“Bresidences located in billionaires’ alley seek buyers for quick sale”: such an advertisement could have been written by the high-end real estate agency Knight Frank between the invasion of Ukraine and the freezing by the United Kingdom of real estate holdings of the London-based Russian oligarchs, close to Vladimir Putin, and their family. Indeed, Kensington Palace Gardens (KPG), the most expensive residential avenue in London, if not the world, was the favorite haunt of ‘cold-came’ tycoons before the outbreak of war.
First stop, number 16. The majestic cream-colored, impeccably maintained residence was bought in 2011 by Roman Abramovich for 90 million pounds (108 million euros). The Victorian-style building has many…
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