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New York governor Andrew Cuomo today (Oct. 21) signed into law some of the toughest restrictions on short-term apartment rentals in the country, a decision with dire implications for Airbnb. 
  
 Under the new rules, which were passed by the state legislature this summer, it is illegal for residents of “Class A” multiple dwellings in New York City—buildings designed for three or more families—to advertise their full home for rent for less than 30 days. (Renting a shared or spare room is perfectly fine). Violators will be fined $1,000 for the first offense, $5,000 for the second, and $7,500 for the third. 
  
 The legislation was fought bitterly by Airbnb, the home-sharing company valued at $30 billion. In July, Airbnb poured $1 million into Stronger Neighborhoods, a political action committee created to advocate for its peer-to-peer rentals. The company last month also held a summit for its New York City hosts, where it handed out postcards and encouraged them to write the governor a message “about why you love hosting.” 
  
 It was already illegal in New York City to rent out an entire apartment for less than 30 days, but Airbnb built the city into its biggest US market largely by ignoring the rules. The company has repeatedly characterized New York’s illegal hotel law as outdated and refused to help regulators police its bookings. The bill signed today by Cuomo is a workaround. Rather than having to figure out when and where illegal rentals are happening, regulators can now simply watch Airbnb’s site for any listings that break the rules. 
  
 “This is an issue that was given careful, deliberate consideration, but ultimately these activities are already expressly prohibited by law,” Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said. 
  
 The bill sets a devastating precedent for Airbnb, whose business is under siege across the US. This June, Airbnb sued its hometown of San Francisco for fining hosts who have failed to comply with regulations that took effect last year, which Airbnb itself helped get passed. In Los Angeles, the city council is moving toward new rules that would legalize some rentals of less than 30 days but also require Airbnb to turn over significant amounts of data. In Miami, Airbnb has spent close to $1 million on a TV ad campaign amid a city crackdown on short-term rentals that has imposed $1.6 million in fines over the last five months. 
  
 Airbnb had threatened over the summer to sue should the bill become law, and the company said today it had made good on that, filing claims against the city of New York and state attorney general Eric Schneiderman in federal court. The company has requested a temporary restraining order against the implementation of the bill as well as a formal injunction from a judge. 
  
 “In typical fashion, Albany back-room dealing rewarded a special interest—the price-gouging hotel industry—and ignored the voices of tens of thousands of New Yorkers,” Josh Meltzer, Airbnb’s head of public policy for New York, said in an emailed statement. “We will continue to fight for a smart policy solution that works for the the people, not the powerful.” 
  
 Airbnb’s stubborn refusal to comply with apartment regulations in New York has alienated a vast array of special interests, including the hotel industry and unions, affordable housing advocates, and tenants’ rights groups. Those groups cheered the governor’s decision to sign the bill. 
  
 “Airbnb thought they could come into New York, break our laws, and bully our leaders like Governor Cuomo and legislators, who have stood up to protect the affordable housing supply for millions of New Yorkers,” Peter Ward, president of the powerful New York Hotel Trades Council, said in a statement. “Today, we see they were wrong.” 
  
 Cuomo had until Oct. 29 to sign the bill after it was sent to his desk earlier this week. On Oct. 19, Airbnb proposed cracking down on its own hosts in New York City in a last-ditch attempt to mitigate its situation. In a column in the New York Daily News, the company said it would limit hosts in the city’s five boroughs to renting a single home, a proposal designed to protect the residential housing supply and deter property owners from running illegal hotels. Airbnb also offered to create a hotline for neighbors, who have complained in the past that Airbnb guests disrupt the “quiet enjoyment” of their apartments. 
  
 But rather than help Airbnb, the proposals only rankled its political opponents more, who said the company had taken its ideas straight to the press instead of trying to negotiate in good faith. 
  
