{"id":72341,"date":"2026-06-29T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=72341"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:47:04","slug":"desantis-will-not-confirm-or-deny-a-report-that-he-plans-to-buy-a-home-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/06\/29\/desantis-will-not-confirm-or-deny-a-report-that-he-plans-to-buy-a-home-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis will not confirm or deny a report that he plans to buy a home in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recent reports from political insiders indicate that Governor Ron DeSantis has placed an offer on a home in Polk County<\/strong>, specifically within Mountain Lake<\/strong>, an exclusive gated historic enclave located in Lake Wales near the foot of Iron Mountain.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to reporting by Florida Politics<\/em>, the governor was nominated for membership at the private club by former state Senator J.D. Alexander, with the home purchase closing expected in September 2026.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither Governor DeSantis nor his press office has explicitly issued a formal public confirmation or denial statement regarding the real estate transaction. However, the move lines up with his expected post-gubernatorial transition planning as his final term winds down and the family looks to establish a permanent primary residence outside of the Governor\u2019s Mansion in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent reports from political insiders indicate that Governor Ron DeSantis has placed an offer on a home in Polk County, specifically within Mountain Lake, an exclusive gated historic enclave located… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyMlwvMDNcL2Rlc2FudGlzLTEyMy5qcGc_Zml0PTEwMjQlMkM1NzYmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJEZVNhbnRpcyB3aWxsIG5vdCBjb25maXJtIG9yIGRlbnkgYSByZXBvcnQgdGhhdCBoZSBwbGFucyB0byBidXkgYSBob21lIGluIFBvbGsgQ291bnR5IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.E5BrVvtTsoQBy_KKm3CRKhQrzAznovyo0HMqHM9xR2UMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyMlwvMDNcL2Rlc2FudGlzLTEyMy5qcGc_Zml0PTEwMjQlMkM1NzYmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJEZVNhbnRpcyB3aWxsIG5vdCBjb25maXJtIG9yIGRlbnkgYSByZXBvcnQgdGhhdCBoZSBwbGFucyB0byBidXkgYSBob21lIGluIFBvbGsgQ291bnR5IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.E5BrVvtTsoQBy_KKm3CRKhQrzAznovyo0HMqHM9xR2UMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[15044],"class_list":["post-72341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-desantis-will-not-confirm-or-deny-a-report-that-he-plans-to-buy-a-home-in-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72342,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72341\/revisions\/72342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}