'Incorrect' Listing Claimed Donald Trump Sold Mar-a-Lago Before Arrest

Zillow has said a listing that claimed to show Donald Trump had sold his signature Mar-a-Lago luxury residence in Florida was incorrect. The listing had claimed the resort was purchased on August 4—weeks before the former president voluntarily turned himself in at Fulton County jail in Georgia, where he was booked on 13 felony counts.

The listing has since been updated from "sold" to "off market." In a statement to Newsweek, Zillow said: "Zillow strives for accuracy on our site and if we become aware of inaccurate information, we will update it immediately. After an investigation, it appears that the information provided was incorrect. We've corrected the information on this property."

The Trump Organization also told Newsweek that the original claim was false. "Mar-a-Lago has absolutely not been sold nor will it ever be. This rumor is asinine," Eric Trump said in a statement.

A report by The Express said that the former president might have not really "sold" the property, but simply transferred its ownership to an organization owned by his son Donald Trump Jr., who has also since strongly denied the claim.

The original listing claimed that a 5,061-square-foot residence at 1100 S Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida, was sold on Friday, August 4 for $422,000,000.

While the home is not listed by Zillow as "Mar-a-Lago," the address corresponds to that of Trump's Palm Beach residence, and so does its size, roughly. The listing also mentioned that the last time that the property was sold was on April 6, 1995—the exact same date when the former president turned the residence, which he purchased in 1985 for $2 million, into The Mar-a-Lago Club. At the time, Zillow said the property was acquired for $12,000,000.

While Zillow does not provide details about who allegedly bought the property, the Express reported that website SunBiz shows that the current owner of Mar-a-Lago is a company called Mar-a-Lago Inc., owned by the former president's eldest son.

However, Donald Trump Jr. strongly denied the claims.

"I woke up this morning to numerous media reports claiming that my dad transferred ownership of Mar-A-Lago to me, and while anyone would love to be gifted one of the most beautiful properties in the entire world, it is nothing more than total and complete fake news," he told Breitbart News.

"A lot of media outlets should be embarrassed with themselves for running such a phony story, but we all know that most of them won't even retract their reports because they have no shame. SAD!"

Author and attorney Andrew Weissmann, co-host of the MSNBC podcast "Prosecuting Donald Trump," shared news of the alleged transfer of ownership of Mar-a-Lago on X, formerly known as Twitter, where he wrote: "Fraudulent transfer?"

But The Express wrote in its report that Trump's alleged transfer of his property to his son was not illegal—despite the fact that many on social media thought that the timing of the alleged sale was suspicious.

On Thursday, Trump was booked into Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia, on 13 felony counts linked to his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election in the state.

The former president has been indicted four times since the beginning of the year in separate federal and criminal cases, the latest of which was the one in Georgia.

He was indicted earlier this month by an Atlanta grand jury and accused of an election plot involving 18 others, including his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who are co-defendants in the case. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, saying that the case is part of a political "witch hunt" against him.

If found guilty in the Georgia case, Trump could be considered ineligible for re-election under the Constitution. But despite his legal troubles, he's still the favorite candidate for a majority of Republican voters, according to the latest polls.

As of August 24, he was polling an average of 51.6 percent of the Republican vote, according to FiveThirtyEight, and led the Republican primary polls by a huge margin, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis trailing him with 14.8 percent of the vote.

Update, 8/25/23 5:30 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include additional context.

Update, 8/25/23 10:55 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include a comment from Eric Trump. The headline was also updated.

Update, 8/25/23, 11:50 a.m. ET: This article was updated to reflect the listing apparently being updated from "sold" to "off market."

Update, 8/25/23, 1 p.m. ET: This article was updated with comments from Donald Trump Jr. to Breitbart News.

Update, 8/25/23, 1:30 p.m. ET: This article was updated with a statement from Zillow saying the listing was "incorrect." The headline was also updated.