 “In spite of Airbnb’s misleading statements to the contrary, those who want to legally use sites like Airbnb—for example by renting out a spare room while they remain in residence—are still free to do so, as they have always been,” Linda Rosenthal, the assembly member who sponsored the bill, said today. “Those who are breaking our laws and disrupting their neighbors and communities will now face stiffer penalties.” ||||| The house on Wareham Place has become another curiosity in the vast orbit of properties connected to Mr. Trump, even though he last lived in the five-bedroom home, built by his father, Fred C. Trump, when he was 4. The house’s intrigue lies not just in the price it fetched in an auction by Paramount Realty USA — $2.14 million, more than double the price of comparable houses in the area — but also in the mystery surrounding the buyer. She remains unknown, shrouded behind the limited liability company. 
  
 A thin trail of documents associated with the sale led first to a second-story office on Main Street in Flushing, Queens, of Michael X. Tang, a lawyer who represents Trump Birth House. In the cramped and bustling office, which, according to its website, specializes in facilitating Chinese purchases of American real estate, a woman at a desk welcomed visitors. 
  
 “Oh, about the Trump house,” she said. She continued: Mr. Tang declined to comment. 
  
 Documents show that Mr. Tang was also the lawyer for a seemingly unrelated transaction on a palatial home in Old Westbury, N.Y., which sold for more than $3.6 million in 2014 to a person named Jiying Wei. The redbrick mansion, tucked at the end of a cul-de-sac and abutted by a private tennis court, is a far cry from the modest butter-colored childhood home of Mr. Trump. But, according to a person with knowledge of the sale, the mansion’s owner is a relative of the woman from China who bought the Trump family home. 
  
 Standing in the collonaded entryway of her home a few doors down in Old Westbury, a neighbor, who declined to give her name for privacy reasons, deepened the mystery: The only person who lives in the mansion, she said, is the family’s son, a local college student; the rest of the family lives in China. 
  
 The trail dead-ended at the cul-de-sac: The house was empty and the owner could not be reached. 
  
 “I did have some expectation that the purchaser would be a huge Trump supporter from within America,” Misha Haghani, principal of Paramount Realty USA, said of the Jamaica Estates home. He declined to reveal the identity of the buyer. “But it is entirely possible that the purchaser is a huge Trump supporter from outside of America,” he said. ||||| The house at 85-15 Wareham Place, where Donald Trump lived as a boy, was sold for $2.14 million last week. View Full Caption Paul Brainard 
  
 QUEENS — A real estate mogul who bought President Donald Trump’s boyhood home in the affluent Jamaica Estates neighborhood for $1.39 million in December flipped it at an auction for three-quarters of a million dollars more than what he paid, auctioneers said Monday. 
  
 Manhattan real estate investor Michael Davis sold the property at 85-15 Wareham Place — where Trump was born and lived until he was 4 — for $2.14 million last week. 
  
 “This is a house that would otherwise be worth about $1 million dollars, and we sold it for over twice that price," Misha Haghani, owner of Paramount Realty USA, which handled the auction, said Monday. 
  
 Some speculated ahead of the auction that the property which — as President Trump’s boyhood home might become an official historic site one day — would fetch as much as $10 million. 
  
 “This property is so much more than just real estate,” noted Haghani, who closed the sale last Thursday. "It’s the childhood home of the 45th President of the United States. That intangible value makes it a perfect example of why special properties are appropriately sold by auction, just like art is.” 
  
 Haghani declined to reveal the name of the buyer who snatched up the 2,500-square foot brick-and-stucco house, but he told DNAinfo New York that the name of the entity that purchased it is Trump Birth House LLC. 
  
 The five-bedroom Tudor which also features four-and-a-half bathrooms, a living room with a fireplace, a five-car driveway with a two-car garage, was auctioned in January after Davis bought from previous property owners, the Kestenbergs, who are restaurateurs in Manhattan. 
  
 Initially, the Kestenbergs listed the house on the market last July for $1.65 million, but then reduced the price twice, first to $1.399 million and later to $1.25 million, according to the property's listing broker Laffey Real Estate. 
  
 They then planned to sell the property at an auction last October — the night of the third debate between then candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — but postponed it at the last minute to give prospective buyers more time to see the home amid media attention surrounding the sale. 
  
