Marcus Cooper buys £80 million London terrace house
Savills has secured the reported £80 million sale of a terrace house opposite Regent's Park in London.
Spread over a vast 21,500 square feet, One Cornwall Terrace is a Grade 1 listed mansion.
Expected to have been purchased by a buyer from Russia or the Middle East, it was bought by a British property mogul.
Just four months after its listing, the seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom property was snapped up by the property trader Marcus Cooper.
The neo-classical Stucco-styled facade has Corinthian pilasters and a grand two-storey bay embellished with sculpted Greek goddess Artemis.
Mr Cooper has spent the past 20 years buying and selling other fine homes including the 25-bedroom Witanhurst in Highgate.
Cornwall Terrace was originally designed and built in the 1820s by architect Decimus Burton with the project overseen by famed John Nash. Decimus Burton also built Buckingham Palace.
It was the official London residence of the New Zealand High Commissioner from 1955 until the 1970s.
The Daily Mail, which broke the news, suggested it was about 500 times more expensive than the average property.
