loanDepot looks at the homes and mortgages of the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates

MIKE HUCKABEE
Blue Mountain Beach, Florida

Mike and Janet Huckabee’s three-story, custom-built home sits on the ‘sugar sand’ of Blue Mountain Beach. According to public documents filed prior to construction, the new house would feature 8,224 square feet of living space, and 2,969 square feet of porch and deck space. It fronts the Gulf of Mexico on the Florida panhandle. Walton County tax records show Huckabee has a $2.8 million mortgage on the custom-built home after paying off $250,000 for the land purchase. He also has a $375,000 mortgage on his vacation home in North Little Rock’s Shady Valley. 

Writer, futurist, explorer and transhumanist philosopher Zoltan Istvan lives in Mill Valley, California, about 14 miles north of San Francisco. His primary residence is a 1,527-square-foot two bedroom, one-bath cottage built in 1907. The home is in its original condition including original redwood interiors, Istvan said. He and his wife bought the home in 2013 for $650,000. They have a $552,500 mortgage from a ‘private individual.’

PIYUSH ‘BOBBY’ JINDAL
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Louisiana governor and native of Baton Rouge still lives in his hometown, but he and his wife and three children live in the state Governor’s Mansion, where they have resided since January 2008. The home was built in 1963 and has 12 bedrooms, 18 baths, two kitchens, one kitchenette, two dining rooms, one breakfast room and a receiving room for state affairs, among other features, according to the video home tour information in the source cited above and Wikipedia.

TERRY JONES
Gainesville, Florida

Terry Jones, pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, owns two homes on the same street in Gainesville, Florida. One is listed under his name and one has him and his wife, Sylvia R. Jones, on the records.

The home in his name only was purchased in 2007 for $187,500 with a $150,000, 30-year conventional mortgage. The 3,348-square-foot home has four bedrooms and two baths and was built in 1981. The property owned by the couple is a two-bedroom, one-bathroom, 1,860-square foot home built in 1979. They paid $95,000 via a 30-year, conventional loan. 

MARTIN O’MALLEY
Baltimore, Maryland

In preparation for leaving the Maryland governor’s mansion, Martin O’Malley and his wife Katie purchased a four-bedroom, four-bath, 2,726-square-foot Tudor house in Baltimore for their family, which includes four children. They paid $549,000 in 2014, with a 30-year first mortgage of $494,100. The two-story house was built in 1929 and has a stone fireplace, nine-foot ceilings and a cherry-paneled family room. 

GEORGE PATAKI
Garrison, New York

The former governor of New York lives in affluent Putnam County north of Long Island in the lower Hudson River Valley. He and his wife Elizabeth own a 14-bedroom, eight-and-one-half-bathroom house in Garrison, NY, that was built in 1893. They purchased it for $700,000 in 1986. In 2014, it assessed for $923,900 with a market value of $1.88 million. In May 2012, he refinanced $750,000. The first mortgage is a 15-year fixed at a rate of 3.75 percent.

Essex, New York

The Patakis also own a Dairy Farm in Essex, NY, which they bought in 2003. It has a 10-bedroom, five and one-half-bath house built in 1880. In 2014, it was assessed for $1.74 million. Records indicate there is no mortgage on the property.

RAND PAUL
Bowling Green, Kentucky

The senator from Kentucky and his wife, Kelley, live in a four-bedroom, three-bath home with 4,206 square feet of living area. The white house with gable roof was built in 1994, sits on a 1.99-acre lot, and is surrounded by lush trees. Its total value was assessed at $525,000 in 2014 with a land value of $257,500. In July 2014, they took a 10-year conventional mortgage out on the property for $172,500. 

DARRYL PERRY
Keene, New Hampshire

Perry is a co-founder of New Hampshire Liberty Party and is managing editor of Free Press Publications. A P.O. Box located in the city of Keene, New Hampshire, is the only available address we could find for him. Perry is funding his campaign with Bitcoin digital currency, according to his website.

RICK PERRY
Austin, Texas

James Richard ‘Rick’ Perry and his wife Anita spent the past 15 years living in the Texas Governor’s Mansion. When he left office this past January, the couple moved to a two-bedroom, two-bathroom townhome in Austin while their new home is being built in Round Top, a community about 70 miles from the state capitol in Fayette County.

