A modest three bedroom property in Leytonstone, north east London has received a lot of interest from fat purse individuals and has brought much attention to an otherwise quiet neighborhood after it was verified that the LA Galaxy right midfielder spent his first two years in the house.Colin Evans, a local businessman, stumbled upon the property while doing research on famous people from Leytonstone and surprised the owners with the news. After verifying from Evans that the England captain did indeed live there from when he was born at nearby Whipps Cross University Hospital on May 2 1975, before moving to Chingford in 1977, they quickly made him sole agent for the sale.
Similar houses in the area normally sell for around £250,000 but the Beckham name brand has not surprisingly, raised the property value. An advert for the house on the U.K real estate website gumtree.com, as of November of last year, listed the asking price at £850,000 and describes it as "a lovely town house" with wooden floors and french windows opening onto the garden. Not long after, Colin Evans received an offer from an anonymous Australian Beckham enthusiast for £1million. In the same month, a spokeman for David Beckham reported the the star himself was interested in purchasing the house and offered £1.5million for it.
This is the month of January and there doesn't seem to have been any sale yet (at least I haven't heard of any) of the Leytonstone property. How much more do Evans and the current owners want for the place. The Beckham offer is already three times the property value and in this economy, I'm not sure that there are going to be too many offers to beat that, unless of course its been sold already. If anyone knows about its sale please "talk me down" as Rachael would say.
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