Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is planning to spend more time in New York.

The New York Post says he is set to buy the majority of a city block, which he will eventually turn into one of the city's biggest mansions.

Abramovich has been on a lengthy property search in the Big Apple, after having a $75million bid on a home overlooking Central Park Zoo turned down in 2014.

Since then, he has been buying up the narrow townhouses on the Upper East Side - and area where some of the richest people ever known in New York have lived.

The Chelsea supremo spent $29.7million on a property on East 75th Street in October, before buying the house two doors down for $18.3million just prior to Christmas.