One of the superstars of the Swedish pop group Abba is selling his house in Bucks.

Singer and songwriter Bjorn Ulvaeus, who celebrated his 60th birthday in April, bought the contemporary six bedroom house at Cadmore End at the end of the 90s to give him and his second wife Lena a base in the UK.

"The position is ideal for a celebrity who wants privacy," commented Ian Cudworth at the Marlow office of Ballards where the guide price for the property has just been reduced to £1.2m.

The red brick ranch style house, sitting in grounds of just over an acre, is hidden by big wooden gates down a country lane surrounded by fields on the edge of the Hambleden Valley.

"They've used it quite a lot but they have houses all over the world and they're now spending more time in Sweden so they've decided to let this one go," said the agent.

The singer with the group that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo, the song that went on to be No 1 all over Europe, and more recently had a massive hit with the musical Mamma Mia, first put their country home in the Chilterns up for sale for £1.5m at the beginning of the year hoping to sell it quietly but it didn't happen.

They've now dropped the price by £300,000 and switched the strategy to grab attention.

The house has lots of space for entertaining on a megastar scale. The 38ft drawing room, with its dramatic vaulted ceiling, opens onto the 20ft family room.

There's also a 30ft living room with doors through to an 11ft study and 16ft conservatory that leads into the garden. Elsewhere the 19ft sitting room leads into the 25ft designer kitchen with a 14ft breakfast area.

The Swedish style is evident in the gleaming wood floors throughout and the acres of white paint.

Apart from the six bedrooms in the main house, there's also a self-contained studio in the grounds with a further two bedrooms, so there's a lot of house for just over a million.

Ballards' office in the riverside town is building up a following as estate agent to chart-topping pop groups. Last December Ian Cudworth and his staff sold Little Marlow Manor for Mel B for £4m, almost doubling the price the former Spice Girl bought it for in 1998. "Scary Spice didn't scare me," croaked the agent last week.