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The Private Desk
Houses that are never listed, matched to buyers who are already known. The portfolio below shows what the desk works with; the live dossiers move by introduction only.
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Off-market
The portfolio, anonymised
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-0402 · Marbella
Estate inside La Zagaleta
A hectare on the upper road of the estate with a house of the first generation, priced for a rebuild.
8 bedrooms1,900 m²10,000 m² plot
€12 m to 15 mReference RN-0402
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
RN-0425 · Côte d'Azur
Domaine behind Saint-Tropez
Three hectares of vines and pines in Ramatuelle with a bastide and a summer letting record.
8 bedrooms700 m²30,000 m² plot
€22 m to 26 mReference RN-0425
Blind listing
RN-0412 · Monaco
Whole floor in the Carré d'Or
An entire floor in a belle-époque building between the Casino and the sea, with a ninety-metre terrace.
4 bedrooms320 m²
€28 m to 34 mReference RN-0412
RN-0430 · Lake Como
Lakefront with a dock, Tremezzina
A named villa on the centre of the lake with a garden to the water, a boathouse and a licensed mooring.
6 bedrooms750 m²8,000 m² plot
€14 m to 18 mReference RN-0430
RN-0399 · Tuscany
Chianti estate with a producing vineyard
Thirty-five hectares in Chianti Classico with a restored villa, a guest farmhouse and a working cellar.
9 bedrooms1,200 m²350,000 m² plot
€11 m to 13 mReference RN-0399
Blind listing
RN-0436 · Costa Smeralda
Frontline in the bays of Romazzino
A villa on the rocks between two of the coast's famous beaches, with a path to the water and a consortium file in order.
6 bedrooms650 m²7,500 m² plot
€25 m to 32 mReference RN-0436
RN-0418 · Lisbon & Comporta
Comporta estate behind the dunes
Twelve hectares of pine and cork with a licensed house and a path to the beach.
5 bedrooms480 m²120,000 m² plot
€8.0 m to 10 mReference RN-0418
RN-0407 · Lisbon & Comporta
Palace floor in Lapa
The piano nobile of an eighteenth-century palace in the embassy quarter, restored with its ceilings.
4 bedrooms410 m²
€4.5 m to 5.2 mReference RN-0407
RN-0429 · Algarve
On the lake at Quinta do Lago
A contemporary villa on the lake with a letting record that covers its running cost twice over.
6 bedrooms900 m²3,800 m² plot
€9.5 m to 11 mReference RN-0429
Blind listing
RN-0414 · London
Lateral apartment in Mayfair
Two apartments joined into one across the first floor of a garden-square building, with a porter and a garage.
5 bedrooms480 m²
€35 m to 42 mReference RN-0414
RN-0423 · London
Villa on a communal garden, Notting Hill
A double-fronted house on one of the great communal gardens, with a garden of its own and a basement done properly.
6 bedrooms520 m²
€19 m to 22 mReference RN-0423
RN-0411 · Paris
Hôtel particulier in the 7th
A private house between courtyard and garden on the left bank, unchanged for a generation.
8 bedrooms900 m²400 m² plot
€38 m to 45 mReference RN-0411
Blind listing
RN-0431 · Zürich & Zug
Lakefront with a boathouse, Gold Coast
One of the few remaining lakefront villas in Küsnacht with a boathouse, a lawn to the water and the afternoon sun.
6 bedrooms640 m²3,100 m² plot
€36 m to 43 mReference RN-0431
RN-0404 · Munich
Villa in Herzogpark
A villa of the twenties on a corner plot in the Herzogpark quarter, restored with its garden.
6 bedrooms560 m²1,600 m² plot
€16 m to 19 mReference RN-0404
RN-0426 · Hamburg
On the Alster at Harvestehude
A white villa with its garden to the water on the Harvestehuder Weg, held by one family since the fifties.
6 bedrooms700 m²2,200 m² plot
€17 m to 21 mReference RN-0426
Blind listing
RN-0435 · St. Moritz & Engadin
Chalet on Suvretta
One of the estates on the Suvretta hill with the ski-in access, a pool and a plot of half a hectare.
8 bedrooms1,100 m²4,800 m² plot
€48 m to 59 mReference RN-0435
RN-0419 · Sylt
Thatched house on the cliff at Kampen
A Frisian thatched house on the first line of the cliff with the sea in every west window and a permitted footprint larger than the house.
5 bedrooms320 m²1,900 m² plot
€12 m to 15 mReference RN-0419
RN-0432 · Dubai
Signature villa on the Palm
A fully rebuilt signature villa on a frond tip with a private beach, a dock and a view of the skyline.
6 bedrooms1,050 m²1,300 m² plot
€22 m to 27 mReference RN-0432
RN-0416 · Miami
Bayfront estate on the islands
A hundred and fifty feet of seawall on one of the guard-gated islands, with a dock for a large boat and a house built to the current code.
7 bedrooms1,000 m²3,000 m² plot
€34 m to 41 mReference RN-0416
Blind listing
RN-0427 · New York
Full floor on Billionaires' Row
An entire floor high in one of the 57th Street towers with the park in every north window and no board to face.
5 bedrooms600 m²
€47 m to 56 mReference RN-0427
RN-0398 · Vienna
Piano nobile inside the Ring
The noble floor of a palace in the first district with four-metre ceilings and the cathedral in the window.
5 bedrooms380 m²
€7.5 m to 8.5 mReference RN-0398
RN-0434 · Kitzbühel
Farmhouse on the Sonnberg
A Tyrolean farmhouse of the eighteenth century on the sunny slope with the Hahnenkamm in the window and a registered Freizeitwohnsitz.
6 bedrooms520 m²3,000 m² plot
€18 m to 22 mReference RN-0434
Nothing in the portfolio matches that combination. The desk holds more than it publishes; tell it what you are looking for.
Open buyer mandates
What buyers are asking for
What registered buyers are looking for right now, in outline. If you own the house in one of these lines, the desk would like to hear from you before anybody else does.
- M-112
- M-118A private buyer seeks a lateral apartment above 350 square metres in Mayfair or Knightsbridge, 20 to 40 million, and needs to complete before September.London
- M-121A family seeks water frontage on Cap Ferrat or Cap d'Antibes, budget on request, and will sign an NDA and evidence funds within forty-eight hours.Côte d'Azur
- M-125An entrepreneur seeks a villa in Herzogpark or Grünwald on a plot above 1,500 square metres, 8 to 20 million; a house for rebuilding is acceptable.Munich
- M-127A family office seeks lake frontage with a dock on Como, 10 to 25 million, and would accept a listed villa and the consents that come with it.Lake Como
- M-129A relocating executive with a confirmed right to purchase seeks lakefront on the Gold Coast, 20 to 40 million francs.Zürich & Zug
- M-131A collector seeks a chalet on Suvretta or a house in Sils, 20 to 60 million francs, with a holding horizon of twenty years and the permit route understood.St. Moritz & Engadin
- M-133A Hamburg family seeks frontline thatch in Kampen, 10 to 20 million, and has waited three winters already.Sylt
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