 In December, however, they decided to sell it to Davis who carried out the original plan to auction it after the election. 
  
 The Kestenbergs, who purchased the house in 2008 for $782,500, sold it to Davis because they were getting divorced and were satisfied with the price offered by the buyer, Haghani told DNAinfo in December. 
  
 Donald Trump's father built the house in 1940. The family later moved to a larger house on nearby Midland Parkway. 
  
 Trump himself joked on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" last year that he was interested in the property. 
  
 "I wanna buy it, it's beautiful," he said. ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. |||||Summary:
– Someone has agreed to hand over $2.14 million for President Trump's childhood home in Queens—and an unnamed neighbor tells the New York Times she's witnessed suited-up people pulling up to the Jamaica Estates home in black luxury SUVs and speaking Chinese since the secretive deal went down. She says she wants to know why they're so keen on the president's boyhood residence, built by his father. "What do they want?" she muses. Although the LLC that bought the Tudor-style abode at auction is listed as "Trump Birth House," someone who's said to know details of the deal tells the Times the buyer behind the LLC is a Chinese woman. "Trump is a very popular kind of character in China," a New York real estate agent says, noting she's not surprised someone with ties to that country would purchase the home. DNAinfo documents the home's paper trail over the past decade or so: It was first purchased by a married couple in 2008 for close to $800,000, then sold to a real estate investor for nearly $1.4 million in December—meaning he made about three-quarters of a million dollars on his quick flip. The owner of the realty group that closed the deal last week says the lucrativeness of such a transaction is the "perfect example of why special properties are appropriately sold by auction, just like art is." Meanwhile, in Trump Tower, a woman who owns an apartment there was fined $1,000 by the city for advertising her 30th-floor digs for rent through Airbnb, Quartz reports. Lena Yelagina was hit with the penalty due to a recently passed NYC law barring ads that rent out a full apartment for fewer than 30 days. (There's been some grumbling about Melania Trump choosing to stick around NYC for now.)
Artikel: New York guvernör Andrew Cuomo idag (okt. 21) undertecknade några av de tuffaste restriktionerna för kortsiktiga hyresrätter i landet, ett beslut med ödesdigra konsekvenser för Airbnb. Enligt de nya reglerna, som antogs av delstatens lagstiftande församling i sommar, är det olagligt för invånare i “klass A” flera bostäder i New York City-byggnader avsedda för tre eller flera familjer-att annonsera sin fulla bostad för hyra för mindre än 30 dagar. (Att hyra ett delat eller extra rum är utmärkt). Brottslingar kommer att bötfällas 1 000 dollar för första brottet, 5 000 dollar för andra och 7 500 dollar för tredje. Lagstiftningen bekämpades bittert av Airbnb, hemdelningsbolaget värderat till 30 miljarder dollar. I juli hällde Airbnb 1 miljon dollar i Stronger Neighborhoods, en politisk aktionskommitté skapad för att förespråka sina peer-to-peer-uthyrningar. Företaget förra månaden höll också ett toppmöte för sina New York City värdar, där det delade ut vykort och uppmuntrade dem att skriva guvernören ett meddelande "om varför du älskar värdskap." Det var redan olagligt i New York att hyra ut en hel lägenhet för mindre än 30 dagar, men Airbnb byggde staden till sin största amerikanska marknad till stor del genom att ignorera reglerna. Företaget har vid upprepade tillfällen karakteriserat New Yorks olagliga hotellrätt som föråldrad och vägrat att hjälpa till med att övervaka sina bokningar. Lagförslaget som Cuomo skrev under idag är en lösning. I stället för att behöva räkna ut när och var olagliga hyror händer, kan tillsynsmyndigheterna nu helt enkelt titta på Airbnbs webbplats för alla listor som bryter mot reglerna. “Detta är en fråga som gavs noggrant, avsiktlig övervägande, men i slutändan dessa aktiviteter är redan uttryckligen förbjudet enligt lag,” Cuomo talesman Rich Azzopardi sade. Lagförslaget utgör ett förödande prejudikat för Airbnb, vars affärer är under belägring över hela USA. I juni stämde