Addison Lee founder’s London mansion once asking £32m sells for £11.5m

John Griffin, the founder of London taxi company Addison Lee, experienced what can only be described as a bad day after selling his London mansion overlooking Regent’s Park, leaving him with a loss of about £9.2 million, according to a report by The Telegraph. He bought the six-bedroom house on Hanover Terrace in 2013 for £20.7 million. Thirteen years later, the mansion was sold for £11.5 million. For a man who once sold his taxi firm for a fortune, this property gamble wasn’t quite worth it.Sold for nearly half the price he paid 13 years agoThe mansion sits on Hanover Terrace, in the heart of Regent’s Park. Part of a Regency-era row, the six-bedroom mansion was designed by the architect John Nash.