Now that he’s out of the White House, where does Joe Biden live? The 46th US president has had a lifelong love of real estate, though he hasn’t always had the financial means to express it. “Even as a kid in high school I’d been seduced by real estate,” Biden wrote in his 2007 biography, Promises to Keep. His “idea of Saturday fun” when he was married to his first wife, Neilia, was to “drive around the Wilmington area scouting open houses, houses for sale, land where we could build,” he added. Reportedly, the former Delaware senator even carried issues of Architectural Digest on his daily commute. At one point, he was struggling to pay off three mortgages and a loan from his father-in-law to indulge his house habit. Eventually, Biden slowed down in favor of stability. Since the late 1990s, the Biden family has kept a Wilmington, Delaware, property as their main house. After his vice presidency, Biden was able to make more money through speeches and book deals, in turn allowing him to invest in a long-coveted vacation home.Read on to discover more about President Biden’s real estate portfolio.DuPont mansionIn 1974, the Scranton, Pennsylvania, native paid $185,000 for a rundown 1930s mansion in Wilmington, Delaware, once owned by the prominent DuPont family. Three years later, he married Jill Biden (née Jacobs), and she joined him at the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home, which he nicknamed the Station. The manse served as campaign headquarters during Biden’s 1988 presidential run. The 10,000-square-foot Colonial needed extensive repair, so he sunk ample time and money into renovations. “Whatever he gets, the house eats for breakfast. That house loves cash,” wrote journalist Richard Ben Cramer in his book about the 1988 presidential race, What It Takes.Biden sold the two-acre property for $1.2 million in 1996.“The Lake House”The Bidens bought a four-acre Wilmington plot for $350,000 shortly after offloading their DuPont mansion, then custom-built a 6,850-square-foot manse on the property overlooking a man-made lake built by the DuPonts. According to Delaware Online, Biden designed the home himself. The Colonial-style house, which was completed in 1998, has three bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms and is located in the coveted Greenville neighborhood, also known as Château Country for its concentration of stately Colonials. Reportedly, the estate also hosts a cottage that Biden rented out to the Secret Service for $2,200 a month while he was vice president. Aerial photos reveal that the dwelling, which the Bidens call the Lake House, also boasts a spacious backyard pool.This is still the family’s primary residence.1 Observatory CircleFormer Vice President Kamala Harris and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside of the Vice President’s residence in 2021.Photo: Samuel Corum/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images