Airbnb sin hemstad San Francisco för bötfällningsvärdar som har misslyckats med att följa regler som trädde i kraft förra året, vilket Airbnb själv hjälpte till att få igenom. I Los Angeles rör sig stadsfullmäktige mot nya regler som skulle legalisera vissa hyror på mindre än 30 dagar men också kräva att Airbnb ska lämna över betydande mängder data. I Miami har Airbnb spenderat nära 1 miljon dollar på en TV-annonskampanj mitt i en stads repressalier mot kortsiktiga hyror som har ålagt 1,6 miljoner dollar i böter under de senaste fem månaderna. Airbnb hade hotat med att stämma om lagförslaget skulle bli lag, och företaget sade idag att det hade gjort gott på det, lämna in krav mot staden New York och statsåklagare Eric Schneiderman i federal domstol. Företaget har begärt ett tillfälligt besöksförbud mot genomförandet av propositionen samt ett formellt föreläggande från en domare. “På ett typiskt sätt, Albany back-room langing belönade ett särskilt intresse-prissättande hotellindustrin-och ignorerade rösterna från tiotusentals New York-bor,” Josh Meltzer, Airbnbs chef för den offentliga politiken för New York, sade i ett e-postmeddelande. “Vi kommer att fortsätta att kämpa för en smart politisk lösning som fungerar för folket, inte de mäktiga.” Airbnbs envisa vägran att följa lägenhetsregler i New York har alienerat ett stort antal specialintressen, inklusive hotellbranschen och fackföreningar, prisvärda bostadsförespråkare, och hyresgästers rättigheter grupper. Dessa grupper gladde sig åt guvernörens beslut att underteckna lagförslaget. “Airbnb trodde att de kunde komma in i New York, bryta våra lagar, och mobba våra ledare som guvernör Cuomo och lagstiftare, som har stått upp för att skydda den prisvärda bostadsförsörjningen för miljontals New York-bor,” Peter Ward, ordförande för den kraftfulla New York Hotel Trades Council, sade i ett uttalande. “I dag ser vi att de hade fel.” Cuomo hade fram till 29 oktober att underteckna räkningen efter att den skickades till hans skrivbord tidigare i veckan. Den 19 oktober föreslog Airbnb att de egna värdarna i New York skulle störtas i ett sista försök att mildra situationen. I en spalt i New York Daily News sade företaget att det skulle begränsa värdar i stadens fem stadsdelar till att hyra ett enda hem, ett förslag som var avsett att skydda bostadsförsörjningen och avskräcka fastighetsägare från att driva olagliga hotell. Airbnb erbjöd sig också att skapa en telefonjour för grannar, som tidigare har klagat över att Airbnb gäster stör den ”tysta njutningen” av sina lägenheter. Men snarare än att hjälpa Airbnb rangordnade förslagen bara dess politiska motståndare mer, som sade att företaget hade tagit sina idéer direkt till pressen istället för att försöka förhandla i god tro. — Trots Airbnbs vilseledande uttalanden om motsatsen är de som vill legalt använda platser som Airbnb – till exempel genom att hyra ut ett extra rum medan de är kvar i bostaden – fortfarande fria att göra det, som de alltid har gjort, sade Linda Rosenthal, församlingsmedlemmen som sponsrade lagförslaget, i dag. “De som bryter mot våra lagar och stör sina grannar och samhällen kommer nu att möta hårdare straff.” ”Huset på Wareham Place har blivit en annan nyfikenhet i den stora omloppsbana av fastigheter kopplade till Mr Trump, även om han senast bodde i fem sovrum hem, byggd av sin far, Fred C. Trump, när han var 4. Husets intriger ligger inte bara i det pris det fick ut på en auktion av Paramount Realty USA — 2,14 miljoner dollar, mer än dubbelt så mycket som priset på jämförbara hus i området — utan också i mysteriet kring köparen. Hon förblir okänd, höljd bakom aktiebolaget. Ett tunt spår av dokument i samband med försäljningen ledde först till ett andra-story kontor på Main Street i Flushing, Queens, av Michael X. Tang, en advokat som representerar Trump Birth House. I det trånga och livliga kontoret, som enligt sin hemsida är specialiserat på att underlätta kinesiska köp av amerikanska fastigheter, välkomnade en kvinna vid ett skrivbord besökare. — Å, om Trump-huset, sade hon. Hon fortsatte: Mr Tang avböjde att kommentera. Dokument visar att Mr Tang också var advokat för en till synes obesläktad transaktion på ett palatshem i Old Westbury, N.Y., som 2014 sålde för mer än 3,6 miljoner dollar till en person vid namn Jiying Wei. Redbrick herrgård, instoppad