Gianforte purchases FOURTH Montana mansion amid housing crisis

‘We have people living in RVs on the streets right down the street from our home,’ he recently admitted

HELENA, Mont. – New Jersey billionaire governor Greg Gianforte has purchased a fourth multimillion-dollar mansion in Montana, public records show, making the Treasure State’s affordability crisis even worse. According to the public property database Cadastral, Gianforte’s East Gallatin LLC now owns the lakefront mansion at 14 Leaning Tree Lane on Georgetown Lake, near Anaconda, Mont. The website realtor.com, which features numerous photos of Gianforte’s luxury property, estimates the value of the 5,300 square-foot, three-bedroom, five-bathroom home, with a sauna and a wet bar, at nearly $4 million. The site says the mansion was purchased on March 12. “Does Gianforte’s latest luxury property, with its Italian marble kitchen, look like your fourth home?” said former firearms executive Ryan Busse, who’s running to unseat Gianforte as Montana’s governor. “New Jersey Gianforte has made Montana the most expensive it’s ever been, and now he’s selling it off for parts while he flies around in his private jet, buying up luxury estates and making property even less affordable for the rest of us.” Earlier this year in Washington, D.C., Gianforte tried to take credit for addressing Montana’s historic housing and affordability crisis, weirdly calling his policy failure a “Montana Miracle.” “We have people living in RVs on the streets right down the street from our home,” Gianforte admitted to the so-called Bipartisan Policy Institute in February. The Georgetown Lake property is the fourth known mansion owned by Gianforte. He also owns a mansion at 1320 Manley Road in Bozeman, and two on the same street in Helena’s “Mansion District”: 720 Madison Avenue and 618 Madison Avenue. An analysis of public tax records shows that while virtually all of Gianforte’s neighbors in Helena saw significant property tax increases in 2023, Gianforte gave himself a tax cut. The property taxes on Gianforte’s 618 Madison Avenue property went down seven percent in 2023. Busse and his lieutenant governor running mate, Raph Graybill, recently asked the Property Tax Task Force to investigate why Gianforte gave himself a tax cut while imposing higher taxes on his neighbors. “Montana taxpayers are suffering under the Governor’s higher taxes, red tape, and his refusal to publicly explain why he pays less in property taxes than his neighbors,” Busse and Graybill wrote. “The People of Montana deserve transparency and clarity, and we urge you to provide it.”