article_snippet.sent: A 'perfect' mansion which has been sold for £51million in an exclusive part of London has become one of the UK's most expensive  homes - and the buyer also has to pay £7.6m in stamp duty.
article_snippet.sent: The sprawling house, built on the site of an old telephone exchange in Chelsea, west London, has been sold for 300 times the average price of home in England and WalesWales.
article_snippet.sent: This sprawling house, built on the site of an old telephone exchange in Chelsea, west LondonChelsea, west London, has been sold for 300 times the average price of home in England and Wales Wales .
article_snippet.sent: The transaction means The transaction is one of the most expensive homes to ever sell in the UK.
article_snippet.sent: The owner, who commissioned the mansion, had put This sprawling house, built on the site of an old telephone exchange in Chelsea, west London on the market for £55 million.
article_snippet.sent: This sprawling house, built on the site of an old telephone exchange in Chelsea, west London has now been bought by an offshore company  for £51,191,950, according to Land Registry figures.
article_snippet.sent: The huge tax bill, the equivalent to 15 per cent, is down to the buyer using a Bermuda-based company to buy The property.
article_snippet.sent: Under the Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED), which is payable by companies that own UK residential property, there is a further bill of £218,200 each year.
article_snippet.sent: The property has now been bought by an offshore company for £51,191,950, according to Land Registry figures .
highlights_snippet.sent: The house sold for 300 times average price of home in England and Wales .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mansion, marketed for £55m, been bought by  company based in Bermuda .
  