Pink Floyd legend Dave Gilmour trying to sell £10million mansion - but faces big problem

Dave Gilmour, subordinate of the stone set Pink Floyd, has lived successful Medina House successful Hove, East Sussex, with his woman Polly Samson for years but present wants to merchantability the property

Pink Floyd fable Dave Gilmour is trying to merchantability a £10million mansion which helium doesn’t really legally own, according to reports.

The instrumentalist has lived successful six-bedroom Medina House successful Hove, East Sussex, with his woman Polly Samson for years but it is understood helium has lone precocious discovered a ineligible oversight means it is really owned by the Crown.

Now, the 78-year-old rockstar is believed to beryllium suing the authorities to close the mistake truthful that helium tin yet merchantability Medina House, which overlooks the oversea successful the tranquil resort.

Gilmour primitively bought the house, a converted women’s nationalist baths, successful 2011 done his erstwhile institution Hoveco Ltd, of which helium was the sole director. In 2014, the steadfast was dissolved - but owed to an oversight ownership wasn’t transferred to him. Under UK instrumentality 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, who has lived successful the spot with Samson, 62, for years, says the location was not enactment into his sanction due to the fact that of an inadvertent admin mistake - and helium has present turned to the High Court successful London wherever helium is suing the Attorney General. He reportedly is asking for a tribunal bid transferring the location into his sanction truthful helium tin yet merchantability it.

Nick Brett, Partner astatine Brett Wilson LLP told MailOnline: "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. It indispensable person travel arsenic a immense daze erstwhile helium recovered out. It’s an bonzer concern that is besides incredibly rare."

The Gilmours enactment Medina connected the marketplace for £15 cardinal successful 2022 but aboriginal reduced the terms to £10 million, it is said. However, the ineligible anomaly came to light, meaning it could not beryllium sold astatine immoderate terms until that contented was settled.

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