Sean Hannity Makes Major Life Change

Fox News icon Sean Hannity is following through on a life-changing promise he made to himself earlier this year, giving up his plans for retirement in his home state and heading south to a bastion of freedom.

After declaring himself “done” with the state of New York, Hannity, 62, just sold his Long Island estate for a whopping $12.7 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. A bidding war on the waterfront property inflated the value of the 11,000-square-foot property. Listing agent Shawn Elliott of Nest Seekers International said the buyer, a fan of Hannity, also purchased the estate’s furniture. “I think there was a little bit of a star factor,” Elliott told the outlet, adding the buyer “got a great deal.”

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It’s “a new record for the fastest home sale over $10 million in the area,” he said. “We do whatever it takes to get the house sold for the most money in the least amount of time with the absolute best terms.”

The sale netted Hannity approximately 33% in appreciation since he first purchased the Oyster Bay property for $8.7 million in 2008. Personal amenities include a par-3 golf course, private dock, and resort-style swimming pool, though some of the improvements were made by Hannity since then, the Journal added. Located just 40 minutes from Manhattan, Hannity will soon be far from his studio of 15 years.

According to Realtor.com, the Fox News anchor has already purchased a 3,800-square-foot townhome in Palm Beach, Florida that comes with a waterfront view. His price tag? A cool $5.3 million — with no state income tax to boot.

“We are now beginning our first broadcast from my new home, and that is in the free state of Florida,” Hannity stated on his daily radio show in January. “I am out. I am done. I am finished in New York.”

The move has required Hannity to rebuild his home studio from scratch, though he said he “feels a lot better” about leaving the Big Apple and its myriad of problems behind. Furthermore, swapping liberal politicians like New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams for Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis ensures Hannity’s representatives will share his fiscally conservative values.

“And finally for the first time that I can think of in my adult life, I actually have representatives in the state that I’m living in that share my values,” Hannity said. “And if anything, I’m probably late and behind the curve and many others have made the move beforehand and there’s not a single person that I know, that made a move like this that is not happy that they’ve made it,” he said.

Among his other reasons for moving, the 27-year Fox veteran listed “burdensome regulation, high crime [and] horrible school districts” as reasons why Americans are fleeing deep-blue states. Between 2021 and 2022, Illinois, California, and New York — all Democratic strongholds — each lost more than 100,000 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. California, which boasts both the largest sales and income taxes in the country, lost more than 75,000 additional residents in 2023.

Between 2020 and 2023, Florida added nearly 1.1 million residents, according to Fox.