Why weexist
Founded in Cascara Point in 2016 by two former architects, after watching a Meis house sold as a “development opportunity”.
Conventional estate agency has no vocabulary for authorship. A house drawn by a named architect, built to their specification and never altered, is described in exactly the same terms as the volume house next door: bedroom count, bathroom count, floor area. The thing that makes it worth owning does not appear anywhere in the listing.
That is not a marketing problem. It is a valuation problem, and it costs owners real money — because a buyer who cannot see what they are buying will not pay for it, and an agent who cannot describe it will advise the owner to alter it.
The panel
Every instruction goes to an architecture panel before we accept it. The panel meets fortnightly, scores authorship, condition and provenance separately, and publishes its criteria. We decline roughly seven in ten.
That refusal rate is the whole business model. Our list is only worth something to a buyer if everything on it is worth the journey, and the only way to guarantee that is to turn away work — including work we would like to have.
What we will not do
We do not run open days. We do not take sealed bids. We are never paid by both sides of a transaction. And we do not list a house we cannot show properly, repeatedly, at the hour it was designed for — which is why we work within ninety minutes of the office and nowhere else.
The record
Sixty-four architects. Eighteen houses. One panel, meeting fortnightly.
- Houses currently represented
- 18
- Instructions declined by the panel
- 71%
- Architects sold since 2016
- 64
- Median days from listing to offer
- 19
- Halvard Meis
- Studio Renna
- Aoki + Vance
- Brannon Wray
- Petra Lindqvist
- Okada Werk
- Marlowe & Fen
- Ida Sørensen
- Castellan Studio
- Ruth Amagi
- Verrier Atelier
- Nils Hoffmeier
- Sabine Krøyer
- Halloran Boyd
- Miyara Studio
- Ewan Tarrant
- Brekke & Aal
- Lorne Pashley
- Hana Vestergaard
- Duquesne Werk