So with my spare 46.5 million pounds

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I am thinking of this beauty

It is actually very convenient to the DDs school.

I will have to redecorate though.

Hmm very nice, although parts of it look like a hotel lobby. Not sure I would have the self-confidence to use the mirrored bathroom!

Its magnificent but it'd be a "no thanks" from me because it has about 30 bzillion spotlights. I hate spotlights.

If have to say no. Just think of the council tax on that place.

Yeurgh

Well I was thinking of putting an offer in til I saw the bathroom. That would reflect too much information.

I only like the pool.

And why no pictures of the garden?

£46.5m - its just totally random. What does it have that a common or garden £30 or £40m St John's Wood mansion doesn't have, I wonder?

Do you think they thought, well it could be worth £40m and we'll just stick another 6.5m on in case no one notices!

I really dislike it! As others have said it looks like a hotel - an American one.

It'd be a nightmare to clean...

WestEast I might be wrong with this but you don't have to worry about the council tax as it would only be £2640.96 per annum as far as I can tell from Camden councils website. This highlights the flaw in current council tax rates rather nicely (if I'm correct obviously)

In that case I'll take it

One of the bedrooms on the second floor doesn't have any access to a bathroom whatsoever. If they needed a wee in the night the occupants would have to descend two flights of stairs to use the downstairs loo. That's a deal breaker for me I'm afraid.

Yuck. It is far too vulgar and I don't like all the black. No thanks.

I know, there is just so much wrong with it isn't there!

This whole advertising of expensive houses as Ambassadors' Residences is odd too - are there really countries out there spending this much on the residence? And surely that is quite a finite market, I mean there are only so many Ambassadors or High Commissioners to the UK?

Mintyy you can't get much in SJW for 30 mil these days

faints at cost

The painting in picture 13 - do you reckon it's, like, famous? Done by someone we'd know?

That painting is the one of Kate Winslet from Titanic.

oh that mirrored bathroom is ghastly. I think most of it's lovely though.

Is council tax still bonkers (we moved away from UK)?

I remember about 15 yrs ago I paid more for my teeny flat in surrey than my colleague did on his pile in Holland Park.

loving the painting in pic 13 (falls off sofa laughing...)

BTW max council tax in Hampstead is about £2.5k per annum so not an issue.

shall we all team up: about £20 each split between all of mumsnet?

The council tax in London is a joke, it really is max £2.5k in hampstead! We need a far more progressive council tax system.

So much money, so little taste !!

I don't think our Ikea furniture would fit in. On that basis, we'd have to completing re-furnish and that would be the sticking point for me.

Completing = completely

It's most frightfully vulgar.

They must have used a film set designer.

Who lived there?