Lamine Yamal buys Pique-Shakira mansion for 9.5m euros

Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal has completed the purchase of the mansion long associated with former Barcelona defender Gerard Pique and singer Shakira, Spanish reports said, signing final paperwork this week at a notary in Esplugues de Llobregat. The 18 year old, one of world football's most prominent teenagers, is reported to have paid about 9.5 million euros for the property, which was first put on the market after Pique and Shakira separated in 2022.

The estate, built in 2012, consists of three separate buildings across roughly 3,800 square feet and includes a main residence with two houses, a tennis court, indoor and outdoor swimming pools and a recording studio. One of the three buildings has already been sold separately, a transaction that Spanish reports say reduced the value of the remaining property from earlier asking prices in the low to mid teens of millions of euros to the current figure. Reports also say Yamal plans to carry out renovations to adapt the home to his needs.

Yamal has in recent months bought residences for family members, and accounts say he intends to live at the property with a cousin and a friend. He posted photographs from outside the house on...