As the war in Ukraine rages, wealthy Russians are quietly looking to unload hundreds of millions of dollars worth of US property — and the sales are raising eyebrows across hotspots in New York, Florida and California, real-estate brokers told the New York Post.
The Kogans also are quietly shopping properties at 15 Central Park West, 515 Park Ave., and a Greenwich, Conn. estate at 18 Simmons Lane. Altogether, the couple is trying to dispose of property worth around $250 million, sources said. In Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. — a one-and-a-half-mile strip of land dubbed “Little Moscow” because of its bustling Russian population and known for its proliferation of Trump-branded residences — 9% of the active residential listings are new since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, according to Sykes.
“At the end of the day, there is something very different going on since the war began,” Klaiman said. “I’ve been inundated with calls, and they are all from Russians,” Lenz said. “These aren’t distressed properties. The buyers just want to sell and they don’t want their homes to be publicly listed with their prices and pictures going all over the world that they are selling.
“I’ve never had my phone blow up like this ever in my life. There is a feeling of potential panic. It isn’t panic yet, but the fear is there, like, where does this stop? Every day there is some senator saying LLCs must be further regulated and undressed,” Dolly Lenz said. “They are afraid of getting their assets seized, even if it is just guilt by association.”
Get em outta here!!!
I hope it hits Miami
Bidding $1,000.
Scumbags