With a personal fortune estimated at £300m Ed Sheeran has plenty of money to buy all the A-list trophies he wants, from yachts to private jets.
But in fact the savvy 33-year-old singer has invested a sizable proportion of his wealth in good old fashioned bricks and mortar, most of it in and around London.
His latest purchase is an £8.25m office building in Soho, thought to be his first major investment in commercial property.
Sheeran also owns at least 27 London homes, many in prime neighbourhoods like Holland Park, Notting Hill, and Covent Garden. Then there is the villa in Umbria, Italy, complete with vineyards, and the extraordinary £3.7m estate he has built up in Suffolk, close to where he was brought up. He shares the property with his wife Cherry, and their two daughters, Lyra Antarctica and Jupiter Seaborn.
The estate has been nicknamed "Sheeran-ville" and includes a main house, Wynneys Hall, which Sheeran bought in 2012, along with three adjacent houses. The private village compound has its own pub in a converted barn. When building the pub, Sheeran successfully applied for planning permission for a 16ft pub sign, The Lancaster Lock, in honour of his wife whose full name is Cherry Lancaster Seaborn.
Sheeranville also boasts a recording studio, a “place of worship”, a fruit orchard, luxury treehouse, kitchen garden and greenhouse, and an indoor swimming pool and fitness complex.
One of the most controversial elements of the property is the £500,000 heart-shaped pond, which Sheeran initially claimed was being built for the benefit of local wildlife and would not be used for swimming. He later had a change of heart and has successfully applied for permission to be allowed to use the pond for recreational uses including swimming.
Sheeran even posted a video of himself leaping into the water over the summer, to the disgust of neighbours who believe the site is being overdeveloped.
A Romany caravan parked by the water, which had been converted into a sauna, did not have planning consent and has since been removed.
The Sheerans’ London home is a circa-£20m home in Notting Hill. They bought the eight bedroom house in 2019, the same year they got married, later used it as the location for Sheeran’s DIY lockdown video Put it All On Me, and in 2022 embarked on a top to bottom renovation.
In 2019 Sheeran also opened Bertie Blossoms, a Portobello Road tapas and cocktail joint, just around the corner from the house and appears to treat it as an extension of his home. Earlier this year Bertie Blossoms was closed for a day as the family celebrated Jupiter Seaborn’s second birthday.
As well as family homes, Sheeran owns some £10m-worth of London investment property, including apartments in Wiverton Tower, Whitechapel, and houses in Queensdale Place and Portland Road, Holland Park, Queen Anne’s Gardens, Chiswick, and Findon Road, Hammersmith. There are also two flats on Floral Street, Covent Garden, and two more close to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
It is all a far cry from Sheeran’s first family home: a modest Victorian semi on Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, before the family moved to Framlingham, a market town where his parents are still based.
