This is the family that bought a $1.5m fire-damaged Tennessee mansion

A mansion successful Tennessee that was severely charred successful a occurrence has recovered a purchaser aft conscionable 4 days connected the market.

Entrepreneur Mike Thakur said helium has purchased the five-acre property, which has attracted much than 340,000 views connected Zillow and was listed for $1.49m (£1.21m), according to the existent property site.

The achromatic mansion is shown up successful flames successful photos connected the site.

It is to beryllium sold arsenic is aft "tragic nonaccomplishment by fire", the realtor wrote.

That description, on with fiery photos of the property, captured Mr Thakur and his wife's attention, helium told the BBC.

The brace - natives of the United Kingdom who present unrecorded successful Houston, Texas with their 3 children - had been searching for homes adjacent Nashville, Tennessee erstwhile they came crossed the property.

Mr Thakur scheduled a sojourn of the location earlier its Zillow listing was shared implicit a cardinal times connected Twitter, and wrong hours of touring the mansion with his family, they each agreed to spot an offer.

"It's incredible," helium said. "It's the location connected the apical of the hill."

"We'd been looking for thing we could benignant of renovate and marque our own," helium added. "I'm not definite we anticipated rather truthful galore renovations, but we decided we'd spell for the challenge."

He did not uncover however overmuch the household paid for the property.

The mansion, located successful the metropolis of Franklin - astir 21 miles (33km) southbound of Nashville - burst into flames portion a operation idiosyncratic was wrong the location past September, according to section quality outlet WZTV Nashville.

The flames caused the extortion to illness earlier firefighters could quell it, according to WZTV, which reported that the idiosyncratic sustained non life-threatening injuries during the blaze.

But the sprawling spot has respective features that marque the location worthy salvaging, according to the listing.

The mansion, which was built successful 1997, features a ample outdoor room and a backyard with a "private parkland similar setting".

It besides has a impermanent location that was untouched by the fire, wherever Mr Thakur said helium and his household volition enactment portion they remake the home.

The property's listing agent, Paula Duvall, said she had "no idea" the listing would summation truthful overmuch attraction erstwhile she posted it. "We wanted to beryllium transparent astir the past of the home," she said.

She said radical person been capable to subordinate to the emotion down the pictures of the location taken the time of the fire. "I deliberation that grabbed them," she said.

The harm did not fuss Mr Thakur's family. He said they expect they'll person to "rip retired everything down to the studs".

"It sounds crazy, but for maine it was astir a blessing due to the fact that it gives america an excuse to propulsion everything down and rebuild it the mode that we privation to," helium said.

Mr Thakur said helium wants to crook the mansion into a much relaxed, English-style location wherever their teenagers could besides unrecorded erstwhile they get married. He added that they hoped to salvage what they could.

They program to papers the translation connected Mr Thakur's YouTube channel, wherever he's already posted a little circuit of the debris-filled home.

"We're not location flippers ... We're conscionable a household raiding the piggy banks," helium said. "We're each beauteous stoked."