i slutet av en cul-de-sac och av en privat tennisbana, är ett långt rop från den blygsamma smörfärgade barndomshemmet Mr Trump. Men enligt en person med kunskap om försäljningen är herrgårdens ägare en släkting till kvinnan från Kina som köpte familjen Trumps hem. En granne som stod i den sammansvetsade ingången till sitt hem några dörrar ner i Old Westbury, och som avböjde att uppge sitt namn av sekretessskäl, fördjupade mysteriet: Den enda person som bor i herrgården, sade hon, är familjens son, en lokal collegestudent; resten av familjen bor i Kina. Efterleden återvändsgränd vid cul-de-sac: Huset stod tomt och ägaren kunde inte nås. “Jag hade vissa förväntningar på att köparen skulle vara en stor Trump supporter från inom Amerika,” Misha Haghani, rektor för Paramount Realty USA, sade om Jamaica Estates hem. Han vägrade avslöja köparens identitet. “Men det är helt möjligt att köparen är en stor Trump supporter från utanför Amerika,” sade han. Huset på 85-15 Wareham Place, där Donald Trump bodde som pojke, såldes för 2,14 miljoner dollar förra veckan. View Full Caption Paul Brainard QUEENS — En fastighetsmogul som köpte president Donald Trump pojkhus i rika Jamaica Estates grannskap för $ 1,39 miljoner i december vände det på en auktion för tre fjärdedelar av en miljon dollar mer än vad han betalade, auktionsförrättare sade måndag. Manhattan fastighetsinvesterare Michael Davis sålde fastigheten på 85-15 Wareham Place — där Trump föddes och bodde tills han var 4 — för $2,14 miljoner förra veckan. — Detta är ett hus, som annars skulle vara värt omkring 1 miljon dollar, och vi sålde det för över dubbelt så mycket, sade Misha Haghani, ägare av Paramount Realty USA, som skötte auktionen, måndagen. Somliga spekulerade inför auktionen att egendomen som — som president Trumps pojkhem en dag kunde bli en officiell historisk plats — skulle hämta så mycket som 10 miljoner dollar. — Den här fastigheten är så mycket mer än bara fastigheter, konstaterade Haghani, som lade ner försäljningen i torsdags. "Det är barndomshemmet för USA:s 45:e president. Det immateriella värdet gör det till ett perfekt exempel på varför speciella fastigheter säljs på lämpligt sätt genom auktion, precis som konst är.” Haghani avböjde att avslöja namnet på köparen som ryckte upp den 2.500 kvadratfot tegel-och-stucco hus, men han berättade DNAinfo New York att namnet på den enhet som köpte det är Trump Birth House LLC. De fem sovrum Tudor som också har fyra och ett halvt badrum, ett vardagsrum med en öppen spis, en fem-bils uppfart med en två-bils garage, auktionerades ut i januari efter Davis köpte från tidigare fastighetsägare, Kestenbergs, som är krögare på Manhattan. Inledningsvis listade Kestenbergs huset på marknaden i juli förra året för 1,65 miljoner dollar, men sänkte sedan priset två gånger, först till 1,399 miljoner dollar och senare till 1,25 miljoner dollar, enligt fastighetens börsmäklare Laffey Real Estate. De planerade sedan att sälja fastigheten på en auktion i oktober förra året – kvällen för den tredje debatten mellan dåvarande kandidaterna Donald Trump och Hillary Clinton – men sköt upp den i sista minuten för att ge potentiella köpare mer tid att se hemmet mitt i media uppmärksamhet kring försäljningen. I december beslutade man dock att sälja den till Davis som genomförde den ursprungliga planen att auktionera ut den efter valet. Familjen Kestenberg, som köpte huset 2008 för 782,500 dollar, sålde det till Davis eftersom de skulle skilja sig och var nöjda med priset som köparen erbjöd, berättade Haghani för DNAinfo i december. Donald Trumps far byggde huset 1940. Familjen flyttade senare till ett större hus på närbelägna Midland Parkway. Trump skämtade själv på "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" förra året att han var intresserad av fastigheten. "Jag vill köpa den, den är vacker", sa han. ••• Fokuserade kryp är samlingar av ofta uppdaterade webbkrypdata från smala (i motsats till breda eller breda) webbkryp, ofta fokuserade på en enda domän eller underdomän. ••••••••••••••••••••••
Article: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo today (Oct. 21) signed some of the toughest restrictions on short-term rental rights in the country, a decision with dire consequences for Airbnb. Under the new rules, adopted by the state legislature this summer, it is illegal for residents of “Class A” several residences in New York City buildings intended for three or more families-to advertise their full residence for rent for less than 30 days. (To rent a shared or extra room is excellent). Criminals will be fined $1,000 for the first crime, $5,000 for the second and $7,500 for the third. The legislation was bitterly fought by Airbnb, the home-sharing company valued at $30 billion. In July, Airbnb poured $1 million into Stronger Neighborhoods, a political action committee created to advocate for its peer-to-peer rentals. The company also held a summit for its New York City hosts last month, where it distributed postcards and encouraged them to write the governor a message "about why you love hosting." It was already illegal in New York City to rent out an entire apartment for less than 30 days, but Airbnb built the city to its largest American market largely by ignoring the rules. The company has repeatedly characterized New York's illegal hotel law as obsolete and refused to help monitor its bookings. The bill signed by Cuomo today is a solution. Instead of having to figure out when and where illegal rentals are happening, regulators can now simply look at Airbnb's website for any list that violates the rules. “This is an issue that was given careful, deliberate consideration, but ultimately these activities are already explicitly prohibited by law,” Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said. The bill sets a devastating precedent for Airbnb, whose business is under siege across the United States. In June, Airbnb sued his hometown of San Francisco for fine hosts who have failed to comply with rules that came into force last year, which Airbnb himself helped get through. In Los Angeles, the city council is moving towards new rules that would legalize some rents in less than 30 days but also require Airbnb to hand over significant amounts of data. In Miami, Airbnb has spent nearly $1 million on a television ad campaign amidst a city's reprisals against short-term rents that have imposed a $1.6 million fine over the past five months. Airbnb had threatened to sue if the bill was going to become law, and the company said today it had done good at it, filing claims against the city of New York and state attorney Eric Schneiderman in federal court. The company has requested a temporary restraining order against the implementation of the bill as well as a formal injunction from a judge. “In a typical way, Albany back-room selling rewarded a particular interest-priced hotel industry—and ignored the voices of tens of thousands of New Yorkers,” Josh Meltzer, Airbnb’s head of public policy for New York City, said in an email. “We will continue to fight for a smart political solution that works for the people, not the powerful.” Airbnb’s stubborn refusal to comply with apartment rules in New York City has alienated a large number of special interests including the hotel industry and trade unions, affordable housing advocates, and tenant rights groups. These groups rejoiced in the governor's decision to sign the bill. “Airbnb believed they could enter New York, break our laws, and bully our leaders as Governor Cuomo and legislators, who have stood up to protect the affordable housing supply for millions of New Yorkers,” Peter Ward, president of the powerful New York Hotel Trades Council, said in a statement. “Today we see that they were wrong.” Cuomo had until October 29 to sign the bill after it was sent to his desk earlier this week. On October 19, Airbnb proposed that its own hosts in New York City be overthrown in a final attempt to mitigate the situation. In a column of the New York Daily News, the company said it would limit hosts in the city's five neighborhoods to renting a single home, a proposal intended to protect housing supply and deter property owners from operating illegal hotels. Airbnb also offered to create a hotline for neighbors, who have previously complained that Airbnb guests are disrupting the ‘quiet pleasure’ of their apartments. However, rather than helping Airbnb, the proposals only ranked its political opponents more, who said the company had taken its ideas directly to the press instead of trying to negotiate in good faith. “Despite Airbnb’s misleading statements to the contrary, those who want to legally use places