Former President Barack Obama rides a bike with his daughter Malia on Martha's Vineyard in August 2015. Susan Walsh / AP Images Rumors that the Obamas are looking to Martha's Vineyard for a new vacation home aren't true, a family spokesman said.

The Boston Globe earlier reported that "word around the island" is that the former president and his family have been house-hunting in the rural communities of Aquinnah, Chilmark, and West Tisbury, off the coast of Massachusetts.

The paper specifically noted the Obamas' interest in a set of two parcels owned by Caroline Kennedy and her husband, Edwin Schlossberg. The two parcels were once one 377-acre estate, called Red Gate Farm, that was owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Kennedy and Schlossberg divided the expansive plot into two several years ago, and they're both currently on the market — one for $15 million, and the other for $12 million.

However, Obama spokesperson Kevin Lewis has denied that the family is looking for a home in Martha's Vineyard.

Sotheby's International Realty, whose agent George Ballantyne is listing the Kennedy properties with Hancock Real Estate's Deborah Hancock, did not immediately return a request for comment.



Here's the property that Sotheby's has listed: