With the Rolling Stones rumbling across America on tour until next March, London’s swankiest developers are eagerly awaiting the return of Mick Jagger. After nearly two years of serial viewings, professional revampers understand Jagger is still searching for a swanky home in west London. All hope to be the one to extract a big payment from the famously thrifty star. “Every property priced over £5m, you think ‘let’s try Jagger, ’” says one leading developer. During his nomadic period, the snake-hipped sexagenerian is said to have run up some impressive bills at Claridge’s hotel.
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Could it be time for Eddy Grant to drop the £19m price tag on Bayleys plantation, the veteran musician’s sprawling estate in Barbados? The man who gave us Electric Avenue and I Don’t Wanna Dance put Bayleys on the market in January, but there have been no takers for the 15-bedroom home and recording studio, overlooking the island’s rugged east coast. Maybe it could make a retirement home for that recent visitor to Barbados — and pop-lover — Tony Blair.