Pink Floyd legend Dave Gilmour is desperately trying to sell £10m mansion – but HUGE admin error stands in his way

PINK Floyd fable Dave Gilmour is desperately trying to currency successful for his £10million mansion - but an admin mistake is blocking the sale.

The iconic guitarist and hitmaker, 78, was shocked to observe that his six-bedroom gaff successful Hove is really owned by the crown.

Gilmour, who has lived successful the East Sussex spot with woman Polly Samson for years, is present reportedly suing the authorities to amend the error, according to MailOnline.

The prima purchased the coastal Medina House successful 2011 done his erstwhile institution Hoveco Ltd, which helium directed.

Spanning 6,284 sq ft, it boasts a courtyard, 4 bathrooms, a gym, and a covered garden.

Hoveco Ltd dissolved 3 years aft the sale, but ownership was erroneously not transferred to the musician.

Under UK law unless assets of a concern are transferred earlier a institution is dissolved, its assets automatically go ‘bono vacantia’ [vacant goods] and beryllium to the Crown instead.

Gilmour is present turning his attraction to the High Court, wherever helium reportedly plans to writer the Attorney General.

"Imagine reasoning you ain a location for implicit a decade, peculiarly 1 worthy £10-15 million, but past erstwhile you privation to merchantability it, you observe you can’t due to the fact that successful information technically ineligible ownership whitethorn person passed to the State," Nick Brett, Partner astatine Brett Wilson LLP told MailOnline.

"It indispensable person travel arsenic a immense daze erstwhile helium recovered out.

"It’s an bonzer concern that is besides incredibly rare."

The seaside paradise sits adjacent to Hove's ‘Millionaire’s Row’, a plush country which has welcomed star-studded residents including Adele, David Walliams and Fatboy Slim.

The Gilmours enactment the location connected the marketplace successful 2022 for £15million but subsequently lowered it to £10million.

Gilmour and his woman antecedently spoke proudly astir the mode they transformed the property.

"It is simply a beauty, and bittersweet for america that it took truthful agelong and was past completed during the pandemic," Polly said of the Hove location past year.

"Our children were inactive children and surviving astatine location erstwhile we archetypal bought – and thought we could prevention the building.

"Now they’ve flown, truthful Medina House ne'er got the accidental to go our household home. We person a one-bedroom level [also successful Hove], which is enough.

"Now there’s conscionable the 2 of us.

"We’ve had truthful galore memorable parties here. It’s astonishing to tally crossed the formation for a aquatics and past hop backmost to the location for a sauna.

"Sometimes we’d hop crossed the formation with our sportfishing rods, bring backmost the drawback and past navigator it connected the occurrence successful the wintertime garden."

The Sun Online has reached retired to the Attorney General's bureau for comment.

HE'S BACK

It comes aft stone icon Gilmour made his music comeback for the archetypal clip successful 8 years successful October.

David played six nights astatine the iconic Royal Albert Hall.

David Gilmour broke distant from Pink Floyd successful 1985 aft falling retired with Roger Waters.

In an interrogation with Uncut, David said that helium has an "unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies".

“[Other decades] mightiness beryllium amended represented,” helium said. “I mean, astatine slightest 1 from the Sixties. The 1 we’ve done successful the past is 1967’s ‘Astronomy.’" helium said.

"That’s ever entertaining and amusive and gets radical disconnected to a blessed start. There’s songs from [1987’s] A Momentary Lapse of Reason and [1994’s] The Division Bell albums. I mean, I deliberation ‘High Hopes’ is arsenic bully arsenic thing we ever did astatine immoderate time.”