Jagger's home satisfaction

Mick Jagger and his girlfriend are house-hunting together.

The rock star has been dating Californian model and stylist L'Wren Scott for almost two years. Now they want a London base and hope to move in as soon as the band's world tour ends next month.

The move signals Jagger's biggest commitment to a woman since he parted from his long-suffering wife Jerry Hall four years ago.

Scott, 36, and Jagger - who recently turned 60 - visited several townhouses in Fulham and The Boltons in Chelsea during a recent break from the Stones' tour and Jagger has asked his people to continue the search for a property valued at £3 million to £5 million.

The couple had to book into Jagger's suite at Claridge's during a recent trip to London after Hall, 47, suggested they shouldn't stay at his Richmond flat which adjoins the £6 million house she was awarded in the divorce settlement. Jagger has been paying around £2,500 a night for a penthouse at the Mayfair hotel since Hall persuaded him to leave the flat in June.

A friend of Jagger's said: "Mick and L'Wren are keen to find a place together. When Mick finishes touring they can hardly stay next door to Jerry, and they can't stay at Claridge's forever. It's a natural progression, but Mick is also very aware that L'Wren is not the sort of woman who will be pestering him to put a ring on her finger."

The news has evidently filtered back to Hall, who remarked yesterday from San Francisco, where she is about to reprise her stage role as Mrs Robinson in The Graduate: "He's a sick, addictive womaniser who made me very unhappy. He's got this Dionysian thing going on that just won't stop. It gets tired - for me, not for him." She didn't mention Scott when asked about Jagger's house-hunting.

Father-of-seven Jagger met Scott at a magazine shoot two years ago. The relationship started with low-profile dates in Paris, New York and Beverly Hills. The pair also holidayed in the Caribbean. But in recent months Scott, who towers eight inches over Jagger and is famous for her 42-inch legs, has increasingly taken to the role as his partner and its accompanying limelight.

Though 24 years his junior, she is older than some of his previous conquests who include models Sophie Dahl and Brazilian Luciana Morad.

Scott still has a home in Hollywood but has been spending more and more time with Jagger on his tour, which comes to London next weekend. She has also met some of his four children by Hall, who live with the Texan model and actress in Richmond. Jagger showed he was ready to take the relationship with Scott a step further when he chose his 60th birthday party in Prague last month to make his first public appearance with her.

A measure of her understanding of him came in a telling gesture there. A friend said: "L'Wren organised-everything about the party. It was her idea to fill it with sexy, mini-skirted girls on podiums for Mick's enjoyment."

Friends say Jagger's sexual excesses have been quietened by the woman he describes as having, "the best body I've ever known". One wag even nicknamed her The Loin Tamer.

Friends say Jagger fell for her undemanding nature, level-headedness and intellect as well as her open-minded attitude towards his seeming inability to remain monogamous.

A friend added: "She's certainly not phased by Mick's fame. She has styled for Robert De Niro, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. She's got a career and isn't hanging on his every whim."