FATBOY Slim and his neighbours are preparing to welcome two new millionaires to their upmarket address.

Two £3 million properties are currently listed for sale in Western Esplanade, Hove, which has long been dubbed “millionaires’ row”.

Between them they measure almost 6,000 square feet – almost the size of three tennis courts – and both back directly on to their own private section of the beach near Hove Lagoon.

The less expensive of the two – which will set you back £2,850,000 – is a five-bedroom terrace with a cellar for its new owner’s doubtless expensive wine collection and a huge, T-shaped first-floor sun terrace with “panoramic sea views”.

Photos show white-walled rooms lit by crystal chandeliers and tall archways which give the open-plan home the feeling of a Mediterranean villa or Moorish palace.

The home has been owned by the family of the current owner ever since Western Esplanade was created as a row of exclusive summer homes for wealthy Londoners in the 1920s.

So this will be the first time it has gone on the market and could well pass in to the hands of a celebrity owner - after all, Western Esplanade has been home to Heartbeat’s Nick Berry, Norman Cook and Zoe Ball, Adele and even Sir Paul McCartney.

The larger of the two properties, listed with a guide price of £3 million to £3.5 million, is a four-bedroom villa with palatial rooms which have three-metre ceilings and are drenched in light coming in through an all-glass south wall with views of the private beach.

The current owners have decorated their living room with minimalist seafront-inspired art and even have an ornate telescope with which to enjoy their private view across the sea.

The listings for the properties warn buyers that these exclusive homes very rarely come to market.

Rightmove calculates that once a buyer had cleared the £300,000 deposit for the villa, a reasonable mortgage should only set you back £14,000 per month.

Experts recommend spending no more than 30 per cent of income on repayments, so that puts this beachfront villa easily within your price range… as long as you earn a £1 million every two years.