Late TV paedophile Rolf Harris’s mansion remains unsold months after going on sale for £4m – as estate agent says it’s ‘overpriced’

Disgraced TV star Rolf Harris’ mansion remains unsold more than two months after it went on sale for £4million, with an estate agent branding it as ‘overpriced’. 

The luxury riverside property based in the picturesque village of Bray, Berkshire, was listed on the market in late April. 

It served as Harris’ final residence until he died from neck cancer in May 2023 at the age of 93, with the mansion modelled on his childhood home along Perth’s Swan River. 

But now, local estate agent Brian Warren has told The Mirror that he believed the property was originally worth £2million, rather than £4million, adding that it was ‘not cost effective’ to list the mansion at such a high price. 

He said: ‘Given the cost of renovation, it’s just not cost effective if you have to pay £4million for the property. They’re looking at paying another £1.5million on top of the price to rebuild it because its on the river.’

Describing the riverside home as ‘a mess’, he also remarked that no individual looking to buy at that price would have any desire to live in the home due to the ‘stigma’ it carries. 

In 2016, just one year before Harris was released from prison, his riverside home was pictured receiving a makeover from builders, with thousands of pounds spent on renovating the mansion in preparation for his return.

Now, the Thames side mansion that Harris retreated in prior to his death is struggling to sell. While there have been some viewings, no deals have been agreed, the Mirror reported.

Disgraced TV star Rolf Harris’ (pictured) mansion has remained unsold two months after it went on sale for £4million, with an estate agent branding it ‘overpriced’. The luxury riverside property based in Bray, Berkshire, was listed on the market in late April

The luxury home (pictured) served as Harris’ final residence until he died from neck cancer in May 2023 at the age of 93, with the mansion modelled on his childhood home along Perth ‘s Swan River

Local estate agent Brian Warren has told The Mirror that he believed the property (pictured), which he described as ‘a mess’ was originally worth £2million, rather than £4million, adding that it was ‘not cost effective’ to list the mansion for such a high price, the Mirror has reported

In 2014, Harris was jailed for five years and nine months after being convicted at Southwark Crown Court of 12 indecent assault which took place between 1968 and 1986. 

A trial exposed an avalanche of evidence showing his disturbing behaviour towards women and girls, including abusing a close friend of his daughter, Bindi Nicholls, over the course of 16 years as well as an eight-year-old girl seeking an autograph and two girls in their early teens.

He was released on parole in May 2017 after serving three years behind bars.

Of the 12 convictions, one was overturned on appeal in November 2017, and a jury chose not to convict him in two additional cases in the same year.

In May, MailOnline revealed that Harris’ widow Alwen, who died in August 2024, left a fortune of just under £4million to their daughter Ava Reeves, who used to be known as Bindi Harris. 

In Harris’ will, dated in 2018 before he died, the disgraced entertainer was shown to have left £3,840,532 to his daughter. 

The amount appears to confirm suspicions that the disgraced former children’s entertainer ‘shielded’ his fortune to avoid legal claims from his victims, even after his death.

Initially after his death, it was said that Harris had left a £16million fortune that he amassed during his successful career to his wife Alwen Hughes and daughter Bindi, 60.

However, probate documents seen by the Sun show that his assets were said to be worth just £438,802 when he died.

In 2016, just one year before Harris was released from prison, his riverside home was pictured receiving a makeover from builders, with thousands of pounds spent on renovating the mansion in preparation for his return

 In 2014, Harris was jailed for five years and nine months after being convicted at Southwark Crown Court of 12 indecent assault which took place between 1968 and 1986 (Pictured: Harris at his riverside home in 1995)

In May, MailOnline revealed that Harris’ widow Alwen left a fortune of just under £4million to their daughter Ava Reeves, who used to be known as Bindi Harris. Pictured: Bindi and the family of three seen walking into Southwark Crown Court during Harris’ first trial in 2014

And the net value of his estate was £0 when expenses were taken out.

Ex-detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who played a role in convicting the disgraced performer, said at the time: ‘This is yet another disgrace.

