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Football fan stakes £1.4m home on home club’s success

February 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM Lawrence Hall 1 comment

This is a legacy post from the findaproperty.com blog which is now maintained as an archive within the Zoopla blog. Links have been preserved.

Even the most self-assured Premier League player would think twice before staking their home on a winning season, but that’s exactlywhat one UK football fan has done.

Martin Senior has vowed to give a full refund to whoever buys his £1.4m house in Hove, East Sussex if his favourite football club makes it to the Premier League.

The four-bedroom home has an asking price of £1.4m but comes with a rather unusual clause - Senior will pay back every penny to the buyer if Brighton and Albion FC get promoted.

Martin Senior’s Hove home is on the market for £1.4m, but he says he’ll refund every penny if his team makes it into the Premier League. Credit: Andrew Hasson / Rex Features

The odds on the Championship team making it to the Premier League are currently 10-1. The team is in ninth position with 49 points and is two points off a play-off place with 15 games to play.

Senior, a sculpter, designed and built the home himself. It includes a large open-plan living room and kitchen with doors opening out onto a tropical garden. As well as a guest suite and two further bedrooms, the master bedroom suite comes complete with a roof terrace and sea views.

See more pictures of the home.

Anyone – not just football fanatics – can buy the house, but Senior has urged a fellow Seagulls fan to step forward.

“It would be the perfect end to the season for an Albion fan – a free house and their team in the Premier League,” Senior says.

Entry filed under: Buying & Selling. Tags: footballers, Home, home for sale, Hove.