Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son and successor of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has reportedly amassed a portfolio of luxury London real estate since 2014.
A year-long investigation by Bloomberg revealed the younger Khamenei’s massive, hidden investment portfolio, despite US sanctions imposed against him in 2019. The reported assets included over $130 million in enviable UK property, along with other holdings ranging from high-end European hotels to well-funded bank accounts tied to Switzerland and the UAE.
The outlet traced Khamenei to a financial network that owns more than a dozen properties in London, including a collection of vacant mansions along The Bishops Avenue — London’s own “Billionaires’ Row,” which has historically attracted the likes of the Sultan of Brunei and Justin Bieber.
One of the London homes, Jersey House, cost £33.7 million ($45.3 million) when it last traded to Ali Ansari, a sanctioned Iranian banker, in 2014. The property boasts its own leisure complex and staff housing, but a caretaker told the Times of London that the 1.2-acre grounds now lie empty.
The hidden network backing these properties is allegedly funded by Iranian oil sales, Bloomberg reported, and routed through a network of shell companies and associates.
Bloomberg’s investigation revealed that the London portfolio is indirectly owned by Khamenei through Ansari, an alleged front man, and a shell company owned Ansari by registered to the Isle of Man.
The stately homes are believed to have been purchased for Khamenei beginning in 2013.
Two luxury apartments across from the Israeli embassy in London have also been tied to Khamenei. In addition to their proximity to the embassy, the homes are “a stone’s throw” from Kensington Palace. A counter-terrorism specialist told the Daily Mail that the apartments’ unique aspect poses “a serious security breach.”
The properties, located on a private road, are reportedly under watch by local police and a 24/7 private security team.
Ansari, himself sanctioned in 2025 by the UK for his financial support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, a branch of Iran’s military, has repeatedly denied through his lawyer any financial ties or personal relationship with Khamenei.
Reporting by Bloomberg contradicted Ansari’s claims, connecting the Iranian businessman to Khamenei via business ventures and private meetings.
Multiple properties along The Bishop’s Avenue sit in Ansari’s name or that of Birch Ventures, an entity linked to Ansari and registered to the Isle of Man.
Several of the impressive homes along the road have fallen into disrepair, including one derelict mansion partially destroyed by a fire in 2023, reporting by the Times revealed.
The two luxury apartments, purchased in 2014 and 2016 for a collective £35.7 million, are also reportedly owned through Ansari.
Ansari’s London holdings were blocked from future sale by the country’s Treasury in October, after Ansari was sanctioned and dubbed a “corrupt banker and businessman,” by the government.
Ansari has publicly stated that he plans to challenge the UK’s sanctions against him.
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