Private Estates & Villas

Yes. The estates in the house's network rarely appear on rental platforms — private houses, owned by Greek and international families, reachable through relationships built over years. Off-market is the whole of what the house's estates specialists do: they know the houses, the owners and the staff. The house names the specialist it judges right for the brief and introduces you directly, and the residency is agreed with that specialist.

The villa partners the house works with deal off-market only — royal households, public figures, families whose names reach no listing — and the houses they hold reach no platform either. Owners open them to the network because requests are filtered carefully and the house stands behind the clients it sends.

Yes — chef, housekeeper, butler, security, drivers, childcare and fitness, in any combination, drawn from the people the house's estates advisors work with each season. Your advisor sets the household around the party and shares references in advance for any role involving direct family contact.

For longer stays, staff live in or near the estate for the duration; for shorter stays, a chef and housekeeper visiting daily is often enough.

The difference is the arrangement rather than the house or the view. A rental is a listed product taken for fixed dates, with a standard inventory and an agency between guest and owner. An estate is a family's own house, opened on the owner's conditions; the owner weighs the party as much as the calendar, and answers yes or no.

The house names the estates specialist it judges right for the brief and introduces you directly.

The owner’s conditions travel with the house: which rooms stay closed, whether the boat, the cars and the household come with it, what may be photographed, and how long a stay must run in high season. Those conditions are the terms of the stay rather than an opening position.

Where a household comes with the estate, the staff are the owner’s own people. They know the house, its water, its generator and its village, which is a different thing from staff sent out for the week.

Ask earlier than you would for a rental, and expect a considered answer rather than a calendar. The residency is agreed with the specialist the house introduces you to, on their own terms, and the owner’s yes is given to a particular party for particular dates.

The house names the specialist it judges right for the purchase — an estate agent, a buyer's representative, whoever knows that market and that kind of house — and puts you in touch directly. From there they act for you under their own engagement, answerable to you, and they bring in whatever else the purchase calls for. The house holds no part in the transaction, which is what keeps that counsel independent of it.

Where a purchase touches a listed building, a coastal protected zone or an island under archaeological protection, the house names someone who works in that territory regularly.