Buyers have put in offers of one million pounds (1.5 million dollars, 1.2 million euros) for the house where footballer David Beckham lived as a baby, the businessman handling the sale said Wednesday.

The three-bedroomed terraced house in Leytonstone, north-east London, is near a busy dual carriageway and a railway line but has attracted three bids worth four times the 250,000 pounds paid for similar houses in the area.

Local businessman Colin Evans said the owners were weighing up the offers, one of which is reported to have come from an unnamed Australian fan of Beckham, and would make a decision later this week.

Evans said he discovered the footballer`s link with the house while researching a book on famous people from the area. When he told the owners of the news, they checked the facts themselves and found it was true.

`They were very moved when they found out and they made me the sole agent for the sale,` Evans said.

He said Beckham`s family lived at the house for two years after he was born on May 2, 1975, before moving to Chingford, also in north-east London.

Beckham`s spokesman confirmed the family lived there when he was a baby.

The England international is due to join AC Milan on loan in January to stay fit during the close season for his Major League club LA Galaxy.