One of the few things you can’t buy on Simon Nixon’s price comparison website moneysupermarket.com is his beautiful £1.65m house – he had to seek out an estate agents just like everybody else.

Simon, who founded the Ewloe-based company near Chester, has put his old five-bed property on the market after relocating to the tax haven of Jersey in 2013.

Close to Chester city centre, his house in Sandown Terrace, Boughton, affords fantastic views of the River Dee and The Meadows from a terrace area with a wrought iron spiral staircase leading down to landscaped gardens which descend to the riverside where there are mooring rights.

According to the Sunday Times, the internet tycoon bought his Chester home in 2003 but isn’t able to use it as much as he’d like as, aside from his Jersey home, he also owns a £39m flat in Knightsbridge, another London pad and a lake house in Windermere.

The journalist wrote: “Even if Nixon gets the £1.65m asking price, he might not feel epic: he bought for £1.24m and has spent £600,000 on it.” However, Mr Nixon is quoted as saying: “I may be out of pocket, but what I have lost in monetary terms, I have more than made up for in pleasure from this house.”

Mr Nixon, 47, told The Chronicle before his relocation to Jersey that he was considering moving abroad because the British weather had been so poor following a particularly wet summer in 2012.

He said: “For a long time I have wanted to spend more time in a climate where the weather is better. The whole point of having financial independence is to enhance your standard of living.”

But he said he would always maintain strong links back to Chester as it was where his family and many of his friends live. “Don’t get me wrong, if I could combine a higher standard of living with lower tax that would be an advantage,” added Mr Nixon.

He told The Chronicle at the time that he was busy ‘looking for the next Google or the next Facebook’.

The Sunday Times Rich List 2014 claimed Nixon was worth a staggering £810m, making him the 123rd richest person in the UK.