Where they live: Houses of the presidential candidates

Excellent, fun item at Mother Jones today: a photo gallery of the houses owned by presidential candidates. At left is Mitt Romney's $3 million New Hampshire cottage. (When I was growing up in New England, you could buy northern New Hampshire for $3 million).

But I digress. It's worth paging through the homes  -- only Mike Huckabee's is valued at less than $1 million. I don't believe the prices/values are up to date. Mother Jones lists Hillary Clinton's home at "$1.7 million in 1999."  Zillow.com, through the miracle of its Zestimates, values the Clinton home today at $3.6 million.  The priciest of the bunch -- according to Mother Jones' reporting -- is John Edwards' 21,000-sq.-ft. estate in Chapel Hill, NC, valued at $5.4 million.  You could have some fun naming that house. "Two Americas" comes to mind, because you could practically fit them both inside the house.

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Photo Credit: Mother Jones

Comments

[Cal]

Yesterdays DQ report was the worst ever and this is what you are talking about? ;-)

http://www.dqnews.com/RRSCA0108.shtm

[caliguy2699]

Can we speculate that the black cars parked outside Hillary's place are Secret Service?

[William Jones]

John Edwards has a squash court in his own home, for crying out loud. How I envy that - no calling to get a court time, or driving to a club somewhere. The only other person I can think of who has a squash court in his own house is Jeff Berg of ICM.

If you've never played the game, it's a great way to burn calories and get (or stay) in shape.

[Pat]

Just one more thing that shows how out of touch politicians are with regular people.

[Sheryl]

I've seen the pictures of the Edwards house before. It's why I have absolutely NO belief that he means anything he says--he's just arguing a case. Well, that and the fact that he made all the money to buy that little plantation of his as an attorney working for CONTINGENCY FEES.

You people wonder why health care is so expensive?

John Edwards and all the contingency fee lawyers just like him!!!!!

[Monkey Under The GPs Microscope]

I wonder what kind of a house Dennis Kucinich has.

[CD]

If one gets a president to sleep overnight at one's house, will the price of the house double???

[ProblemWithCaring]

The Obamas live in a $1.6 million crib STILL is in a danger zone near the University of Chicago. But before he was a super-star presidential hopeful buying real esate on the cheap from campaign donors (shhhhhh: http://tinyurl.com/2braje ), he was middle-class Senator in a small condo in the SOUTH- south side 'hood.

So it actually shows how IN TOUCH some of the candidates are to the issues people in California care about: housing prices are so inflated, one has to do a shady kickback deal to afford a overpriced Mcmansion in the ghetto....sounds like LA to me.

[Nancy]

This doesn't include Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul. Hardly complete.

[Zacksmom]

Vote for Huckabee he is the most in touch with America. Come on people his home is valued at a little over 500K because it is in Arkansas!

[Tombstone Realty]

Cottage huh.

I think there are enough deck chairs out there to seat the Supreme Court....

Being that the Obamas' house is almost comparable in price to half of LA's housing, I'd say they are more 'with it' than Clinton (and her Area 51 vans) or Edwards (looks like he slashed and burned half the Amazon for that one).

Obama's house actually looks a bit "dingy" too. Like a big old house noone wanted because it was big and old.

Anyway, he grew up poor, and just paid off his school loans. So did I - so he probably knows the joy of finding a $5 bill on the street and being able to bring it home to mom.