{"id":362909,"date":"2025-08-21T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362909\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:18:21","slug":"katie-price-ni-man-buys-katie-prices-cursed-mucky-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362909\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Price: NI man buys Katie Price’s cursed “Mucky Mansion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Mercer (62) paid \u00a31.15m for the reportedly \u2018cursed\u2019 dilapidated mansion, which had been on the market for \u00a31.35m.<\/p>\n

The keen cyclist and father of two owns bought the property with his partner, Leike Qu, who said the couple they \u201cfell in love\u201d with the detached Tudor-era inspired home.<\/p>\n

\"Katie<\/p>\n

Katie Price outside her “Mucky Mansion”<\/p>\n

The couple purchased the home back earlier this year in January, months after Price was evicted from home after failing to pay her mortgage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are just very ordinary and quiet people who fell in love with this country house,\u201d Qu told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

The couple are understood to be investing in the property\u2019s revamp, with the exterior now covered in scaffolding.<\/p>\n

According to the Daily Mail, Mr Mercer\u2019s business involves selling household furniture. <\/p>\n

Price bought the troubled mansion back in 2014 for \u00a32 million, and lived in the home for a decade. <\/p>\n

The former model previously claimed the nine-bedroom West Sussex property was \u201ccursed\u201d after a series of unfortunate events including break-ins and numerous pets dying. <\/p>\n

\"Bathroom<\/p>\n

Bathroom in the mansion <\/p>\n

The decade of misfortune for the family lead her 18-year-old daughter, Princess Andre<\/a> to call the residency a \u201cvery scary place\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rubbish has piled up both inside and outside of the home amid Price\u2019s previous attempt to renovate the property, which was the subject of a 2022 documentary \u201cKatie Price\u2019s Mucky Mansion\u201d. <\/p>\n

Before the property was put on the market by HJ Burt, it had been tended to by contract cleaners. The condition of the mansion reportedly made it difficult for Price to find a buyer. <\/p>\n

Price has claimed that the ten year battle to renovate the home and the other misfortunes led her to seek therapy after battling anxiety.<\/p>\n

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“It is absolutely cursed. My anxiety got worse in that house.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI hate that house. Whoever buys it, I warn them, they will get bad luck there,\u201d Price told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is absolutely cursed. My anxiety got worse with that house. There was a point when I couldn\u2019t even walk up the driveway without having a panic attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had therapy about the house. I should never have gone back there. Now I am out of it, it\u2019s the best thing I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Mercer (62) paid \u00a31.15m for the reportedly \u2018cursed\u2019 dilapidated mansion, which had been on the market for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[108813,6333,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-362909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-gabrielle-swan","9":"tag-housing","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115068607388206857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}