‘He has obviously planned to get rid of money and assets and there is no way he’d have actually been penniless,’ he said.

‘He had amassed a huge amount of wealth and I would assume he has squirreled it away to avoid victims making claims on it, even after his death.

‘The man had no shame.’

The will contains a codicil, or revision, which was made in March 2022, leaving Ava as the sole family executor of the will and removing Rolf Harris’s sister Jennifer Harris as a co-executor with Ava.

Ava stood by her father along with Alwen, while he was on trial for sexual of underage girls in 2014, even though one of Harris’s victims was a close childhood friend. 

In April, Ava was seen emptying the property. At the time, a source told the Mirror: ‘She wants to sell it, but she doesn’t desperately need the money and is in no rush, so she’s determined to hold out for a good price.’

She reportedly changed her name to Ava in order to get away from the legacy of her father’s name and to build her own career as an artist.

It also comes as Harris’ personal firm, RHE Investments, is set to be officially closed by liquidators on July 25 – giving his family a £1.2million pay day and lumping HMRC with a £122k refund bill.

 In April, Ava was seen emptying the property. At the time, a source told the Mirror: ‘She wants to sell it, but she doesn’t desperately need the money and is in no rush, so she’s determined to hold out for a good price.’ Pictured: Rolf Harris and his wife Alwen outside of his home in the 80s

It also comes as Harris’ personal firm, RHE Investments, is set to be officially closed by liquidators on July 25 – giving his family a £1.2million pay day and lumping HMRC with a £122k refund bill. Pictured: Harris and his wife Alwen leaving Southwark Crown Court

Harris, once a much-loved presenter, rose to fame in his early 20’s when he moved to England, became an art student and found work in television at the BBC, performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in a children’s show – Jigsaw

The disgraced TV star set up RHE Investments to handle a substantial part of his multi-million fortune in 2012.

The wind up process of the company began five months after he died in May 2023 and now that it’s being dissolved it means a nice lump sum for his niece, Jennifer Harris, who lives in Australia.

His niece stood by him when he faced indecent assault charges, and she moved to close the company and signed the Declaration of Solvency from Sydney.

She also attended numerous court hearings with Harris and is a director of two of his companies.

The final report was filed on April 25, with around £1.2million going to Jennifer after paying liquidator and accountant fees of £9k.

But the company was also due a refund for £127,474 from HMRC.

Harris, once a much-loved presenter, rose to fame in his early 20’s when he moved to England, became an art student and found work in television at the BBC, performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in a children’s show – Jigsaw.

He went on to illustrate Harbin’s Paper Magic program in 1956 and quickly became a regular on other BBC television shows.

The disgraced paedophile was brought to justice in 2014, in one of the prosecutions brought by the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Yewtree – an investigation into historical behaviour by celebrities

It was understood that Harris’ health began to take a turn for the worse after the sudden death of his poodle (Pictured: Harris and his PA Lisa Ratcliff in April 2022)

Harris and his wife Alwen pictured at the Berkshire mansion in 1995. Following his release from jail, Harris is believed to have retreated at the property

Harris moved back to Australia in 1959 and tried his hand as an actor, before inventing the wobbleboard – and used it in his song ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport’.

Known for a string of children’s TV hits, Harris also painted the 80th birthday portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

He was the face of British Paints for more than three decades before he was dumped by the brand when he was arrested in 2013.

The disgraced paedophile was brought to justice in 2014, in one of the prosecutions brought by the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Yewtree – an investigation into historical behaviour by celebrities. 

Sentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said Harris, 84, had taken advantage of his celebrity status and had shown ‘no remorse’.

One victim said the abuse had taken away her ‘childhood innocence’.

In 2022, it was understood that Harris’ health began to take a turn for the worse after the sudden death of his poodle.

He had been struggling to talk after cancerous tumours grew in his neck after he was freed from jail and was being fed through a tube before his death.

The former TV entertainer’s death certificate revealed that he died of ‘metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of neck’ – the medical term for neck cancer – and ‘frailty of old age’.