PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.
That means DeSantis effectively lost $232,000 by selling it just a year before the pandemic caused housing prices to surge across the United States.
DeSantis, 43, lives with his wife and children in the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee and does not currently own any property, according to government financial disclosure paperwork he submitted a few months ago.
The governor apparently put proceeds from that home’s sale in a conservative financial account with USAA that grew in value during the past year from $205,000 to $235,000 — about a 14% increase, records showed.
The governor could have used the money: He is hardly wealthy by the standards of political figures with such national prominence.