MARCO RUBIO
West Miami, Florida

The Florida senator, his wife Janette, and their four children live in a four-bedroom, three-bath house in Miami. The single-family home has 2,581 square feet of living area and was built in 2005. They paid $550,000. It has a porch, brick patio and swimming pool. After listing the house in 2013 for $675,000, the Rubios didn’t end up selling. In June 2015, they refinanced to a 30-year mortgage for $604,000. In 2014, the total value of the home was assessed at $430,936.

BERNIE SANDERS
Burlington, Vermont

The Vermont senator and former mayor of Burlington and his wife, Jane O’Meara, have a four-bedroom, two-and-one-half bath home in Chittenden County. The colonial was built in 1981 and sold to the Sanders in 2009 for $405,000. They own the property outright.

 

Washington, D.C.

Sanders and his wife also own a townhouse in D.C. The 892-square-foot, one-bedroom, one and one-half bath home with brick exterior was built in 1890. They bought it for $488,999 in 2007. The first mortgage was a 30-year conventional ARM for $391,200 at 5.88 percent. Records indicate there is also a $73,350 second mortgage on the property.

RICHARD ‘RICK’ SANTORUM
Great Falls, Virginia

The former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania owns a 4,899-square-foot home in Great Falls, VA, with his wife Karen. It has four bedrooms and four and one half bathrooms and was built in 1977. In February 2010, they took out a 30-year, adjustable-rate mortgage for $999,950 at 4.88 percent. Records show subsequent 30-year ARM mortgages of $1 million at 4.0 percent in July 2010, $1 million at 4.0 percent in July 2011 and $958,500 at 2.88 percent in February 2013.

Verona, Pennsylvania

The Santorums also own a 2,071-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath Cape Cod-style home in Verona, Pennsylvania, which they bought in 1997 for $87,800. It assessed for $100,700 in 2015. There is no mortgage information.

DR. JILL STEIN
Lexington, Massachusetts

This physician was the nominee for the Green Party in the 2012 presidential election and ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. Stein and her husband Richard Rohrer own a 2,224-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath home in Lexington, Mass. They paid $480,000 for it in June 1995. They financed $280,000 with a conventional loan upon purchase and in August that same year, financed another $50,000 via another conventional loan. 

DONALD TRUMP
New York City, New York

Much has been written about The Donald’s homes in New York and Palm Beach, with pictorials on his penthouse in the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. He and his wife Melania live on the tower’s top three floors, which are lavishly decorated in 24K gold and marble. The home was designed by Angelo Donghia in a style reminiscent of King Louis XIV with painted ceilings, ornate columns, opulent furnishings and crystal chandeliers. Trump took out a $100 million mortgage on the entire tower in 2012.

Palm Beach, Florida

The Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach was initially a 126-room, 110,000-square-foot estate Trump bought for $10 million in 1985. After acquiring the property, he renovated it with 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, a 29-foot-long marble-top dining table, 12 fireplaces and three bomb shelters. He keeps private residential quarters at the club, which he calls his ‘home away from home.’ He transferred the property to Mar-A-Lago Club Inc. in 1995 with a $10 million mortgage.

JOHN KASICH
Westerville, Ohio

Ohio Gov. John Kasich and his wife Karen own a home on a golf course at the edge of a heavily wooded area in Westerville, Ohio. He is only the second governor since the mid-1950s to decline to live in the Governor’s Residence in Bexley. According to public records, the Kasiches bought the three-bedroom, two-and-one-half bath house in 1996 for $105,000 and financed $80,000 with a 10-year, fixed-rate loan. In September 2002, another loan was recorded – a 15-year, fixed-rate loan for $100,000. In 2005, the house was quit-claimed to the family’s trust. The home assessed for $758,600 in 2014.

Former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore and his wife Roxane own a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in Alexandria, VA. It has 1,251 square feet of living area and was built in 1978. Public records show the Gilmores bought the house in July 2003 for $420,000, not long after he left office. They have a 30-year first mortgage for $322,700 and a 20-year second for $55,250, which was also taken out at time of purchase.

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