The private family office of Cheung Chung Kiu has agreed to buy the palatial home at 2-8a Rutland Gate, overlooking Hyde Park, a spokesman said in an emailed statement.
The sale price is set to be 210 million pounds, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction who asked not to be identified because the terms aren’t yet public. It would be the biggest ever for a house in the U.K., eclipsing the 140 million pounds paid for a country house in Oxfordshire nearly a decade ago. It would also be one of the richest deals worldwide, topping the $238 million that Ken Griffin, founder of hedge-fund firm Citadel, paid last year for a penthouse in Manhattan.
The property, close to London’s best known luxury residential development One Hyde Park and department store Harrods, was once the home of Rafic Hariri, the former prime minister of Lebanon, who was assassinated in 2005. It also served as the London home of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the late crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
The seven-story white stucco house provides 62,000 square feet (5,760 square meters) of living space, about 7% more than an American football field. It was originally built in the 1830s as a terrace of four townhouses, but in the mid 1980s the terrace was remodeled into a single Italianate private palace.
The house has a series of grand state rooms, with Bullet-Proof Windows, several passenger elevators, a swimming pool, private health spa and gymnasium and underground parking.
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