Exclusive real estate in the world's hotspots
Ranesta is the private desk for prime property in twenty-two markets: houses that move by introduction, the numbers behind them, and the instruments to decide.
The Ranesta Index, prime asking bands per square metre · September 2026
From the houses
The latest from the houses that sell prime property, read by the desk and rewritten for buyers. Photographs as supplied.
Engel & Völkers
Photo: Andrea Dal Prato/Engel & Völkers Valle d'Aosta
Engel & Völkers is offering Villa Laubenò in Gressoney-Saint-Jean, the Gucci family's winter retreat in Ridley Scott's film, for €2.9 million. Eleven bedrooms, three salons and a view across the valley to Savoy Castle.
Sotheby's International Realty
Photo: Yosi Bitran (Unsplash) via Sotheby's International Realty
Sotheby's International Realty has added Panama to its network: Punta Pacifica Realty in Panama City now trades as Panama Sotheby's International Realty, the brand's 65th office in the Caribbean and Latin America.
How off-market actually works
Above five million, most houses are sold in one of three ways, and none of them is a listing.
One agent holds the instruction and shows the house to a handful of buyers they already know. No portal, no brochure in circulation. Most off-market sales in Mallorca, Marbella and the Alps are pockets.
roughly half of prime sales
The owner would sell at a number but has not decided to. Nothing is instructed; the house is mentioned. This is where the desk earns its fee, because a whisper needs a buyer who is already qualified and already discreet.
one sale in five
The house is described without address or photographs until a non-disclosure agreement is signed and funds are evidenced. Monaco, Cap Ferrat and the top of London work this way.
the top of every market
The map of attention
Twenty-two places where private capital keeps a second address. The dots are sized by the Ranesta Index; touch one for the band.
Mediterranean
The coasts and the lakes from Mallorca to the Costa Smeralda.
Alps
St. Moritz and Kitzbühel: two resorts that have stopped building.
Capitals and the north
London, Paris, Zürich, Munich, Hamburg, Vienna and Sylt.
Across the water
Dubai, Miami and New York: fast, taxed differently, priced in another currency.
The hotspots
Mediterranean
Spain
Mallorca
The southwest coast, the Tramuntana villages and the old town of Palma.
€12,000 to 22,000per m²
Mediterranean
France
Côte d'Azur
Cap Ferrat, Cap d'Antibes, Saint-Tropez and the hills above Cannes.
€15,000 to 40,000per m²
Mediterranean
Monaco
Monaco
The Carré d'Or, Larvotto, Fontvieille and the new land at Mareterra.
€45,000 to 60,000per m²
Capitals
United Kingdom
London
Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Notting Hill and St John's Wood.
€24,000 to 35,000per m²
Alps
Switzerland
St. Moritz & Engadin
Suvretta, Champfèr, Sils, Silvaplana and Pontresina.
€25,000 to 40,000per m²
Across the water
United Arab Emirates
Dubai
Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Bay, Emirates Hills and Dubai Hills.
€12,000 to 25,000per m²
The private portfolio
Anonymised profiles of the instructions the desk works with. Nothing here identifies a house; the dossier for a live equivalent moves on request and under NDA.
Blind listing
RN-0417 · Mallorca
Waterfront estate, Mallorca southwest
A frontline house on a rocky point, rebuilt in the last decade, with a boathouse and a staff apartment.
6 bedrooms820 m²4,200 m² plot
€18 m to 24 mReference RN-0417
RN-0388 · Mallorca
Tramuntana stone house, Deià side
A restored village house with terraces of olives and a rare licence to extend.
4 bedrooms380 m²12,000 m² plot
€6.5 m to 7.5 mReference RN-0388
RN-0421 · Marbella
Beachside on the Golden Mile
A contemporary house on the sea side of the road, a short walk from the town, with a garden to the beach path.
7 bedrooms1,100 m²2,600 m² plot
€14 m to 17 mReference RN-0421
RN-0433 · Ibiza
Licensed villa above Cala Jondal
A letting villa with a proven record, a tourist licence in the seller's name and a sunset over Es Vedrà.
6 bedrooms600 m²5,000 m² plot
€9.0 m to 11 mReference RN-0433
RN-0396 · Ibiza
Finca in the north with water
A restored farmhouse at the end of a track on six hectares, with the well that makes it possible.
5 bedrooms450 m²60,000 m² plot
€7.0 m to 9.0 mReference RN-0396
Blind listing
RN-0409 · Côte d'Azur
Waterfront on Cap Ferrat
A belle-époque estate on the water with a pool at the sea, held by one family for two generations.
7 bedrooms900 m²6,000 m² plot
€60 m to 80 mReference RN-0409
The instruments
Acquisition cost, holding cost, yield, financing, exit, a budget across the map, currency, own or rent, readiness and portfolio balance. All ten run in the browser and none of them sends a number anywhere.
The lead
The private market
Three tiers, a handful of people who hold the keys, and one document that opens every door. The mechanism behind the sales nobody sees.
From the journal
The numbers
Sixteen jurisdictions, one ten-million house, and a door that costs anything from sixty thousand to nearly two million. The acquisition cost, line by line.
The private market
The two documents that separate buyers who see houses from buyers who see listings, and how to handle each without giving anything away.
The numbers
A house costs something every year whether you are in it or not. The lines that make up the bill, where they are large, and the two that are invisible until the first year's end.
Tell the desk
A mandate in three lines is enough to start. The desk answers within two working days, and nothing you write is published.
Register
A mandate in outline: where, what, how much, when. No documents at this stage.
Qualify
One conversation and, for blind listings, evidence of funds under NDA. Once, not per house.
Introduce
When a house fits, one introduction. The desk never sends a list.
Complete
Lawyers, notary, structure, tax: the desk stays until the keys, on both sides.
The Private Letter
One letter a month: what moved in the hotspots, one anonymised sale explained, one number worth knowing. No advertising, no tracking, one click to leave.
