Photos show Joe Biden’s 6,850-square-foot home in Delaware, where he is likely to move after the White House

• Joe Biden and Jill Biden own a 6,850-square-foot home in Greenville, Delaware, a suburb of Wilmington.

• Biden campaigned from his basement in 2020 and has hosted world leaders in his home as president.

• The home was the subject of a DOJ investigation into the mishandling of classified documents.

In 1996, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden bought 4 acres of land in Greenville, Delaware and built a 6,850 square foot lake house.

The Bidens also own a six-bedroom beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, but their home in Greenville remains their primary residence, where Biden is likely to return after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration this month.

Take a look inside the Bidens’ Delaware home.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Bidens’ primary residence is located in Greenville, Delaware, a suburb of Wilmington.

Located 4 miles from downtown Wilmington, Greenville is a quiet town with an average home price of $1.11 million, according to Realtor.com.

The Bidens originally purchased the 4-acre site for $350,000, The Wall Street Journal reported. Now it’s worth at least $2 million.

The home they built has three bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, according to Zillow.

Biden wrote in his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad,” that he considered taking out another mortgage on the house to support his son Beau Biden’s family during Beau’s cancer treatment.

Biden wrote it when he told the president Barack Obama of his plan, Obama said, “Don’t do it. I’ll give you the money.”

The house is located on the banks of a 10-hectare man-made pond.

Biden brought Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese out on the terrace overlooking the pond in September.

The home also has a swimming pool, an amenity Biden was known to enjoy in office vice president’s residence due to the US Naval Observatory.

Biden’s home was more accessible to the public while he served in the Senate.

In 2008, reporters from the Wilmington News Journal barricaded themselves in Biden’s home and played Frisbee on the lawn while they waited to see if he would be chosen as Barack Obama’s running mate.

When he became vice president and then president, the property was heavily guarded.

Secret Service members monitor the residence when Biden visits.

During his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden held virtual events from his basement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shelves in the background of Biden’s video call appeared to hold books, photos and other memorabilia.

As president, he has hosted world leaders such as the prime ministers of Australia, Japan and India at his Delaware residence.

Biden made frequent trips home to Delaware while serving in the White House, spending about half of his weekends in his home state.

The residence has a home office where Biden has worked while serving as president and vice president.

As a retiring U.S. senator, Biden bought the desk he used in the Senate to furnish his home.

The office has enough space to host meetings with dignitaries and staff.

The spacious office has wood paneling and plush leather armchairs.

Biden’s home became the subject of a Justice Department investigation into the misuse of classified documents.

In November and December 2022, Biden’s lawyers discovered classified documents in the president’s former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC and in his garage and turned them over to the National Archives. In January 2023, US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed US Attorney General Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate the mishandling of classified information.

The The Justice Department searched Biden’s home and recovered six classified documents. Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, said the search was voluntary and that some of the items dated back to Biden’s time in the Senate and as vice president.

Hur interviewed Biden in October 2023 about his storage of classified material. The prints showed Biden describing himself as a “frustrated architect” and spending much of the time talking about how he designed and decorated his home.

“To try to convince me not to run for the Senate for the 19th time, my wife said, ‘Look, you’re not running, I’ll pay for architecture school for you,'” Biden told Hur.

Biden also shared how he “set up a theater” in his house to conduct virtual events and televised appearances in 2020 because “we were campaigning out of our basement.”

After a year-long investigation, Hur recommended against charging the president with any crime, describing Biden as a “likable, well-meaning, older man with a bad memory.” Hur’s report was derided by Democrats and Republicans alike, but it foreshadowed Biden’s poor debate performance, which ultimately led to him drops out of the presidential election in 2024.

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