Élise Marchand
Founding Principal
Previously head of private clients at a London-based heritage brokerage; chair of the Aurelian Foundation for Architectural Preservation.
Maison Aurelian
Founded on a single
conviction: that a home deserves more time than a transaction allows.
Our Story
A practice, not a brokerage.
Aurelian Estates was founded in 1998 in a one-room office above a flower shop in the Sixth Arrondissement. The brief at the founding has not changed since: to advise a small number of families on the residences that matter to them, with the patience and discretion the work deserves.
In the decades since, we have closed in twenty-three countries, opened salons in New York and Geneva, and become — quietly, by referral — the firm a particular kind of family asks for first.
We are not a brokerage. We do not advertise listings. We accept a small number of new clients each year, every one by introduction.
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Principles
Four convictions, written into the engagement letter.
I.
Patience
A property is not a quarter, and a family is not a deal pipeline. We will wait.
II.
Discretion
We do not name our clients, our principals, or our most considered closings.
III.
Counsel
We are paid to advise, sometimes to advise against. Both must be possible.
IV.
Continuity
Closing is the beginning. The advisor who began the search is the one you call ten years later.
The Principals
The same names, every year.
Our partners are personally retained on every engagement. They are who you will meet at the introduction, and who you will speak with on every call thereafter.
Henri Vasari
Director, Acquisitions
Twenty years in residential capital markets across Milan, Geneva, and New York; specialist in cross-border off-market transactions.
Mira Aldridge
Head of Concierge
Former chief of staff to a multi-family office in Zurich; oversees relocation, staffing, and the post-closing client relationship.
A First Conversation