philadelphia and serves Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands.
Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate listed Barry’s house for sale in early December. His listing describes its “commanding, in-the-sand ocean views” with a “fantastic Estate Section location.” The floor plan includes open entertaining areas with a formal living room, a sunroom, a family room and a library. Exterior features include an oceanfront balcony, patio and swimming pool.
Photos show rooms with expansive glass windows capturing wide sea views in many of the rooms. A note on the listing says that the sales broker “must accompany all showings.”
The house landed under contract March 19, according to MLS. Angle declined to comment and Barry couldn’t be reached. There’s no word yet on when the sale will close, the amount to change hands or the buyer.
President Trump once owned another house at 152 Woodbridge Road, a couple of lots west of his current holdings there. He sold it to Barry in 2002 for $1.7 million, courthouse records show. She and her son, David Desmond, combined that property with a lot next door, razed the two houses there and built a new residence, which Desmond occupied with his wife, Lisa. The Desmonds sold that property in 2015 as 160 Woodbridge Road for $8.9 million.
Trump also once co-owned Grau’s house with her, although he transferred its ownership solely to her in 2007. She owns it through a revocable trust.