A north London mansion on a development where BBC1 TV’s The Apprentice was filmed in 2023 and 2022 has been rented out for almost £1 million a year.
The new tenants at the 14,530sq ft seven-bedroom neo-Georgian residence on The Bishop’s Avenue, nicknamed ‘Billionaires’ Row’, will pay £80,000 a month after relocating from Kensington in a deal that highlights that activity is still strong at the top end of the market.
Facilities at the newly-built property include a glass mosaic-lined swimming pool, a separate spa pool, a marble-clad ice chute, sauna, steam room, jacuzzi and treatment room, home cinema, and passenger lift.
Mark Pollack, co-founding director of agent Aston Chase, said: “This significant lettings deal is one of the most substantial rents ever achieved on The Bishop’s Avenue and underlines both the desirability of The Bishop’s Avenue as an internationally recognised address and the quality of the residence itself.”
The mega mansion is one of the the most expensive homes to be rented out on The Bishop’s Avenue, near Hampstead Heath, where famous residents have included Prince of Wales’s godfather Constantine II — the last King of Greece — Justin Bieber and Salma Hayek.
Princess Diana used to drive Princes William and Harry to visit Constantine II in her convertible sports car. Constantine II, who died in January this year, sold the house overlooking Hampstead Heath for £9.8 million in 2013 having lived there for 46 years with his wife Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, and their five children. It later fell into a state of disrepair and was sold in 2020 for just over £6 million.
A 15-bedroom villa on the famous street was home to Justin Bieber during the singer’s UK arena tour in 2016 — reportedly at a cost of around £25,000 a week.
Built in 1910 over three floors for Tate & Lyle sugar tycoon William Lyle, it has since been extended and refurbished. There is now an indoor swimming pool and gym, a cinema complex, wine cellar and a tennis court. Actress Salma Hayek and her billionaire businessman husband Francois-Henri Pinault later rented Bieber’s old pad.
