George Michael's older sister, Yioda Panayiotou, finally has the Hampstead mansion he owned in London looking shipshape again after shelling out for some major renovations. Panayiotou inherited the £10million pad after the Wham! singer died suddenly on Christmas day in 2016 at the age of 53. Michael originally bought the property in 1987, and went on to live in it for several years.

However, it was left collapsing into a state of ruin when the hitmaker started spending the majority of his time in his Oxfordshire country home, staying in his Highgate mansion only when he ventured to London. Last year Mail Online published photos of the Hampstead house that showed just how dilapidated it had become since Michael's death, but Panayiotou has turned the place around since then.

Despite making the house into a home, neighbours were furious when her design team asked the local council to chop down historic trees on the property grounds, but she went ahead with the changes despite the backlash.

In January Panayiotou's landscape designers requested permission to cut down or prune nine trees which had become a "threat" to the structure of the home. The Redington Frognal Neighbourhood Forum hit back when the news became public, saying: "Any loss of mature trees which provide habitat for wildlife is regrettable. The need for maintenance is recognised, but should not be undertaken during the nesting season."

They wrote to the local council again two days later, adding: "Having now checked the history of intent to fell notifications over the past years, it is very concerning that three mature forest trees have been lost: two poplars and a sycamore." The group asked Panayiotou to promise she would replace the vegetation.

An upset neighbour also voiced their concerns, calling the plans to cut down trees around the mansion "alarming and suspicious". Although locals were unhappy about the development work being done on the property, Panayiotou has now acheived her goal of restoring the mansion to "habitable" condition.

New photos have indicated the house has brand new doors, windows, decking, and a fresh roof that has been fitted with solar panels. One of the garages has also been transformed into living quarters. The pad was previously broken into and ransacked in 2002 while it lay empty by burglers who stole jewellery, designer clothes, paintings, and even family heirlooms that had been left to Michael by his late mother.

Before his death the singer was fighting to stop a developer from building a block of flats complete with a car park beside his Hampstead garden. His law firm, Russells, protested the building work in 2016 saying: "The development will have a negative impact on the character of the local community."