Paris Home Scouting
The Independent Buy-Side Advisor for Your Home in Paris

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Exclusive Buyer-Side Approach

The easy way of searching for real estate in a foreign country is contacting one of the few real estate brokerage networks operating globally. However, by doing so you have access to a single but biased source of opportunities, leaving a significant part of the market out of your scope.

In the absence of a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system in France, it is of the utmost importance to search in many different directions, a strategy that global brokers won't do for you, favoring their own proprietary listings.

This is why non domestic prospective buyers should preferably rely on independent buyer-side advisors such as Paris Home Scouting, who will do this work on their behalf.

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Institutional-Level Process and Service Quality

At Paris Home Scouting, we are convinced that prospective buyers of high end and luxury real estate deserve a first class service. There are absolutely no reasons why our Paris residential clients should not benefit from our lifelong experience of institutional service quality.

For the last 30 years, Paris Home Scouting founder Silvio Estienne has worked in large institutional real estate companies such as prime European residential development groups or global institutional investors and real estate fund managers.

During all these years, he has developed a high level sense of satisfaction for his clients. Now, with Paris Home Scouting, the same experience is offered to demanding individuals willing to purchase a home in Paris with the highest level of confidence and service quality.

How to Understand Your Needs and Preferences for a Perfect Match with Your Future Paris Home?

Our approach, as buy-side advisors, starts with the extensive analysis of our clients needs and desires for their Paris home.

Unlike most realtors, we do not fit our clients into a home for which we have a sales mandate, we look for a home that perfectly fits with our mandated clients criteria.

How do we proceed?

As often as practically possible, we want to organize in-person meetings with our clients in their 'natural habitat'. We find it is the best way to understand what they like in their homes and how they live. After a first video conference, Silvio systematically offers to travel personally to their current residence and stay with them one or two days. Through open questions and informal discussions, with an emphasis on what is achievable or not ('reality check'), a qualitative and quantitative description of what they look for is precisely drafted, including specific neighborhoods and a target budget.

When he comes back to France, the search can start with all cards in his hands and with the most efficient approach.

Choosing a home, like for a cake, is a question of preferences

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How to Achieve a Complete and Thorough Market Knowledge?

Once we have worked with our clients on their criteria, we want to make sure that the entire market consistent with these is extensively searched and all available opportunities identified.

We are using a mix of on-line and physical approaches for this purpose, targeting publicly available information as well as off-market sources we have access to.

Unlike in many other countries, about a third of real estate transactions are initiated off-market in France, without the help of any real estate broker. Even many of the brokered deals have been initially 'marketed' on a CtoC basis, before being marketed through agents. This is why it is very important to secure an access to some of the most important off-market channels. Because Paris Home Scouting is primarily a boutique run by native Parisians, we have a consistent and reliable access to such confidential sources.

The 'public' market is addressed through Artificial and Real Intelligence searches on all the relevant available websites and portals, allowing a broad coverage of the defined market.

Also and not the least important, because Paris is still nowadays a community of local neighborhoods, many owners list their property only at the local real estate agency, many of which do not post these on the usual web portals. Once we have defined the desired neighborhood where our clients want to focus their search efforts, we visit all the local realtors and discuss with them our clients criteria.

This approach ensures a 95% coverage of the offers relevant to your desires.

Local Presence and Global Reach

We are French and we are Parisians. This means that we know our beloved city quite well and are able to understand the various subtleties of its neighborhoods.

But we also have a global culture. Having lived and worked in the USA, particularly in Chicago and in Boston, we also understand what it means to live in a different country and we have loved to learn and adopt other cultures.

Paris Home Scouting cross-cultural approach is deeply rooted in our DNA and we are absolutely thrilled to help you finding your home in Paris!