Pink Floyd member tries to sell house he doesn’t actually own

Music legend Dave Gilmour is facing a highly unusual dilemma after discovering the house he bought years ago and has lived in since doesn’t belong to him – and never did. 

The Pink Floyd guitarist purchased Medina House in Sussex, UK in 2011, but only discovered recently that the house was actually owned by the government, The Mirror reports. 

“Imagine thinking you own a house for over a decade, particularly one worth £10-15 million, but then when you want to sell it, you discover you can’t because in fact technically legal ownership may have passed to the State,” says Nick Brett, partner at Brett Wilson LLP. 

“It must have come as a huge shock when he found out.” 

Gilmour originally purchased the house in 2011 through his firm, Hoveco Ltd. 

In 2014, the company was dissolved, but due to an accidental admin error, ownership of the property wasn’t transferred to him. 

Under UK law, if assets of a business are not transferred before a company is dissolved, it automatically passes to the Crown. 

Gilmour has now gone to the High Court asking for a court order to transfer the house into his name so he can sell it. 

Medina House is still listed for sale with Pereds for £10 million ($AU19.4 million). 

It was originally a Victorian era ladies’ bathing house, and was converted into a five-bedroom family home in 2020. 

Along with three bathrooms, a library, a gym, sauna, wine cellar, glasshouse and sunken garden, Medina House comes with its very own music studio. 

There is even space to store canoes, in case you fancy a jaunt along Hove Beach.