Cristiano Ronaldo Selling Former Manchester Mansion for £3.25M

Having left Manchester United almost a decade ago, it’s no surprise that international soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is ready to bid farewell to his home in the affluent English village of Alderley Edge, just 15 miles away from his former playing ground at Old Trafford. Mr. Ronaldo, who now plays forward for Italian club Juventus, listed the five-bedroom, three-story brick house on Monday for £3.25 million (US$4.1 million), according to listing records. The Portuguese footballer is set to take a £600,000 loss if it sells for that asking price. Mr. Ronaldo, 33, purchased the house for £3.895 million over a decade ago, according to a title document filed with the Land Registry in 2007. More: Venus Williams Selling South Florida House for $2.695M Images of the house reveal Mr. Ronaldo’s surprisingly Gothic taste in furnishings. The spartan decor left in the house is almost exclusively black, including a black shag and cowhide rugs, a plush charcoal-gray couch and even sheer black curtains. Otherwise the home has fairly traditional finishes, including light stone-tile and hardwood floors and tall windows. There’s also a slew of luxurious amenities, including a pool, spacious white-and-black lacquer kitchen (Juventus’s team colors), a steam room, cinema room and a gym, according to images of the house, which is listing with local real estate agency Benson Bunch. The brokerage did not return a request for comment.

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From Penta: How to Unleash $45 Billion for Charity There are three en-suite bedrooms in total, including a large master suite with two adjoining bathrooms and a walk-in closet. This is the second time the Portuguese footballer has marketed his former English home. The property first hit the market in 2013 for £3.75 million, according to an old listing for the home. Mr. Ronaldo, who left Manchester United in 2009, could not be reached for comment. Stay up to date with Mansion Global newsletters SIGN UP UNITED KINGDOM MANSION NEW LISTINGS Stay up to date with Mansion Global newsletters Stay up to date with Mansion Global newsletters SIGN UP RELATED PROPERTIES PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL, UNITED STATES Single Family Home 5 7 $4,900,000 USD NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES New Development 2 2 $2,400,000 USD LONDON, ENG, UNITED KINGDOM Apartment 4 4 £4,250,000 GBP SEE MORE Buy Search other properties READ NEXT STORY NEW YORK CITY Manhattan Townhouse With Ties to Some of U.S.’s Wealthiest Families Finds Buyer The Sutton Place home was last asking $18.5 million BY LIZ LUCKING | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 22, 2019 | MANSION GLOBAL SAVE SHARE This Sutton Place home has found a buyer GOOGLE MAPS An $18.5 million Upper East Side townhouse with a veritable pedigree of billionaire ownership has found a buyer, according to listing records. A contract was signed on the property Wednesday, one month after it shed $2.5 million from its asking price. It had been listed in September for $21 million. More: Chicago’s Most Expensive Listing Slashed by $5 million The exact sale price and the identity of the buyer will not be known until the sale closes. The blue-doored house on Sutton Place is being sold by a trust linked to Drue Heinz, the wife of the late Henry John Heinz II, heir to the family’s food fortune. Drue Heinz died last March at the age of 103. Henry John Heinz II purchased the home in 1977, according to records with PropertyShark, which did not detail how much he paid for the home. Ownership was transferred to the trust in 1986. But long before the Heinzs’ ownership, the Georgian townhouse was designed in 1920 by American architect Mott Schmidt for Anne Vanderbilt, according to the listing with Mary C. Kent of Sotheby’s International Realty. From Penta: Great Escapes: Luxury Meets Natural Wonders in the Peaks of Patagonia Vanderbilt’s move served as one of the catalysts for the area’s transformation into a mainstay of riverfront wealth, according to a New York Times article from 1929. "Five years ago, when Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt established her residence in Sutton Place overlooking the East River, it was little dreamed that within so short a time such a marked migration from mid-Manhattan to the East River district would occur as is now in full swing," the article read. Spanning 7,000 square feet, the home has six bedrooms, a parlor room, a sunroom with a glass ceiling, six fireplaces, terraces, a garden and river views, according to the listing. Ms. Kent did not immediately respond to a request for comment.