Liam Payne Sells Calabasas Home for $10.2 Million

Liam Payne’s 2021 is off to a productive start: In the first two weeks of the new year, not only has he hosted an online fundraiser and kicked off a new Hugo Boss campaign, but he also turned a small profit on his Southern California estate. According to Forbes, the massive Calabasas property sold for just over $10.16 million, slightly above the $10 million he paid for it in 2015.

The house spans almost 9,700 square feet, comprising five bedrooms and five bathrooms, plus a home theater, a wine cellar, a family kitchen, and a two-floor library, all decorated with Spanish-style charm and wrought-iron details. Elsewhere on the property’s five acres are a recording studio, a private guesthouse, a teahouse used for massages and meditation, and a poolhouse that contains a full gym and complements the large swimming pool, built-in spa, and sun deck. The lush grounds are dotted with gardens, stone pathways, koi ponds, waterfalls, and a small vineyard, and are enclosed within stately security gates.

Payne originally moved into the hillside home with then girlfriend Cheryl Cole in December 2015. He listed it as a $40,000 rental in March 2017, around the time he and Cole welcomed their son Bear Grey. The house officially hit the market in 2018 with an asking price of around $14 million, but the price had dropped to $10.75 million when he relisted it in the summer of 2020.

The singer-songwriter likely parted ways with the calming retreat so quickly due to a few unwelcome visitors: In 2017, Payne told The Sun that Cole had refused to sleep in any of the bedrooms after being told that the house was haunted by its previous owner, the late aerial film operator Alan Purwin.

“I’ve seen lights go on and off in the middle of the night and a few little creepy things, like taps turning on and off,” he said at the time. “If you don’t believe in it, I don’t think it can get to you. But Cheryl was like, ‘I’m not sleeping upstairs.’ So we slept downstairs in the cinema room.”

Tomer Fridman of Compass and Jonah Wilson of Hilton and Hyland were the co-listing agents.

Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest