The Tonz Buys a House ..........

Well done Tonz, I'll keep in touch when I'm popping over for the weekend.
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/670033770?-294:802

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Multi-millionaire Queens Park Rangers owner and business tycoon snaps us Scots stately home at cut price

26 Sep 2013 08:01
TONY FERNANDES, who also owns Airline AirAsia and the Caterham F1 team, has bought Ayrshire's Skeldon House for less than half of the £6.95 million wanted in 2008


Accountant Fernandez meets with the seller’s approvalAccountant Fernandez meets with the seller’s approval
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THE multi-millionaire jet-setting owner of a top English football club and a Formula 1 team has bought a Scottish stately home.

Flamboyant Tony Fernandes could bring a trail of international celebrity guests to secluded Skeldon House, in Ayrshire.

The 49-year-old dad of two owns English Championship leaders Queens Park Rangers and the Caterham F1 team and hosts The Apprentice in Asia.

Fernandes also owns the AirAsia airline and a hotel chain and has billionaire associates including F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and Sir Richard Branson.

The Malaysian-born accountant has now acquired Skeldon, near Dalrymple, after agreeing a deal with long-term
owner Stanley Brodie QC.

He confirmed: “I have sold the house to quite a distinguished gentleman called Mr Tony Fernandes.

“He owns Queens Park Rangers Football Club and is the founder and owner of Air Asia, the biggest no-frills airline in the Far East.

Skeldon House in AyrshireSkeldon House in Ayrshire
“He seems a very acceptable fellow.”

Fernandes has a net worth of around £400million. It is thought he paid £2.5million for the house and 140 acres of parkland.

Skeldon had languished on the market since the B-listed Georgian pile was first offered for sale along with two farms and a lodge for £6.95million in 2008.

Brodie said he plans to stay on in the lodge at Balgreen.

Nine years ago, he split from his wife, the judge Dame Elizabeth Gloster, after she left him for another man. He said: “It really didn’t make any sense for a single octogenarian to be living in a large house all on his own with magnificent gardens that only I ever saw.

“We were there for 27 years and now my children have flown the nest and I no longer have a wife and I am 83 years old.

“Time moves on and the time came to sell the house on to someone who can afford to keep it and look after it well, which I am sure Mr Fernandes will do.”

The Weir engineering family were owners of Skeldon before Brodie.

The house was built in 1760 for General Fullarton before passing to the Duke of Portland in 1867. It boasts 1.8 miles of double-bank salmon fishing, a pheasant shoot, fine gardens with tennis court and a courtyard featuring gardener’s and chauffeur’s cottages.

Fernandes will certainly enjoy privacy at Skeldon, which is described as “truly magical” by the Ayr office of estate
agents CKD Galbraith.

 

Ayreshire?? Not exactly handy for Loftus Road is it?

.... Maybe he's planning to snap up Kilmarnock.

 

Maybe the next time Harry wants to take the squad away for team building destination will be Ayrshire instead of Dubai!

 

Have you not seen the pics of his jet? He could get from there to LR in the time it takes someone from the east end. Interesting to see it quote he's now worth 400 million, he was only worth half that 2 years ago. But seeing as he owns the fastest growing airline in the world, he could rival Mittal in 10 years.

 

That's why I don't worry about the finances of the club - this bloke knows his stuff, makes mistakes certainly but learns from them and comes back stronger. He was arguing in favour of Financial Fair Play a few days ago (contrary to what most fans of other clubs would believe) and voted in favour of it last year - he wants something similar in F1 - when he set up Caterham he had been promised that a spending cap of something like £60m a year per team would be enforced, of course Ferrari and Red Bull have put the mockers on that. Apparently he has delivered on his promise to distance himself from the F1 team, has been rarely seen at races this year.

 

Those black and white tiles have to go!

 

I can't see him replacing them with a blue and white hoop design....

 

He will need to put a Stannah Stairlift on that staircase before BZ visits..

 

Interesting that he hosts The Apprentice in Asia - guess who does it in Italy?

 

I think that it is extremely good of him. I'm popping up in a few weeks to stay for a couple of months.

Well, I read the headline:

"Multi-millionaire Queens Park Rangers owner and business tycoon snaps us Scots stately home at cut price ..."

Will we all fit in there?

 

Give it a bloody good go! I wouldn't mind just camping in the grounds and popping in for a fry up in the mornings.

 

Could be a good place for a promotion party! Tony lays on some jets to fly us all up, set up some marquee's, lovely jubbly.

 

Good taste in sofas though

 

If it needs rewiring Tone, leave me a PM.

 

Get a nice big TV put in and I'll pop down on match days and look after it for Tony, or maybe he can give me a lift, only 45mins from me!

 

I just happen to be selling a house at the moment; wonder would he buy mine seeing as he's in the mood?

 

I would keep them and get rid of the house ... me joko ... I would in some nice ash laminate flooring from Homebase as lino would be too expensive

 

Could turn the grounds into a very pleasant 9 hole golf course and we could have the annual QPRNOT606 golf outing there with accomadation on site......

 

Hmmm wouldn't say no to a day's shooting Tone, just had my Beretta serviced too

Hmmm roast Grouse..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/roastedyoungearlysea_88201