Adele sabotages sale of owner of £6m ‘haunted’ home

Adele  sabotages sale of  owner of £6m  'haunted' home

Adele has been accused of sabotaging the sale of Lock House with comments she made  during a TV interview in  2012.
Adele has been accused of sabotaging the sale of a £6m mansion  where she used to live  from its owners, who claim she once said it was  haunted.
The award-winning singer rented the Grade  II listed Lock House in Partridge Green, West Sussex, in  2012.
The owner has  applied for planning permission to  convert the property from a single dwelling  into three residential units and  to convert an existing garage and flat into a  detached cottage.
In the submission, the owner said comments made by Adele about the 10-bedroom house being haunted during an interview had hindered the  sales process.
"The first tenant, Adele, stayed for six months and  destroyed the  property, saying it  was haunted,"  he said. "That comment negatively impacted future marketing efforts and continues to  impact the reputation  of the property to this  day."
"Goosebumps"
Discussing Lock House in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS when she lived  in the property, Adele  said, "It's all  very creepy, really.
'I'm not  just wandering around  here.' It's confusing."
Adele did not use the word  "haunted" during the  interview.
After the singer  left the property, it was  put up for  sale again, but received no  offers.
It was then  leased to a tenant who wanted to use the property to run a  custom-made clothing business. But it was later discovered  that the tenant  operated a residential  shelter with 11 guest  rooms and a fitness camp,  according to the  application.
According to the application, the owner  had been actively  trying to sell the property for about 14  years.
The only offer ever received was in August 2020, but the prospective buyer  backed out after learning  of the  property's alleged haunted  state, he added.
Lock House was originally  built around 1909 before  undergoing a major reconstruction  program in  the 1940s.
In 1971, it was divided and  auctioned off into 26 separate lots. But it was  later acquired by the church and became the  Visitation Monastery.
The current owner  bought Lock House in 2003 from a property  dealer, who had previously purchased it after the  monastery moved to  Albourne.
According to its current listing, Lock House and its 32-acre estate  include 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a tennis court, a  helipad and a  cinema.
Selling for £5,995,000.