Rebekah Vardy Property Sale: Inside the £9.7m Villa Listing

Last updated: 1 November 2026

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In the summer of 2025, Rebekah Vardy and her husband, footballer Jamie Vardy, put their Portuguese holiday villa up for sale with an asking price of £9.7 million. The six-bedroom villa sits on the exclusive Quinta do Lago golf resort in the Algarve, a property the couple had long called their “sanctuary” and previously rented out for up to £30,000 a week. The listing followed years of legal bills from Rebekah’s failed “Wagatha Christie” libel case against Coleen Rooney, although a friend of the couple insisted the sale was simply about wanting a change. As of the latest public reports, the villa was listed for sale rather than confirmed sold — so the asking price, not a sale price, is the figure to remember.

3D illustration of a luxury Algarve villa with a golden key and for-sale sign

The £9.7 Million Villa in Quinta do Lago

The property at the centre of the story is a four-storey villa on the Quinta do Lago resort, one of the Algarve’s most exclusive addresses. The resort, part of the region’s so-called “Golden Triangle” alongside Vale do Lobo and Vilamoura, is built around championship golf courses and has long attracted wealthy British buyers looking for sun, privacy, and security.

According to the Knight Frank listing, the villa sits on around 0.64 acres, overlooking the 18th green of the resort’s North course, and offers six bedrooms, three swimming pools, a gym, a steam room, a sauna, a cinema room, and a roof terrace. Knight Frank called it a “magnificent property” that “showcases meticulous attention to lifestyle details.”

The £9.7 million asking price raised eyebrows even in a market as expensive as Quinta do Lago. Algarve property prices had risen strongly — by as much as 16 per cent according to some estimates quoted at the time — but one local agent, speaking anonymously, still described the Vardys’ price as being on the “optimistic side.” In recent years the Vardys had also rented the villa out for up to £30,000 a week, a figure that shows how strong demand is for high-end Algarve holiday lets — and makes the decision to sell it outright all the more interesting.

Why the Vardys Put the Villa Up for Sale

So why sell a beloved holiday home at all? The honest answer is that only the Vardys know for certain, and the public explanations point in two directions at once.

The first is timing. The listing appeared just as the financial aftermath of the Wagatha Christie case was still making headlines, and many reports connected the two: after losing her libel claim, Rebekah faced a legal bill running into millions of pounds, and selling a high-value asset is an obvious way to free up cash.

The second explanation came from the couple’s own circle. A friend dismissed suggestions of financial pressure, saying the family had enjoyed wonderful times at the villa but felt it was time for a change. That fits with a bigger change happening at exactly the same time: Jamie’s departure from Leicester City after 13 years and the family’s move to Italy, where he joined Serie A club Cremonese.

Both explanations can be true at once. A family can be financially comfortable, still face a large legal bill, and still genuinely want a fresh start. The sale is best understood as part of a wider reshuffle of the Vardys’ lives in 2025, rather than as a single desperate act or a single carefree decision.

The Wagatha Christie Bill Behind the Headlines

To understand why the sale made news, you need the backstory. The Wagatha Christie case began in 2019, when Coleen Rooney publicly accused Rebekah Vardy’s Instagram account of leaking stories from her private account to The Sun. Rebekah sued for libel, the case went to trial at the High Court in May 2022, and on 29 July 2022 the judge dismissed her claim, finding Rooney’s statements substantially true.

Losing the case was only the start of the financial pain. In October 2022, the judge ordered Rebekah to pay 90 per cent of Rooney’s legal costs on the indemnity basis — the highest basis a court can apply — plus an immediate interim payment of £800,000. Reports at the time of the villa listing put Rebekah’s total exposure at around £4 million, combining her payment towards Rooney’s costs with her own legal bill, reported to be more than £2 million.

The costs saga dragged on for years, with further hearings and an appeal against the costs order that was dismissed in April 2025. Then, in late October 2026, a judge was told the two sides had finally settled Rooney’s bill at almost £1.2 million, with a dispute remaining over additional assessment costs. That settlement came more than a year after the villa went on the market, so it does not change the context in which the sale was launched. The villa had also survived a dramatic episode of its own: in July 2022, while Rebekah was staying there with her children shortly after the trial, wildfires approached the resort, forcing neighbours to evacuate and leaving the family reliant on bottled water after supplies were cut.

The Vardys’ Property Story So Far

The Portuguese villa was never the Vardys’ only home. In 2015, Rebekah and Jamie bought Cloughmore House near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, a 5,900-square-foot mansion built in 1968 with eight bedrooms, set on 0.7 acres. They refurbished it extensively, fitted a smart-home system controlling lighting, sound, and heating from a phone, and then put it up for sale after about two years.

Their current main home is a large house near Grantham in Lincolnshire, which grew from eight bedrooms to twelve after planning permission for an extension was granted in 2020. It is the house the family returned to after their Italian adventure, and it remains their UK base.

Then came Italy. After Jamie left Leicester City in the summer of 2025, the family moved for his spell with Cremonese, documented in the ITV reality series The Vardys, which followed their house hunt and a Lake Garda villa reportedly worth £8 million. The chapter turned sour when masked raiders broke into that property and stole jewellery, leaving Rebekah shaken, and the family eventually returned to the UK. Letting go of the Portuguese villa looks less like a one-off headline than part of a family simplifying its property map after a turbulent few years.

Like many celebrity families, the Vardys’ homes have become part of their public story — just as fans follow the careers and fortunes of other famous faces, from Princess Andre’s growing fortune to former Fox News host Noelle Watters, former England footballer Karen Carney, and TV presenter Kate Connelly.

Has the Villa Actually Sold?

This is the question most readers actually want answered, and the honest answer is: there is no widely reported confirmation that the villa has sold, or at what price. What is firmly on the public record is the listing itself — a £9.7 million asking price through Knight Frank in the summer of 2025 — and the reporting around it. Asking prices and sale prices are very different things, especially at the top of the market, where negotiations are private and deals can take months or fall through entirely.

That distinction matters for anyone repeating the story. Headlines claiming “Rebekah Vardy sells villa for £9.7 million” overstate what is known. The accurate version is that she put the villa up for sale at £9.7 million. If a completed sale is ever confirmed publicly, it will most likely come from the family or their agents, since Portuguese property records are not published in the same way as UK house-price data. For the Vardys themselves, the listing marks the end of an era either way: the villa was bought for family summers, survived wildfires, earned rental income, and then became a symbol of the costliest chapter of Rebekah’s public life.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much was Rebekah Vardy’s Portuguese villa listed for?
The villa in Quinta do Lago was listed for sale at £9.7 million through estate agents Knight Frank in the summer of 2025.

Where is Rebekah Vardy’s villa?
It is on the Quinta do Lago golf resort in the Algarve, Portugal, overlooking the 18th green of the resort’s North course, on a plot of around 0.64 acres.

Did Rebekah Vardy sell the villa because of the Wagatha Christie case?
Reports linked the timing to her legal bills, estimated at around £4 million in total, but a friend of the couple said the sale was about wanting a change, and the family was also relocating to Italy at the time.

Has the villa been sold?
There is no widely reported confirmation of a completed sale. The public record shows a listing at £9.7 million; a final sale price, if a sale completed, has not been publicly confirmed.

Where do Rebekah and Jamie Vardy live now?
After their move to Italy for Jamie’s spell with Cremonese and a return to the UK, the family are back at their twelve-bedroom home near Grantham in Lincolnshire.

Faizi is a content writer at AllAboutFacts (hotteamnames.com), covering vocabulary, language tips, and everyday explainers.

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