Michael Gove and his ex-wife are promoting the household residence for £400,000 lower than its estimated market worth.
The Tory housing minister and newspaper columnist Sarah Vine listed the five-bed pile in west London for £2,095,000.
It's now offered topic to contract,.
They purchased it for £2million in April 2017 and, in the event that they get the asking value, will make lower than a 5 per cent revenue.
Some housing web sites recommend it's now price as a lot as £2.5million.
Property brokers describe the property – with a library, railed balcony and walled backyard – as “oozing type”.
A supply final evening mentioned: “It’s stunning they haven’t held out for a greater supply, however I feel they each simply needed it over and completed with.
“It’s comprehensible they didn’t need the sale to pull on, significantly for the sake of their kids. It permits them each to maneuver on.”
The sale comes 4 months after a choose granted a divorce in “lower than 10 seconds” primarily based on the Cupboard minister’s “unreasonable behaviour” and that “the wedding had irretrievably damaged down”.
They cut up final July after virtually 20 years of marriage and had beforehand shared the property with their two kids.
Gove, whose official title is Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, has been residing within the luxurious “grace-and-favour” Carlton Gardens residence in Westminster, often reserved for the International Secretary.
He's mentioned to have moved into the £25million property on the finish of 2021 at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s insistence.
The PM, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chief Whip are all political positions which come full with a grace-and-favour residence.
However Gove, 54, is believed to be the primary with the comparatively junior put up of Housing Minister to be given the privilege.
Carlton Gardens has a ballroom, two eating rooms and a three-bedroom house – all a far cry from the Tory politician’s childhood residence in Aberdeen.
Gove spent the primary 4 months of his life in care after being given up shortly after beginning by his organic mom.
He was adopted by Ernest and Christine Gove, who introduced him up in a three-bed semi.
Vine, 55, was born in Swansea however introduced up in Italy the place her dad labored as an accountant.
She moved again to England aged 16 and began out as a journalist on the Day by day Mirror. She is godmother to one among former PM David Cameron’s daughters.
In an interview about her marriage cut up she denied Gove had strayed, saying: “Regardless of the rumours, his solely mistress was politics. That’s what he's in love with.”
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