For overseas owners
Renovating a property in Greece, when you don’t live in Greece
You bought the house. Now you need someone in Corfu you can trust with the keys, the contractors and the paperwork.
The part nobody explains before you sign
The listing photos were beautiful. What follows is a building with a permit history you cannot read, a survey in Greek, and contractors who will quote a price without an agreed scope.
Most owners buying from abroad lose money in the same three places. They commit before knowing what can legally be built on the plot. They agree a price before anyone has defined what is actually included. And they have nobody on the ground whose job is to represent their interests rather than the builder’s.
None of that is a design problem. It is a problem of distance, language and accountability.
Send us the listing before you sign it
The most valuable thing we do often happens before you own the property.
Send us the listing and we will tell you what the building can realistically become — what can be kept, what has to go, and whether the result is worth the purchase. It is a short conversation that has talked more than one client out of a bad building, and into a better one.
What we take off your hands
Permits and technical drawings
The full technical file, prepared and submitted on your behalf.
Contractor tendering
We define the scope properly, then put it out to trades we have worked with before — so quotes can actually be compared.
Site supervision
Someone on site whose responsibility is the drawings and your interests, not the builder’s schedule.
Authorities, suppliers and trades
Every conversation that has to happen in Greek, happens without you.
How the work runs
- 1
Feasibility and site assessment
What the plot and the existing structure will allow.
- 2
Concept design and 3D visualisation
You see the finished space before anything is committed.
- 3
Permits and technical drawings
The technical file prepared, submitted and followed through.
- 4
Tendering and contractor selection
Defined scope, comparable quotes, a contractor chosen on merit.
- 5
Construction supervision and handover
Site oversight through to the last light fitting.
You don’t need to speak Greek. We do.
That is the entire point of working with us rather than managing it yourself from abroad.
We handle the contractors, the suppliers and the authorities in Greek. We report back to you in English, with photographs, so you can see what changed since last time without booking a flight. Payments follow completed stages of work, not the calendar.
You keep the decisions. We remove the distance.
Questions overseas owners ask
Can the renovation happen while I am abroad?
Yes. Most of our overseas clients visit occasionally, not continuously. We report in English with photographs so you can follow the work from anywhere.
Can you handle the permits for me?
Yes. We prepare and submit the technical file and deal with the authorities directly, as part of the project.
How do I know what is actually happening on site?
Regular photographic reporting, and payments released against completed stages rather than dates. If work has not progressed, the stage has not been reached.
What if the property has unpermitted or unregularised parts?
It is common, and it is one of the first things we look at. We will tell you what it means for your plans before you commit.
Do you work with owners who bought the property remotely?
Regularly. Several of our clients had not stood inside the building before they owned it.
Which languages do you work in?
We work with our clients in English, and with everyone in Greece in Greek.
Send us the listing before you sign it
Tell us about the property and what you want it to become. We will tell you honestly whether it can.
Tell us about the property
We work with our clients in English.