Rolf Harris, the disgraced paedophile who was convicted of 12 indecent assault of girls, died at the property on the banks of the River Thames in Bray, Berkshire
The mansion of disgraced former kids TV presenter Rolf Harris is set to be auctioned off for just a fraction of its asking price, it is reported.
The property failed to attract a buyer after it went on the market for £4million almost one year ago. Experts had said Harris’ only child Bindi, who inherited the house along with most of his £16million estate, was asking too much — and they were proven to have been right.
Now, it is believed the house in Bray, Berkshire, will be sold at auction for a significantly lower price. The mansion has also reportedly fallen into disrepair during the year it has been on the market. Photographs show the building on the banks of the River Thames covered in moss with some of the walls decaying.
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Speaking to the Mirror last year, local estate agent Brian Warren said: “We actually looked at it and others on the same row. I originally said it was worth £2million.
“No one buying at that price would want to live in it because of the stigma and it’s a mess, with all add-on extensions that Rolf Harris put on over the years. So they’re looking at paying another £1.5million on top of that to rebuild it because it’s on the river, which is more expensive.”
It is thought thousands of pounds were spent renovating the mansion in 2016 in preparation for Harris’ release from prison on licence. However, neighbours of the convicted paedophile were reported to be putting their multimillion-pound riverside properties up for sale in the months that followed — and property prices plunged as a result.
Speaking following the latest development about the auction, Mr Warren, of Warren Property Matters, told The Sun: “It’s got the stigma attached to it. Who’s going to buy it? Because of what’s attached to it, there’s not many people that would go in there and refurb it would they?”
Dad-to-one Harris died at the address on May 10, 2023 after a battle with neck cancer. An undertaker’s private ambulance was photographed outside the house, where the 93-year-old man had lived for more than six decades.
The disgraced TV presenter was jailed for five years and nine months in June 2014 after being found guilty of a dozen indecent assaults against four young girls, including sex assaults on one of Bindi’s friends, who was aged between 13 and 19 at the time. His crimes took place between 1968 and 1986, and some of these assaults occurred inside his Berkshire home.
Harris rose to fame in his early 20s when he moved to England, became an art student and found work in television at the BBC, performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in a children’s show – Jigsaw.
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