The posh London mansion that billionaire businesswoman and pop star Rihanna rented for £18,000 (US$21,895) per month while she lived in the British capital has just sold for £27.5 million.
The A-lister called the pad home for some two-and-a-half years—during which the more than 6,300-square-foot home’s contemporary interiors appeared across her social media channels—before moving out in 2020, Mansion Global previously reported.
Fully refurbished and modernized, the eight-bedroom home is St. John’s Wood, a leafy upscale neighborhood north of Regent’s Park that’s full of townhouses and megamansions.
It’s also “the only one of Royal architect John Shaw’s original villas on St. John’s Wood Park to have survived into the 21st century,” said Stephen Lindsay, the head of the North London and St John’s Wood office at Savills, which had the listing with Aston Chase.
The house has a number of reception and family rooms, alongside formal and casual dining rooms, a study, a family kitchen and a gym. There’s plenty of outdoor space too, in the form of a terrace and a sizable rear garden.
There’s also planning permission in place to expand the home to 16,000 square feet, nearly tripling the interior space, and allowing a basement with a pool and spa, according to the listing.
The “We Found Love” singer is not the only notable resident to have called the manse home. Diamond tycoon Daniel Francis, a shareholder at De Beers in the mid-1800s, was the original owner of the five-story mansion.
The house was purchased by a family from overseas, according to the brokerages. Mansion Global couldn’t identify the sellers.
Friday’s sale equated to £3,500 per square foot, a record price for the St. John’s Wood area,” said Mark Pollack, co-founding director of Aston Chase. It reflects “the substantial planning consent obtained, the large plot and the secure carriage drive, which are amenities normally associated with homes further out in the suburbs of London.”
A representative for Rihanna couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Source : MansionGlobal