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. ||||| Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images Construction continues on the One57 luxury condominium building in Manhattan on Jan. 7, 2013 
 
 Think you’re spoiling your child? Think again. A CCTV story is making international headlines after a New York City real estate agent revealed that a Chinese mother purchased a $6.5 million apartment for her toddler. 
 
 Sotheby’s senior vice president Kevin Brown told China’s CCTV that he showed apartments all over Manhattan to the buyer, who is remaining anonymous: 
 
 And she said, well, her daughter was going to go to Columbia, or NYU, or maybe Harvard, and so she needed to be in the center of the city and that was why she was picking this one particular apartment. So I said: ‘Oh, how old is your daughter?’ And she said: ‘Well, she’s 2’. And I was just shocked. 
 
 The woman ended up buying in the luxury Manhattan building One57. The 90-story building, which is still unfinished, was designed by a Pritzker Prize–winning architect and will have a library with a pool table and 7.3-m aquarium, a private concert hall and a “pet washroom” along with an enviable location on 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. 
 
 (MORE: Report: China Buys 25% of the World’s Luxury Goods) 
 
 While some may scoff at the over-the-top purchase, the anonymous mother could be a very savvy real estate investor. According to Brown, less than two years after her purchase at One57, the condo’s value has already shot up to $8.9 million. 
 
 In China, the purchase has tongues wagging about where the money could have come from. According to the Telegraph, comments left on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, suggested that the woman must have been related to a corrupt government official. In a country where income inequality is widening and anger at the extravagant ways of Communist Party officials is growing, the country’s new President Xi Jinping has made combating corruption and official abuse of power a priority. 
 
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– 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.)