like Airbnb – for example by renting out an extra room while remaining in the residence – are still free to do so, as they have always done,” said Linda Rosenthal, the parish member who sponsored the bill, today. “Those who violate our laws and disrupt their neighbors and communities will now face tougher penalties.” “The house at Wareham Place has become another curiosity in the large orbit of properties linked to Mr. Trump, although he last lived in five bedroom homes, built by his father, Fred C. Trump, when he was 4. The house’s intrigue lies not only in the price it received at an auction of Paramount Realty USA — $2.14 million, more than double the price of comparable houses in the area — but also in the mystery surrounding the buyer. She remains unknown, shrouded behind the limited company. A thin trace of documents associated with the sale first led to a second-story office on Main Street in Flushing, Queens, by Michael X. Tang, a lawyer representing Trump Birth House. In the crowded and lively office, which according to its website specializes in facilitating Chinese purchases of U.S. properties, a woman at a desk welcomed visitors. — Oh, about the Trump house, she said. She continued: Mr. Tang declined to comment. Documents show that Mr. Tang was also a lawyer for a seemingly unrelated transaction at a palace home in Old Westbury, N.Y., which in 2014 sold for more than $3.6 million to a person named Jiying Wei. Redbrick Manor, tucked in at the end of a cul-de-sac and of a private tennis court, is a long cry from the modest butter-colored childhood home of Mr. Trump. But according to a person with knowledge of the sale, the owner of the manor is a relative of the woman from China who bought the Trump family home. A neighbor standing in the tight entrance to his home some doors down in Old Westbury, and who declined to state his name for reasons of confidentiality, deepened the mystery: The only person living in the manor house, she said, is the family's son, a local college student; the rest of the family lives in China. The trail dead end at cul-de-sac: The house was empty and the owner could not be reached. “I had some expectations that the buyer would be a major Trump supporter from within America,” Misha Haghani, principal of Paramount Realty USA, said of Jamaica Estates home. He refused to reveal the buyer's identity. “But it’s quite possible that the buyer is a great Trump supporter from outside America,” he said. The 85-15 Wareham Place house, where Donald Trump lived as a boy, was sold for $2.14 million last week. View Full Caption Paul Brainard QUEENS — A real estate mogul who bought President Donald Trump boy's house in rich Jamaica Estates neighborhood for $1.39 million in December turned it on an auction for three quarters of a million dollars more than he paid, auctioneers said Monday. Manhattan real estate investor Michael Davis sold the property at 85-15 Wareham Place — where Trump was born and lived until he was 4 — for $2.14 million last week. “This is a house, which would otherwise be worth about $1 million, and we sold it for over twice as much,” said Misha Haghani, owner of Paramount Realty USA, who managed the auction, Monday. Some speculated before the auction that the property that — as President Trump's boys' home one day could become an official historic site — would fetch as much as $10 million. “This property is so much more than just real estate,” Haghani said, who closed the sale on Thursday. "It is the childhood home of the 45th President of the United States. The intangible value makes it a perfect example of why special properties are sold appropriately by auction, just as art is.” Haghani declined to reveal the name of the buyer who uprooted the 2,500 square-foot brick-and-stucco house, but he told DNAinfo New York that the name of the device that bought it is Trump Birth House LLC. The five bedrooms Tudor which also have four and a half bathrooms, a living room with a fireplace, a five-car driveway with a two-car garage, were auctioned out in January after Davis bought from former property owners, Kestenbergs, who are restaurateurs in Manhattan. Initially, Kestenbergs listed the house on the market last July for $1.65 million, but then lowered the price twice, first to $1.399 million and later to $1.25 million, according to the