Republican VP Nominee J.D. Vance Owns Homes in Two Left-Leaning Neighborhoods

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The senator’s residences in Cincinnati and Alexandria, Virginia, can be found in areas that overwhelmingly voted for President Biden
BY CASEY FARMER Follow
 | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JULY 19, 2024 | MANSION GLOBAL
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Sen. J.D. Vance, who was named the Republican vice presidential nominee this week, is the owner of at least two residences, one in his home state of Ohio, and one near Washington D.C.
Vance, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022, has called Ohio home for most of his life. He was born and raised in Middleton, located northeast of Cincinnati, and still calls the metro area home when he’s in the Buckeye State.
Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Vance received his law degree from Yale University, however, just a couple years after graduating, he began working as a venture capitalist in the Silicon Valley. In 2016, he published his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which was adapted into a feature film in 2020. 
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In 2018, Vance and his wife, Usha—a lawyer from San Diego, who resigned from her litigator position at Munger, Tolles & Olson after her husband’s VP nomination—bought a pre-Civil War home in Cincinnati for nearly $1.4 million, according to property records. They have since placed the ownership under a limited liability company. 
Built in 1858, the 6,405-square-foot home has five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, according to listing information. It sits on about 2.3 acres of land in East Walnut Hills, a neighborhood that skews liberal. In Vance’s ZIP code, 90% of voters voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, according to an election data map from The New York Times. A representative for Vance did not respond to a request for comment. 
Compared with other luxury homes that have sold over the last few years in East Walnut Hills—which sits along the Ohio River at the Kentucky border—Vance’s home is comparable in both size and price. 
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After being elected to the U.S. Senate, Vance, 39, bought a home in the Washington, D.C., area. He paid about $1.6 million for his Alexandria, Virginia, residence, which he bought through a limited liability company. 
Located in the left-leaning Del Ray neighborhood—nearly 81% of voters in Alexandria voted for Biden in 2020, according to data from The Wall Street Journal—the standalone home is about 2,500 square feet with five bedrooms and four bathrooms. 
Phyllis Patterson, an agent at TTR Sotheby’s International Realty, said Vance’s home falls within the average range for a typical updated home in Del Ray, which she said is about $1.5 million to $2 million. 
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“He’s sort of mid-range,” she said. “You might see a Del Ray house go as high as $2.2 [million], $2.3 [million] if it’s brand-new, torn-down, but he’s right in the middle of what we typically see.” 
Though Vance’s politics likely don’t align with the majority of his neighbors’, Patterson said Del Ray is a “very welcoming” and family-friendly community. She added that his home is walkable to much of the neighborhood’s offerings, an aspect that could appeal to a family with young children, like Vance’s. 
“The walkability is the best part of [Del Ray], and it’s sort of a health and wellness neighborhood as well,” Patterson said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re Republican or Democrat, it’s a total family neighborhood.”