An overseas billionaire is renting a London mega-mansion for £1 million a year so he can try it before he buys it

• An overseas billionaire is renting a London mega-mansion for £1 million for the year, the city’s biggest ever rent deal.
• The wealthy family wanted to try out the property to see if they want to buy it — and are paying £84,000 a month to do so.
• The five-storey Grade II-listed “mega mansion” is the largest private house in Westminster and the West End.

A billionaire in London has agreed to pay £1 million to rent a mega-mansion for just one year in the city’s biggest ever “try-before-you-buy” deal.

The deal, made by estate agents Rokstone, will see an “ultra-wealthy international family from overseas” pay £84,000 a month to relocate to the 11,080 square foot property, the largest private house in Westminster and the West End.

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