Martine McCutcheon to sell her marital home at a loss of £1.5 million following split from Jack McManus after 18 years of marriage

Martine McCutcheon has slashed the asking price of her marital home as she pushes for a sell amid her divorce from Jack McManus. 

The actress, aged 48 and well-known for her role in EastEnders, shared in August that her spouse, Jack, had decided to end their 18-year relationship. This revelation came shortly after she had penned a heartfelt birthday tribute to him.

Reports later revealed that the couple had made the decision to put their home in Surrey, valued at £1.5 million, on the market three months earlier in May. This house was where they resided with their nine-year-old son, Rafferty.

Despite their efforts, the property remained unsold for seven months, prompting them to reduce the asking price by £250,000. Originally listed at £1.5 million, the house is now priced at £1.25 million in hopes of attracting a buyer.

Martine and Jack, 40, now look set to make a loss having originally purchased the property for £1.3 million in June 2022. 

The decision to axe the price comes just a week after Martine appeared to take a swipe at her ex in a series of cryptic Instagram posts.

Martine McCutcheon has slashed the asking price of her marital home as she pushes for a sale  amid her divorce from Jack McManus

The couple’s five bedroom 3000sq ft detached home was put on the market on May 31 and the asking price has been slashed by £250,000, dropping from its original listing of £1.5 million

Martine (pictured this month) and Jack, 40, now look set to make a loss having originally purchased the property for £1.3 million in June 2022

Last month, Martine shared a series of quotes on her Stories, and captioned one by vowing to ‘keep the faith and look forward’ in the wake of her marital split.

In one pointed post, Martine re-shared a quote which read: ‘Sometimes, healing means telling people to f**k off,’ with the caption: ‘Absobloodylutely!’

She went onto share a poem, which said: ‘And all this time, you thought you were falling apart, you didn’t realise you were actually putting yourself back together.’

Alongside it she wrote: ‘For anyone who needs this, keep the faith. Look forward – not back… and smile… you WILL be OK… Maybe even better than OK.’

Martine broke the news of her split in a statement that read: ‘After much thought and consideration, Jack has decided it’s best for us to separate after 18 years together and I accept his decision.’

‘We are both so very blessed and grateful for our beautiful, 9 year old son Rafferty, who’s [sic] happiness and welfare, has always been, and will continue to be, our number 1 priority.

‘We both of course, still cherish and look forward to being parents together to our wonderful boy for the rest of our lives…

‘Whilst this decision has evolved over a period of time, we are still finding our new way forward as a family and kindly ask for some privacy at this time… Especially for our little boy.’

The decision to axe the price comes just week after Martine appeared to take a swipe at her ex in a series of cryptic Instagram posts

In one pointed post, Martine re-shared a quote which read: ‘Sometimes, healing means telling people to f**k off,’ with the caption: ‘Absobloodylutely!’ 

In a series of posts shared last month, Martine went onto share a cryptic poem, alongside a caption vowing that she was ‘looking forward, not back’

She continued: ‘Our love for Rafferty, is something that will never, waver, or change and we obviously want to protect him and help him feel as safe and secure as possible.

‘Many thanks in advance for your respect and support, at this difficult time…And I continue to send Jack, all the love, luck and happiness for the next chapter of his.

‘Rafferty and I (as always,) are rooting for you!

‘Thank you all, for the love and support, now and always…Martine.xx.’

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline at the time of Martine’s statement, Jack had said: ‘There is nothing more to add. I will not be saying anything more about this.’

The couple married in 2012 in Italy’s picturesque Lake Como, five years after they started dating.

Martine later explained that she had previously felt pressured to live up to other people’s standards and was now much happier ‘saying no’ and being herself.

Speaking on The Showercast podcast, Martine said: ‘I was always enough, I was always loveable, I didn’t have to be all those things I thought needed to be.

‘I definitely think that everybody thinks that their version of you is the right version of you and that’s not just something that happens when you’re well known or you’re in the public eye. It can happen within families.’

Martine revealed in August that her husband Jack had left her after 18 years together – days after she wrote a heartfelt birthday tribute for him 

The star went on to explain that she had felt moulded by other people’s expectations of her and had previously been branded ‘difficult’.

She said: ‘They can project onto you that you’re the difficult one, or you’re the black sheep of the family, or you’re the star, or you’re the one that keeps everything together.

‘And I would just say to myself and to anybody that I loved that you’re more than anybody else’s projections of you, any lazy labels.

‘That might be their favourite part of you or favourite version of you but you’re more than one thing. 

‘You’re complex, you’re complicated, you’re multi-faceted and you owe it to yourself to be all of you, no apologies.’