Real Estate & Property Awards 2019

BUILD 2019 Real Estate & Property Awards 2019 Real Estate & Property Awards BUILD 46 47 Best Multinational Luxury Real Estate Agency 2019 Buying your dream house is no easy task, especially when it’s in another country. You can never be entirely sure of what you’re going to get. This is where the multinational Pullen Real Estate company come in, offering a comprehensive service to buyers and sellers that ensures the best of both worlds. Run by Chitra and Richard Pullen, we took a closer look at the company to find out more. ased in the south of France, near the Mediterranean city of Narbonne, Pullen Real Estate was borne of a desire to have a more relaxed lifestyle in the sun. Established in 2014, the agency has gone from strength to strength, building up a reputation for offering high quality character homes in the area around Narbonne and the Canal du Midi, one of the most beautiful areas in France. The high level of service is what draws people in to the world of Pullen Real Estate. Offering something boutique and bespoke, clients are met with comprehensive service from first contact. This is borne of personal experience, with Richard and Chitra have sold and bought property in the area themselves and having made the move from England over fifteen years ago. A deep understanding and empathy with client needs, along with their hopes and fears, is what Richard and Chitra can offer to those looking to build a new life in France. With six members in the team including one French, one German and one Dutch native, clients from across Europe have the chance to speak to someone who can talk their mother tongue – one of the main appeals of Pullen Real Estate is its multinational, multicultural, multilingual nature. B Another factor of the success of the company is that the owners worked in other sectors before moving into Real Estate. Richard, for example, owned his own financial services consultancy for 10 years prior to moving. Chitra worked as a Commercial Real Estate solicitor in some of London’s largest international law firms after qualifying as a solicitor in 1994. This has served them well in France, with the acquisition of a ‘Carte Professionnelle’, or Real Estate license earned off the back of their high-flying performances, meaning they can sell and buy Real Estate. Both are passionate about property in general, having bought, renovated, and sold their own properties in France. It has given Richard and Chitra a personal knowledge and experience of the property market here, especially the luxury market within which they operate. They are well placed to offer their clients knowledgeable advice and a first-class service on the house buying and selling process. Passion and knowledge are critical to ensuring buyers’ interest, and as time goes on, the internet will play more and more of a part in this process. Allowing properties to be seen on camera, as clearly and fairly as possible, is an important step to buying any property. This is especially key when many of their clients are from outside France and need more detailed views of the house. They’re looking to build on this success with videos and floorplans under development. Looking forward, Pullen Real Estate are diversifying in every way. Not only putting focus on the German, Dutch and French markets, they’d very much like to push the luxury of the Languedoc to Scandinavia. Further expansion is being considered as they look at setting up sister agencies in other areas of France, but the focus for now remains in the south. Though a small agency, Pullen Real Estate offer something unique to their clients, including peace of mind. Buying a house could be a hugely stressful situation to be in, but the people of Pullen are committed to making sure that your experience is as pleasant as possible. Contact: Chitra Pullen Company: Pullen Real Estate Website: www.pullenfrance.com Telephone: 0033 468488403 Pullen Real Estate: Best Luxury Property Development & Investment Company - Mediterranean Building high-end properties in the Mediterranean is not an easy task, especially with customer expectation at an all-time high and regulations starting to close in on certain aspects of the experience. We profiled this extraordinary development company to find out more about their vision, ethos and portfolio. sing a pioneering vision to design top quality leisure spaces with unmatched architectural style is what, ultimately, Mirum’s clients rely on. With over 20 years of experience and € 1 billion spent in investments, it’s clear that the Mirum Group have significant interest in Greece and the greater Mediterranean region. Currently one of its largest landowners, with over 1 million square metres of sea front land held in ownership, Mirum offers something truly special at the very top end of the market. Mirum specializes in creating master-planned luxury residential communities, each property representing a location-authentic work of architecture, recognized by its uniqueness of style. The perspective of the customer is very important at this luxury end of the market and guides a number of design decisions. Sea-views are the main prerequisite for most holiday home buyers in the Mediterranean with beach access is considered a ‘must have’ at the very top end of the market. Most buyers appreciate that it is a very rare commodity on the island, especially given new regulations about a minimum setback distance will cause a shortage in this of property. Fortunately, Mirum have control of a large proportion of this seafront land and keep abreast of local changes to ensure that their properties match customer expectations as much as possible. Nowhere better is the design ethos of Mirum evoked than in their new Elounda villas. Elounda is one of the most recognised upscale tourist destinations in Greece. Over the past forty years, Elounda has evolved from a picturesque fishing village into a renowned upscale hotel destination in the Mediterranean. Now not limited to a hotel, with the general spirit of Elounda being one of a tourist town, it’s not surprising that the highest end of holiday homes in the area can have a daily letting fee from 5.000 euros and up. These fees are the results of the incredibly high specifications that these properties are built to. Mirum Elounda Villas is a newly built gated community with authentically Mediterranean, as opposed to Greek, architecture. The villas sit on large plots, facing to the Mirabello bay and all bedrooms have sea view. To match the standard of the housing, the Mirum team are available all year around to help with any requests and owners can enjoy the services and facilities offered by the neighbouring high-end hotel. Looking outward of the impressively designed villas, there are heated pools, lush gardens U and large terraces with seating and BBQ equipment. The merging of the indoor and outdoor mean that Elounda’s main assets – the climate and the views – can be fully appreciated. Plans for more expansion are already underway. Currently the development pipeline includes over 200 000 square meters of new and redeveloped real estate projects. Long term, the intention here is to build luxury hotels, high-class residential areas, and top commercial spaces, as well as extensive, synergetic infrastructure. No doubt the design processes will be particularly in-depth, with the ideas and solutions to clients unmatched on the market. Ultimately, every project is calculated to deliver satisfaction to even the most demanding of clients. For Mirum, success as an organisation is made possible through the efforts and abilities of their hardworking team. Professional growth is at the heart of their leadership culture. Our commitment to Unleashing Potential is about our leaders supporting career objectives through coaching and creating thoughtfully crafted individual development plans. Looking forward, it’s clear that Mirum is looking to capitalise on their peerless reputation in the market to deliver bolder, more creative, more innovative developments that truly elevate the meaning of ‘luxury’. In the Mediterranean, they simply stand alone and above their peers and competitors – that gap is surely going to widen over the next few years. Contact: Marina Lutovinova Company: Mirum Hells SA Website: http://mirum.gr/ Mirum Hells SA: