Issue 14 · Essay · 12 min read
Why we still photograph in October light
A note on the late-afternoon glow that turns every west-facing room in London into the version of itself a buyer will remember six weeks later.
00 — Featured Spring Collection · 2026
1,284 active listings $4.2B in 2025 9 cities · 3 continents
A quieter way to find a home.
We curate, we don't list. Maison represents fewer than three hundred properties at any one time — each one chosen for the way it lives, not just the way it photographs.
01 — Featured Listings
Twelve homes,
individually selected.
Our spring collection of properties across London, New York, Lisbon, and the Côte d'Azur. Each home is photographed by a working architectural photographer and visited by at least two of our brokers before listing.
View all 1,284 properties02 — The Philosophy
"Cordelia Whitcombe — Founder, Maison Estates"
We sell the next sixty years of someone else's life.
When we opened our first office, above a wine merchant on Marylebone High Street in 1998, we made one decision that has guided every one since: we would only ever take on a property we could imagine living in ourselves.
That decision is responsible for our small list, our long average tenure with sellers, and the friendly stubbornness with which our brokers will tell a client, gently, that the kitchen needs replacing before viewings begin. It is also responsible for our reputation, which is — at our best moments — that of a publication, not an agency.
28
Years in Property
9
International Offices
$4.2B
Sold in 2025
98%
Client Retention
03 — By Neighbourhood
Where you live
matters more than what.
A property is a long answer to a question about a place. We've spent years getting to know the streets and squares we represent. Choose the postcode first; the home will follow.
04 — Our Brokers
Twenty-three people
who actually live here.
Each Maison broker has been working in their neighbourhood for an average of eleven years. They know which architects designed which crescents, who's selling in confidence, and which post offices are the slowest in the country.
05 — The Journal
A quarterly,
not a feed.
Four issues a year. Property essays, neighbourhood letters, market notes from our brokers. No promotional clutter, no algorithm.
All articles 
Issue 14 · Letter · 4 min read
A short defence of original sash windows
Issue 14 · Market Note · 8 min read
Lisbon's quiet decade: the Príncipe Real story
06 — In the Press
"Maison treats every transaction like a love letter to the building. The result is the rarest thing in luxury real estate — an agency you'd actually want to be on the other side of."
— Architectural Digest · March 2025
132
Featured in AD
7
Industry Awards
4.9
Avg Client Rating
1,400+
Closed Sales
07 — Sellers
List with us, not above us.
A flat fee. A working architectural photographer. Two brokers per property. Listings shown only to a vetted private list, until you decide otherwise.