Adele and her ghosts are scaring away home buyers, homeowner accuses

Lock House is a former convent nestled in the green countryside of West Sussex, England. However, the owner of this magnificent residence, listed as a world heritage site and built in the middle of a park sheltering “deer, mature oaks, cedars, Scots pines and lime trees”, has not been able to sell it for years. And, according to him, this failure has someone responsible: the singer Adele who rented it and lived there for six months in the early 2010s.

The star did not commit any irreparable material damage but she would have dissuaded potential buyers by revealing in an interview with CBS that the vast residence was full of… ghosts!, reports the “Guardian”. “This house is a bit cliché, actually. “It’s all really quite scary,” she told the TV crew, adding a reference to the cursed hotel from “The Shining.” The “Sun” hit the nail on the head with an article ensuring that the artist constantly heard noises that made her jump.

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Only one serious buyer, frightened by the specters…

Far from being a selling point, this haunting mentioned by Adele would have “devastated the property”. In 14 years, the owner, who bought the house in 2003 and did major work on it, would have had only one serious offer in 2020. But according to him, the buyer gave up when he learned that he would have to share his accommodation with ghosts.

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The owner therefore decided to transform the immense mansion which has “a cinema room, a billiard room, a swimming pool, a tennis court and a summer pavilion” into a residential complex consisting of three houses and a cottage.

To undertake this important work on a historic building, he had to request authorization from the district council which granted it, apparently convinced by his supernatural arguments. But the possibility that the price asked by the seller could have been more frightening than a cohort of ghosts does not seem to have been taken into consideration…