The house where Pope Leo XIV grew, located in Dolton (Chicago, United States), will be sold to the highest bidder at an open -line auction until June. Originally, the property was quoted in the market for US $ 199,000.
According to him New York Times (NYT), the company in charge of selling the modest three -quarter residence will be the same as it sold in 2017, for millions of dollars, the childhood house of President Donald Trump.
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The current owner of the house “changed strategy last week when she realized that she had touched the real estate prize,” says the historic American newspaper. On May 8, the day of the choice of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new Pope of the Catholic Church, Paweł Radzik learned that in his small brick house the new pontiff had spent at least part of his childhood.
Immediately they began to rain offers on the property, which was published on the Internet. Along with their real estate corridor, Steve Budzik decided to eliminate the publication to think what would be the best business option after the choice of Cardinal Prevost.
Budzik told the NYT that “they seemed impossible to set a price for the house now that they knew their unique story,” then they decided to go to Paramount Realty, the real estate auction company known for selling Queens’s house in which Trump lived up to 4 years, for more than two million dollars in 2017.
The offers for the property have already begun and will end on June 18. “It is no longer a traditional sale. A property is no longer sold, much more than that is sold,” Budzik said.
“This is the best opportunity to sell it for the highest price and also to obtain the greatest amount of exposure,” he said. The auction, he added, is the best way for people around the world to offer for a piece of papal history, “including non -traditional buyers – according to the NYT – who could try to turn the house into a museum or an emblematic place.”
“Within a week it will be the most famous house on the planet. Which will be the best and highest bid, or who will be, is an unknown,” Budzik said.
Andrés Henríquez
I was born in Caracas in 1996. I am a writer for ACI Press and correspondent of EWTN since 2023. Since then, I cover events of the Catholic Church in Venezuela, Latin America and the world. I have more than 6 years of experience in bilingual media. In addition, in Venezuela I have worked from various fields for freedom and respect for fundamental rights in the country. I am a member of the Regnum Christi Federation since 2014.