Portuguese star loves him some asymmetrical design
As a man who will never need a mortgage, one would expect Cristiano Ronaldo to buy a home in Madrid outright, butSportreveal that he is to rent an exclusive bachelor pad for €12,000-a-month. That seems like rather a lot, but it works out at approximately 0.1 per cent of his income [upon further consultation with a calculator, The Spoiler has decided it is actually around 1.4 per cent - Ed.].
Located on the exclusive La Finca Los Lagos resort, C-Ron will count team mate Raul and Fernando Torres among his neighbours. The 180 home complex is ideally located for Madrid’s training ground (although it’s not too convenient for the nightlife), and offers 24-hour security patrols, infrared biometric controls and perimeter security cameras. This may limit opportunities for al fresco WAG boffing, but will certainly keep paparazzi lenses at bay.
Joaquin Torres - the architect responsible for the luxury pad - says the Madrid star originally asked to purchase his house but settled on renting the property above, with the option of purchasing it for €5m. The five bedroom home contains two bathrooms, locker rooms, a cinema, a pool, a wine cellar, a garage that can hold six cars, a whirlpool and a jacuzzi with room for up to five prostitutes.
Real Madrid star is selling his home at the wrong time
In 2008, Cristiano Ronaldo paid £3.8m for the seven-bedroom mansion in Alderly Edge that his new neighbours deemed “offensive, brutal and insensitive“.
Soon after moving in, the tricky winger invested £300,000 on a pool, gym and ‘gadgets’ (read: ‘a sex dungeon’) for his opulent pre-fab home.
The financial nuclear winter doesn’t seem to have affected his freespending employers, but it has depreciated the value of the Cheshire crib, as it is now valued at just £3.5m. The Spoiler’s maths correspondent informs us that this represents a loss of £600,000.
It could take anything up to three weeks for Ronaldo to make back that kind of deficit.
Those who assumed Cristiano Ronaldo spent all his money on sports cars, hair gel and hotpants had better think again - the Manchester Utd winger is sinking his riches into property.
At one point, Robbie Fowler was became the wealthiest sportsman in Britain thanks to his obsession with snapping up property, and after buying another four homes and a Portuguese hotel, it looks like C-Ron could be disgustingly rich in no time:
Portuguese idol Ron, 24 tomorrow, plans to put £8million into a hotel boasting sea views on Porto Santo, an island near his native Madeira.It is a shrewd move for the winger, who already owns a £4million mansion in Cheshire and a string of pads abroad.
He already owns a villa and a flat near Lisbon, has bought a house in Madeira for his mum and invested in boutiques for his sister.
At a time when property values are decreasing, this seems like a very sensible long-term investment. Plus, he’ll finally be able to stay at a hotel where they don’t mind him and his female guests checking in for just a few hours…
Liverpool captain given prestigious honour of promoting property
After plans to launch the Phil Babb Hotel and the Jason McAteer Suites were mysteriously halted, Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was in London last night to front a new property project. Oblivious to the current economic apocalypse, Azizi investment are to construct The Steven Gerrard Tower (The SGT for locals) on the Palm Jebel Ali, for a mere £150m.
For his willingness to hawk the new property (”The vision and quality of the Azizi brand was what inspired me to be a part of this new forthcoming development” he told a press conference at the Dorchester Hotel) the Liverpool captain will be given a £1m penthouse.
Alex Curran loves to take in the luxuries and excesses of the United Arab Emirates, which means the Gerrard’s will undoubtedly use their new pad more than Rio Ferdinand uses his free Ugandan home.
When one commits to a high-flying job in a strange new country, one of the most important things to do is to find a new home. New Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho has been doing exactly that, and today started moving stuff into a beautifully-appointed multi-million pound villa.
Trouble is, it’s in Setubal, Portugal, approximately 2,167km (or around 20 hours in the car) from his new place of work
Chelsea’s head honcho now owns slightly more of London
Although his attendance at Chelsea games has been less than exemplary of late, any rumours that Roman Abramovich is bored with his West London plaything may be quashed by his latest property investment.
The Russian oligarch originally bought a flat for in the pricey SW1 Lowndes Square building for just over £1m in the late nineties. He and (ex-) wife Irina lived there for several years, but it seems model girlfriend Daria Zhukova requires a little more space for her expansive array of tiny bikinis. Hence, Rom has slowly bought up the rest of the building and can now realise his dream of turning the whole thing into a gigantic palatial residence…
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