41. 9A Kensington Palace Garden – $99 Million
We know, we know—you spent your London vacation pub-crawling and pretending to visit museums, but if you had bothered to dig into the life of the city you’d have learned a few things—namely that due to some urban planning decisions made in the 1950s, London is overcrowded and real estate citywide is in short supply. Any Londoner knows that apartment hunting in that lovely city is best described as either “an adventure” or “an exercise in mind-melting frustration”. So it should come as no surprise that some of the priciest homes in the world are found there.
And the crème de la crème of them are found in Kensington Palace Garden. Nestled in the heart of London’s embassy district, this picturesque little tree-lined avenue has picked up the cute nickname of “Billionaires’ Row” due to its residents, the only people able to afford some of the most expensive houses on the planet.
9a Kensington Palace Garden is the jewel in the crown, so to speak. Purchased in 2009 by a steel magnate for his daughter—presumably as a quick little “love you” gift—the $99 million property is a historic Georgian home that once served as the Embassy of the Philippines. It’s hard to get swankier than a home that was chosen to represent an entire nation.