Michael Schumacher's holiday home sold as F1 legend battles on with slow recovery

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER'S family have sold off their holiday home in Norway for a little under £2million as the F1 legend continues his painfully slow recovery at his Swiss lakeside home.

Michael Schumacher's family has sold their holiday homeGETTY

Michael Schumacher's family has sold their holiday home

Observers see the sale of the home - coming just months after Michael's wife Corinna sold his private jet for 25 million pounds - as further proof that the former star of the world's racetracks will not be going anywhere soon. 

But a newspaper said the family planned the sale before the ski accident which left him comatose and paralysed and that negotiations to sell it were actually suspended while he was being treated for his brain injuries. 

The prospective new family had a real wow! experience when they came to see it

Petter Birkrem

The sale of the ski chalet in Trysil in the province of Hedmark was reported today in German newspaper Bild. Some 130 miles north east from the capital Oslo, the wooden house was built to Schumi's specifications in the mid 1990's on a huge piece of land providing for 645 square metres of living space and a garage capable of housing seven cars. 

It also has a gym, sauna and whirpool baths and luxuriously equipped kitchen. Michael used to train with the local football team when he was there and helped out with the financing of a new sports hall for locals. 

It was, said Bild, a getaway retreat for the 46-year-old star whose life changed dramatically on December 29 2013 when he smashed his head on to hidden rocks while skiing in the French resort of Meribel. 

He spent months in a coma, a short spell in a Swiss clinic and, since September last year, has been care for by a staff of 15 specialists at a medical suite crafted from rooms at his £35million mansion in Gland, Switzerland. 

Estate agent Petter Birkrem told Bild; "I cannot say who has bought the house. We began showing the property at the beginning of the winter holiday. The prospective new family had a real wow! experience when they came to see it." 

There are no photos of the interior of the house: Bikrem added: "Here Schumacher was in his private zone and undisturbed by the media." 

People who asked to view the house had to give written undertakings not to secretly photograph inside. 

There were only four potential buyers, he said.

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