A plot of land next to the Beckhams’ sold for £16.5m
File photo: David and Victoria Beckham’s new neighbours have been revealed(Image: Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
David and Victoria Beckham’s new neighbours have been revealed as an Australian self-made entrepreneur, after a plot of land adjacent to their property sold for a staggering £16.5M.
The famous couple have lived in their Cotswolds mansion near Chipping Norton since 2016, when they purchased the property for £6,150,000.
Their rural estate is conveniently located near Soho Farmhouse, an exclusive celebrity club which counts Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and Tom Cruise among its visitors.
However, recent land registry documents reveal that Blair Raymond James and his glamorous wife Melanie Adams have acquired a 15-acre parcel of land situated right next to the Beckhams’ residence for a jaw-dropping sum.
David and Victoria Beckham’s lavish £6.15million Cotswold estate near Great Tew in Oxfordshire(Image: Alamy Stock Photo)
Blair, originally from a small country town near Melbourne, before relocating with his family to the UK in 1986, co-founded and developed Bondi Sands, the world’s top-selling self-tanning brand that was sold for $450M (Aus) in 2023. Famous clients who are fans of the brand include Kylie Jenner, Olivia Attwood and Charlotte Crosby.
Despite facing hardships, including financial struggles and losing both parents by the age of 23, Blair has become a self-made multi-millionaire and is now the director of Growth Bomb, a ‘miracle’ hair company he established during the pandemic. Just five years after launching the brand, the company has already sold more than one million products.
The deal to complete the purchase of the land and become the Beckhams’ new neighbours was made on September 13, 2024, according to official documents.
One insider said: “It’s just over 15 acres, including a fallen-down walled garden, but directly next to Chez Beckham. Can you put a price on having neighbours like that?”.
Land Registry documents forming part of the deeds for Mr James even reference the transfer of the land ‘Upper Park Farm’ from the directors of Great Tew Properties Ltd to the Beckhams when they purchased their home in December 2016. It contained restrictive covenants by the transferor that have since been varied.
The deeds also reveal the recently acquired land now owned by Mr James and his wife was transferred from Great Tew Properties Limited to Imperium Trust Company in 2021.
The Beckhams’ own residence sits within two acres of land, with the barn conversion having undergone extensive refurbishment.
These include a glasshouse, a large pond, an underground wine cellar and an Astroturf football pitch.
The 14,270 sq ft estate, which had been a working farm at the site since 1820, boasts nine bedrooms, four bathrooms, a movie theatre and even a gym.
Outside, the garden features a 12.5 metre by 7.5 metre swimming pool constructed in one courtyard of the E-shaped residence, plus a timber pergola-covered seating area in the other.
Great Tew Properties Limited declined to comment on the sale.
News of their new neighbours follows recent reports that the Beckhams are embroiled in another planning dispute with locals over a proposed new access road to their estate.
Their representatives claim the aim is to avoid traffic heading towards the nearby celebrity hotspot Soho Farmhouse, but objections have already been raised by one neighbour.
A verdict on the matter will be delivered by West Oxfordshire District Council at a future date.