Which of Trump’s properties have judgments filed against them and what are the specific liens or mortgages attached?
Executive summary
The New York attorney general has moved from judgment to enforcement steps in the $454 million civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump and related entities, filing notices and county judgments that target at least the Seven Springs estate and adjacent golf property in Westchester County; however, publicly available reports do not disclose a comprehensive list of every Trump property with filed liens nor the precise mortgages or encumbrances on those assets [1] [2] [3]. Courts have paused collection conditionally—ordering that Trump post a $175 million bond to block enforcement—while the complexity of titles, mortgages and LLC ownership structures makes immediate seizure legally and practically difficult [3] [2].
1. What was judged and where enforcement papers have been filed
In September 2023 Justice Engoron issued a summary judgment finding that Trump and his companies committed fraud and ordered more than $450 million in relief, and New York’s attorney general followed by filing technical notices of that judgment and recording enforcement papers in county land records as an initial step toward collection [4] [1] [3]. Media reporting and county filings specifically cite judgments recorded in Westchester County covering Trump’s Seven Springs estate and the adjoining golf course as concrete examples of the AG’s enforcement activity in real property records [2]. The AG’s office publicly described the filings as preparatory steps and has not, in the sources reviewed, published a full catalog of every parcel for which a judgment notice has been recorded [3].
2. What specific liens or mortgages are publicly identified
Available reporting documents the recording of judgment notices—which create a statutory lien in many jurisdictions—but does not enumerate existing private mortgages, their balances, or other secured creditor claims against the same properties in the materials provided here [3] [2]. Coverage emphasizes that a judgment notice is a distinct legal instrument from a mortgage—alerting courts and title examiners to the AG’s claim—but the sources do not supply a list of mortgage holders or amounts attached to the Seven Springs holdings or other Trump properties [3] [2]. Therefore, while a judgment lien has been placed on identified Westchester properties, the precise interaction of that lien with current mortgages or other encumbrances cannot be reconstructed from the cited documents alone [2] [3].
3. Legal obstacles and tactical posture around seizing assets
Legal experts and reporting warn that enforcing a large civil judgment against a sprawling portfolio is slow and contested: properties often sit behind layers of limited liability companies, co-ownership claims and preexisting mortgages that complicate seizure, and New York’s AG acknowledged the difficulty of specifying which holdings might be targeted first [2] [3]. The appellate court weighed that reality when it agreed to stay collection provided Trump posts a $175 million bond within a narrow deadline—an outcome that both forestalls immediate enforcement and shifts the dispute into an appeals and bonding process [3]. Engoron’s earlier remedies ordering dissolutions and business license terminations underline the broader scope of relief, but those remedies are themselves subject to appeal and practical limits when real estate is encumbered [4] [1].
4. Competing narratives and what remains unknown
The AG’s office frames the filings as preparation to collect on a validated fraud judgment while defense filings and appeals focus on delaying enforcement and contesting both liability and remedy, creating competing public narratives about imminence of seizures [1] [3]. Reporting notes the AG has filed notices in at least Westchester County but does not publish a comprehensive ledger of every property against which a lien has been recorded—or the amounts and seniority of mortgages already attached—so the full map of encumbrances across Trump’s portfolio is not demonstrable from the provided sources [2] [3]. Absent detailed county-level title searches or disclosures from lenders, claims about specific mortgage amounts or priority are beyond the scope of the available reporting [2] [3].
5. Bottom line for creditors, opponents and observers
The AG has turned a court judgment into enforceable county filings—most visibly in Westchester for the Seven Springs estate and golf course—and has signaled readiness to pursue real property if appellate protections fail, but the tangled web of LLC ownership and mortgages means seizures are neither automatic nor simple; meanwhile an appellate stay conditioned on a $175 million bond temporarily forestalls collection and keeps the dispute tied up in higher courts [2] [3] [1]. Public records cited in mainstream reporting confirm judgment filings and notices but do not provide the granular lien or mortgage schedules necessary to state definitively which properties, beyond those named, carry which specific secured debts as of the documents reviewed here [2] [3].