Vice President JD Vance is reportedly selling his Northern Virginia home for $1.7 million.
Vance purchased the five-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom home for $1.5 million in 2022 after being elected to the United States Senate. The home is in Del Ray, an eclectic neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia.
Northern Virginia tends to be more liberal, and reactions to Vance’s presence in the neighborhood were mixed.
“I am not excited, but I am also not upset. I mean, he’s a human being with money who enjoys Del Ray. If anything, it reveals far more about the neighborhood than it does about JD Vance,” a resident told FOX 5 in 2024.
Another resident told the outlet that “everybody has a right to live wherever they want to live, and as long as he’s a kind and contributing member of the community, then I’m glad he’s here.”
That patience was tested in the run-up to the 2024 election, when the Judy Lowe Neighborhood Park near his home was barricaded for his safety, according to FOX 5.
Someone scribbled “Harris 24” and “not going back” on the barricades surrounding Vance’s house.
Another demonstrator yarn-bombed a tree in his yard with a knitted sign reading “respect our rights,” and there were multiple protests near his house.
“I’m not the only person who was sort of baffled and, to be honest, a bit dismayed that someone who had so vocally expressed contempt for the kinds of people who live here and the kind of values that we hold had decided to be our neighbor,” the woman who was protesting the yarn told The Washingtonian.
“Knowing that this person has been really publicly antagonistic to LGBTQ people, to immigrants, to women’s rights — it felt appropriate to publicly declare what we stand for in this community.”
Since the election, Vance and his family have relocated to the vice president’s residence at 1 Observatory Circle in Washington, D.C.
According to the White House, the vice president’s residence is located at the United States Naval Observatory and was previously the home of the observatory’s superintendent.
Vance is originally from Middletown, Ohio, and after the success of his book Hillbilly Elegy and the subsequent Ron Howard adaptation, he purchased a historic home in Cincinnati in 2018.
According to real estate website Redfin, that house has five bedrooms and sits on 2.29 acres with a view of the Ohio River. At the time, Vance paid slightly more than $1.4 million for the house.
A few years prior, Vance purchased a row house in Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and has since rented it out. A resident who rented the house told The Washington Post in July 2024 that she thought the Vances were good landlords.
“I love this house. I adore this block. “I want to stay here for a long time,” the renter told the newspaper. “So I hope to be a good tenant. And I have wonderful landlords—Usha is fantastic.”
