Liam Payne listed luxury mansion for sale a month before his death

A new details has added to the mystery surrounding the death of the former One Direction star in a balcony fall.

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne had listed his $A6.2 million house for sale, just one month before he tragically died.

The 31-year-old had lived in the mansion in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire since November 2021 to be close to his ex-partner Cheryl Tweedy and his son Bear.

Payne died on October 16 after falling from the third floor of the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel in Buenos Aires – a month after he put the multimillion-dollar property up for sale.

The detached property is set on six acres of land and features a swimming pool, a separate one-bedroom annex, and a stable.

However, the listing has since been removed from the Rightmove site, although it was last listed in September 2024.

One of the final social media posts before Payne’s death on October 16 shows the singer playing with his pet dog at his Chalfont St Giles property.

Flowers were left outside his Chalfont home after news broke that he had passed away. Residents admitted that the singer was “very private” in the Buckinghamshire village.

It comes as a new theory emerged on what may have pushed the desperate star to make the fatal decision to climb over his balcony in Argentina.

Fame could be very lonely for Liam Payne. Picture: AFP

A newly resurfaced podcast interview with Payne taped three years before his death gives an insight into what may have been going through the troubled young singer’s mind at the time.

Payne appeared on the The Diary of a CEO podcast in 2021 where he candidly confessed touring as a teenager and being squirrelled away in a hotel for his own safety due to the intensity of his fans “really f****d me up”.

“My dad said it from day one – lonely hotel rooms, man – getting locked in that room is not fun when you’ve been exposed,” Payne said.

Despite his success, Liam Payne was trouble. Picture: AFP

During the height of their popularity when Payne and his bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson were just 14, they would be routinely mobbed at airports and when getting out of cars.

Multiple media reports citing witness accounts state on the day Payne died he had been locked inside his hotel room despite explicitly telling staff he would try to escape if they did that to him.

It was with his vow to escape via the balcony in mind that a hotel staff member called emergency services.

Fans relentlessly pursued the members of One Direction often causing them to be locked in their hotel rooms for their own safety. Picture: AFP

“I don’t know whether his life may be in danger. He is in a room with a balcony, and, well, we’re a little afraid,” the staffer said according to a transcript of the emergency call.

Shortly after his death, a guest staying on the floor below Payne found a leather bag containing pills, a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, and a note which read “for Liam” had been dropped on their balcony.

A month before he died, Payne reportedly tried to escape the home he was renting in Florida after security locked him in over concerns he had relapsed on drugs.

On that occasion, he is said to have used a garden hose to abseil down the balcony.

Originally published as Liam Payne listed luxury mansion for sale a month before his death