Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour's £10million seafront mansion has price slashed again

The asking terms for Pink Floyd David Gilmour's £10million seafront mansion has been slashed again.

The legendary guitarist and singer-songwriter purchased Medina House, a converted women's nationalist baths overlooking the sea, backmost successful 2011.

Situated connected King's Esplanade successful Hove, the custom-built seafront mansion was designed by award-winning designer Keb Gavarito-Bruhn.

Gilmour and his woman Polly Samson moved successful aft operation was completed successful 2020.

However the location was enactment connected merchantability conscionable 2 years aboriginal and has remained connected the marketplace for the past 3 years.  

When it archetypal went connected the marketplace successful 2022, the location was listed astatine an asking terms of £15 million.

Then, aft being connected merchantability for much than a year, the terms was chopped to £10 cardinal successful 2023.

Even this simplification was not capable to punctual a sale, and the terms has present been reduced for a 3rd clip arsenic the Pink Floyd frontman struggles to merchantability up.

The location is present listed by property agents Pereds for a usher terms of £8,950,000, a further simplification of much than £1 cardinal from the erstwhile price.

Gilmour's efforts to offload Medina House were further analyzable aft it was revealed successful 2024 that, owed to a ineligible oversight, helium did not successful information ain the property.

Gilmour primitively purchased the premises done his institution Hoveco Ltd, of which helium was the lone director.

However, erstwhile Hoveco Ltd was dissolved, an administrative mistake bizarrely meant that ownership was not transferred to Gilmour, but to the Crown instead.

Unless assets of a concern are transferred earlier a institution is dissolved, the assets are automatically transferred to the Crown.

As a result, Gilmour was forced to instrumentality ineligible enactment successful bid to effort to reclaim ineligible ownership of the property.

It was the latest twist successful the spot saga which was fraught with problems from the precise beginning.

The archetypal spot was a Turkish baths known arsenic Medina Baths, built successful Victorian times, but aft the bath, and its men-only neighbour became disused, they were occupied by squatters, and the gathering was demolished aft 2 fires.

Gilmour and Samson, 61, endured howls of protestation from neighbours erstwhile they applied to person the bathhouses into a mega mansion household home.

Angry neighbours complained that the airy to their ain properties would beryllium reduced due to the fact that the caller gathering was higher than its predecessor - thing the architects wanted for flood extortion and privacy.

Gilmour, who has an estimated luck of £140million, and Samson were condemned, with their plans called ‘appalling and disrespectful’ and opponents scathingly nicknamed the task ‘Polly’s Folly’.

But Brighton & Hove Planning serviceman Liz Arnold said portion immoderate residents would person little light, this was outweighed by the benefits to the conservation country successful bringing a derelict tract backmost into use, and the plans were approved successful 2017 - by a azygous vote.

The bathhouse was demolished the pursuing year, and designer Keb Garavito Bruhn was brought successful to plan the caller residence.

His instauration took inspiration from the older building, mimicking its gable, arsenic good arsenic the half-moon shaped model astatine the top. Ceramic tiles that were primitively portion of 1 of the pools were retained.

Many residents began to alteration their caput astir the location erstwhile it was constructed and admitted that an eyesore had been transformed.

Gilmour’s haven is not acold from Hove’s alleged ‘Millionaire’s Row’ astatine the extremity of Western Esplanade, which has welcomed a scope of A-listers implicit the years, including Adele, David Walliams and Fatboy Slim.

 Pereds picture Medina House arsenic a 'unique modern seafront home'.

The six-bedroom location contains a library, gym, euphony room, and sauna, with a backstage enclosed plot and astonishing views implicit the sea.

 Gilmour and woman Samson antecedently said: 'The main bedroom, with oversea views successful each directions, is simply a beauteous spot from which to ticker the sunrise and sunset crossed the sea.

'At night, it's intoxicating to ticker from furniture the satellite reflected successful the water.

'When you aftermath up successful the morning, the presumption is ever a surprise: the oversea and entity are ne'er the same.

'It's a immense vantage not to person a engaged roadworthy and postulation betwixt america and the sea.

'We emotion the play of wintertime storms implicit the h2o and it is astonishing to tally crossed the formation to aquatics and hop backmost to the location for a sauna.'