Season › 2024-25 › Opinion › Talking Points Royal Liver Building is sold for £60M by Michael Kenrick | 22/07/2025 5 Comments [Jump to last] The Royal Liver Building has been sold to Princes Foods for £60M – a sum that is £30M lower than the price put on the Grade I-listed building back in 2022. Everton FC's corporate offices are on the 7th Floor of the building on the Liverpool waterfront. They relocated there from Goodison Park in 2018 on a 15-year lease after former Everton majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, became part-owner of the building in a deal with Luxembourg-based investor Corestate Capital; they acquired the building for £48M. But just 3 years later, it was put on the market with a £90M price tag, presumably in an attempt to secure a quick return on the investment; however, there was no buyer forthcoming until Prince's Foods, one of the bigger tenants in the building, completed this latest change in ownership for £60M. The Royal Liver Building was completed in July 1911. It was opened as the purpose-built headquarters of the fast-growing Royal Liver Assurance Society, which had been set up in 1850. It is an early example of a building constructed using reinforced concrete. It stands 322 ft tall to the top of the spires and 340 ft to the top of the famous Liver Birds, known as Bertie and Bella. Each Liver Bird is 18 ft high and, according to legend, if the birds were ever to fly away then the city would die. In 2011, the Royal Liver Group was taken over by Royal London Group in a deal that also included ownership of the Royal Liver Building. By that point, Royal Liver staff occupied only part of the site with other floors let out to multiple business tenants. In 2016, Royal London put the building up for sale with a price tag of £40M. Return to Talking Points index : Add your Comments » Reader Comments (5) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer () Scott Hamilton 1 Posted 22/07/2025 at 09:57:09 I see The Royal Liver Building has been sold to Princes Foods.So ends Moshiri's connection with the building and any that we had as a club. Paul Hewitt 2 Posted 22/07/2025 at 10:10:47 I would think at some point all the Everton staff at the Royal Liver Building will eventually move to the new stadium. Michael Kenrick 3 Posted 22/07/2025 at 21:08:12 So ends Moshiri's connection with the building and any that we had as a club.I'm going to have to break that down a little bit, Scott: So ends Moshiri's connection with the buildingYes, I would imagine you are correct — he may have made more of a return on this investment than he did in Everton!So ends any connection with the building that we had as a club.You may be right… but the information I have is that the club is still renting those blinged-out offices on the 7th floor and they are only partway through a 15-year lease. The annual rent is well over £½M, and goes up every year.But strange that the corporate offices of Everton FC Co Ltd never relocated there, and are still registered at Goodison Park, even now. That I would expect to change. Paul Kossoff 4 Posted 22/07/2025 at 21:18:00 Should have been a condition in that sale, £60 million, ok, but under no circumstances can you ever, ever, sell it to those red bastards!!! Not in this life, the next life, or any universe in any dimensions that exist Ever!!! Okay!!!I can just see a couple of vultures hovering over the Liver buildings soon enough. Trevor Powell 5 Posted 22/07/2025 at 23:32:12 Why no sardine or tuna chunk puns? Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. How to get rid of these ads and support TW © ToffeeWeb