Former Liverpool and England striker Michael Owen spent £750,000 on an entire row of houses for his family in 2001, allowing them to live near him on the England-Wales border. The properties, located in north Wales, were purchased for his parents, sisters, and brothers, all on the same street in Flintshire, just a short distance from Owen's own home at the time.
Owen, who was born in Chester and attended school in Wales, was just 21 years old when he made the extravagant purchase. Despite playing his club football for Liverpool, he lived across the border in Wales, and the houses ensured his family could be close by.
The gesture is one of several notable examples of Premier League stars buying lavish gifts for loved ones. Raheem Sterling bought his mother a £2.5 million house, while Marcus Rashford also purchased a home for his mother, joking it was to avoid being told off for playing football indoors.
Other footballers have given back in different ways: Sadio Mané sent 300 Liverpool shirts to his home village in Senegal and funded a school and hospital there, while David Beckham bought his wife Victoria a vineyard in California's Napa Valley for her birthday in 2008.
