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NEW PRICE: £6.99 million OLD PRICE: £7.7 million ACTOR Ricky Gervais and his partner, writer Jane Fallon, bought this fairly ordinary-looking five-bedroom house in Hampstead for £3.4 million in 2006.

They have also angered their neighbours — by creating a basement ‘leisure suite’ with swimming pool which cost a reported £1 million.

Despite all that work, the pair have now upgraded to a £10.5 million mansion nearby. They also own two apartments in New York and recently spent £2.75million on a plush riverside property in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.