property's stockbroker Laffey Real Estate. They then planned to sell the property at an auction in October last year—the evening of the third debate between then candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton—but postponed it at the last minute to give potential buyers more time to see the home amidst media attention around the sale. However, in December it was decided to sell it to Davis who implemented the original plan to auction it out after the election. The Kestenberg family, who bought the house in 2008 for $782,500, sold it to Davis because they were getting divorced and were satisfied with the price offered by the buyer, Haghani told DNA info in December. Donald Trump's father built the house in 1940. The family later moved to a larger house on nearby Midland Parkway. 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– Någon har gått med på att lämna över $2,14 miljoner för president Trump barndomshem i Queens-och en icke namngiven granne berättar New York Times hon bevittnat anpassade människor som drar upp till Jamaica Estates hem i svarta lyx SUVs och talar kinesiska sedan den hemlighetsfulla affären gick ner. Hon säger att hon vill veta varför de är så intresserade av presidentens barndomsbostad, byggd av hans far. "Vad vill de?" Hon musar. Även om LLC som köpte Tudor-stil bostad på auktion är listad som "Trump Birth House", någon som sägs veta detaljer om affären berättar Times köparen bakom LLC är en kinesisk kvinna. "Trump är en mycket populär typ av karaktär i Kina", säger en fastighetsmäklare i New York, och konstaterar att hon inte är förvånad över att någon med band till det landet skulle köpa hemmet. DNAinfo dokumenterar hemmets pappersspår under det senaste decenniet eller så: Det köptes först av ett gift par i 2008 för nära $800 000, sedan säljs till en fastighetsinvesterare för nästan $ 1,4 miljoner i december-vilket betyder att han tjänade cirka tre fjärdedelar av en miljon dollar på sin snabba flip. Ägaren av den fastighetskoncern som avslutade affären förra veckan säger lukrativiteten i en sådan transaktion är det "perfekta exemplet på varför specialfastigheter på lämpligt sätt säljs genom auktion, precis som konst är." Under tiden, i Trump Tower, en kvinna som äger en lägenhet där bötfälldes $ 1000 av staden för reklam hennes 30: e våningen gräva för uthyrning genom Airbnb, Quartz rapporterar. Lena Yelagina drabbades av straffet på grund av en nyligen godkänd NYC lag som utestänger annonser som hyr ut en hel lägenhet i mindre än 30 dagar. (Det har varit en del knot om Melania Trump väljer att stanna kvar i NYC för tillfället.)
“Someone has agreed to hand over $2.14 million for President Trump’s childhood home in Queens-and an unnamed neighbor tells the New York Times she witnessed custom people pulling up to Jamaica Estates homes in black luxury SUVs and speaking Chinese since the secretive affair went down. She says she wants to know why they are so interested in the president's childhood residence, built by his father. "What do they want?" She's musing. Although LLC who bought Tudor-style residence at auction is listed as the "Trump Birth House", someone said to know details of the deal tells the Times buyer behind LLC is a Chinese woman. "Trump is a very popular type of character in China," says a real estate agent in New York City, noting that she is not surprised that someone with ties to that country would buy the home. DNAinfo documents the home's paper trail over the past decade or so: It was first bought by a married couple in 2008 for close to $800,000, then sold to a real estate investor for nearly $1.4 million in December—meaning he earned about three quarters of a million dollars on his quick flip. The owner of the real estate group that closed the deal last week says the lucrativeness of such a transaction is the "perfect example of why special estates are appropriately sold by auction, just as art is." Meanwhile, in Trump Tower, a woman who owns an apartment where was fined $1,000 by the city for advertising her 30th floor digging for rental through Airbnb, Quartz reports. Lena Yelagina suffered the penalty due to a recently approved NYC law that excludes advertisements that rent an entire apartment for less than 30 days. (There has been some murmuring if Melania Trump chooses to remain in NYC for the time being.)