THEY are the homes that most of us can only dream about buying.
Zoopla has revealed its top 10 most expensive homes sold in 2023, with a west London mansion complete with a cinema and 40ft indoor pool taking the crown at an eye-watering £25million.
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Its UK property rich list also includes a Chelsea townhouse in the exclusive Little Boltons – where pop legend Madonna used to live – which fetched a cool £16.5m.
The capital’s most exclusive neighbourhoods seem to have swerved the cost of living crisis hammering the rest of the UK with all ten mega-bucks mansions located in London.
Priced at a staggering £25m, 60 Addison Road in Holland Park – where the Beckhams have a home – was the site’s priciest piece of prime real estate in 2023.
Rebuilt in the early 2010s behind a Victorian façade, it boasts a 40ft indoor swimming pool, a state-of-the-art gym and its very own cinema.
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After a workout there’s no need to tackle the stairs because the property has a lift, while a carriage driveway with steel automated gates offers safe and secure access to the exclusive address.
The mammoth sale price eclipsed the average £7.7m house price on Addison Road – a sought-after street a stone’s throw from posh Notting Hill.
Next, priced at a wallet-busting £22.5m, is 53 Avenue Road in St John’s Wood, north west London.
The rare double-fronted home went for far more than the street’s typical house price of £6.4m thanks to its imposing architectural frontage and massive garden.
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Boasting more than 7,578 sq ft of interior space and 5,900 sq ft of outside grounds, this grand gaff underwent a major refurb before it was sold.
It features a stately entrance hall leading on to ornate reception rooms with sleek marble floors, floor to ceiling windows and elegant chandeliers.
In third place is 28 Tregunter Road in Chelsea, west London – an elegant 8,000 sq ft family home which sold for £18m earlier this year – astonishingly £2m below the average house price for the road.
Built in the 1860s, it is part of the glamorous Boltons precinct, but the property has been completely revamped and fully furnished by celebrated architect and interior designer Rabih Hage.
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A close fourth at £17.95m is 24 Ingram Avenue, near Hampstead Heath, north west London.
It has a state-of-the-art cinema, bar, wine cellar and games room.
Downstairs there’s a swimming pool, sauna, steam room, two changing rooms, a treatment room and spa.
There are separate staff quarters and a lift serving the first and second floors.
Along with a master bedroom with two en-suite bathrooms, there are another five bedrooms, four reception rooms and seven bathrooms in total.
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We head back west for the fifth priciest property on the list – 7 Cottesmore Gardens in Kensington, which went for £17.5m in March.
The six bedroom property was completely rebuilt between 2009 and 2015 under the expert eye of Andrzej Zarzycki from the internationally renowned Collett Zarzycki architecture and design practice.
It’s in spitting distance of Hyde Park and includes a grand entrance hall, a sumptuous principal bedroom suite, cinema room, gym and spectacular family room.
There’s a secluded rear garden with an open west aspect, meaning it’s bathed in sun all afternoon and evening, and there’s even a private security car that patrols the neighbourhood.
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Another pad located in Chelsea’s chic The Little Boltons – which was home to Madonna for seven years in the early noughties during her marriage to Brit film director Guy Ritchie – was back on the market this year.
The townhouse, spread over five floors with five bedrooms, a giant private garden, gym, wine cellar and secure vault, had an asking price of £16.5m.
Belgravia’s 23 Grosvenor Crescent Mews, which sold for £16.25m this year, is number seven in the property website’s top ten.
With 4,779 sq ft arranged over four floors, the gated mews property with a concierge service has a bespoke glass lift, a spectacular roof terrace and a vast atrium, flooding the amazing space with light.
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Mayfair is the most expensive space on the Monopoly board, and a home in the exclusive London district was the eighth priciest in 2023 – 14 Half Moon Street.
This Grade II listed four-bedroom townhouse, which sold for £14.5m this summer, was once divided into “bachelor chambers” where famous Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and his bohemian friends lived.
Its hedonistic former life is said to have been the setting for the first act in Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest.
Today it is one home and features a cinema room, gym, steam room, lift, air-conditioning, private roof terrace and four expansive bedroom suites.
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The penultimate property on the list is 48 Manchester Street, a Georgian home in Marylebone.
It’s spread over five floors with an added kitchen made of glass that leads on to a breakfast room and terrace, going for £14.25m.
Finally, with direct views over St James’s Park, 20 Queen Anne’s Gate in Westminster fetched £12.65m.
A blue plaque outside the third floor apartment tells you it was the birthplace of Lord Palmerston – twice prime minister in the 19th century.
Featuring European oak veneered internal doors, electric underfloor heating, Italian marble flooring, a master suite with a huge adjoining dressing room, video entry and security systems, it gives current PM Rishi Sunak‘s nearby 10 Downing Street a run for its money.
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Zoopla consumer spokesman Daniel Copley said: “Although it’s been a more challenging year for the housing market as a whole, London’s most luxurious properties have an enduring appeal for high net worth individuals looking for homes that provide everything from swimming pools to cinemas, expansive cellars and carriage driveways.
“This year has been no exception with the most expensive property being sold in Zoopla going for an eye-watering £25m.”
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