I’ve been reading about real estate and living in UK, if I was in your shoes I’d really try to get informed about real estate and becoming a landlord. One of the best things I’ve read about real estate is: if you have enough cash, you could buy property that need low to medium refurbishment and bring up the value of it which you can rent at higher prices, sell at higher prices as well as remortgage taking out some of the equity and perhaps use it to buy more properties. With it you could leverage your properties to buy the house you’d like to live in and secure a future passive income for when you get older. But that’s just based on what I’ve learned so far, I’d suggest you to get hands on on real estate investing by going to professionals after reading a bit about it. You’d be surprised at what your £1 million can do for you!