Home Hunts - Luxury Property

What Home Hunts - Luxury Property does

Home Hunts is a private luxury residential buyer's agency founded in 2005 and headquartered at 55 Rue Saint Ferreol in Marseille, France, with operating geographies spanning France, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland. The firm acts exclusively on behalf of buyers rather than sellers, sourcing listed and off-market luxury properties (apartments, villas, chalets, chateaux, vineyards, hotels/gites) across high-end European destinations including the French Riviera, Provence, Paris, the French Alps, Mallorca, Ibiza, Costa del Sol, Monaco, Geneva and the Swiss Alps. Its core product is a Property Search Platform with 4,821+ listings and advanced faceted filtering, complemented by a human-led Property Finding Service that guides clients through search, due diligence and after-sales support (utilities setup, renovations, interior design, rentals).

The company differentiates through three specialized service lines: Super Prime for properties priced at €5,000,000 and above, Paris Pied-a-Terre for Paris Premier status luxury apartments, and Fractional Ownership for shared-equity luxury purchases. Multi-lingual advisory is delivered in 12 languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese), and the firm holds a carte professionnelle in France. Marketing is content-led via the website, the HH Property Blog, The Hunter online magazine, and social channels on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

The commercial model is buyer-side commission: Home Hunts provides its search and advisory services free of charge to buyers and earns a standard fee drawn from the selling agent's commission on closed transactions. Distribution rests on partnerships with immobiliers and selling agents, developers and owners that provide access to the entire market including off-market listings. The firm is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, no M&A activity, and no mobile app or public API; headcount sits in the 11-50 range consistent with a boutique advisory firm rather than a tech platform.

Name

Home Hunts - Luxury Property

Legal name

HomeHunts

Website

https://home-hunts.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Home Hunts is a private luxury residential buyer's agent, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Marseille, that sources listed and off-market properties across France, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland for international high-net-worth buyers, paid via commission from selling agents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Luxury Real Estate Brokerage Services

NAICS

Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (53121)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Buyer Representation Services (BPAJAAAJ)

Keywords

• Luxury real estate
• Buyer's agent
• Property search
• International property
• Real estate brokerage

Headquarters

HQ city

Marseille

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Buyer's Agent Commission: Home Hunts provides free property finding services to buyers. The company earns revenue by taking a standard fee from the selling agent's commission. This commission-based model means clients pay nothing directly for the property search and guidance service.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Home Hunts is a buyer's agent that searches the entire luxury property market on behalf of individual clients in France, Monaco, Spain, and Switzerland, including off-market listings made available through partnerships with selling agents, developers, and owners. The service is provided free of charge to buyers, with Home Hunts earning commission from the selling side upon successful transaction completion. Additional specialized services cover ultra-prime properties, Paris pieds-à-terre, fractional ownership, and after-sales support such as utilities setup, renovations, and rental management.

Product overview

Home Hunts is a buyer representation service operating across France, Monaco, Spain, and Switzerland, functioning as award-winning buyer's agents who search the entire luxury property market on behalf of clients. The core offering is the Property Search Platform, an online portal with advanced filtering capabilities for property type, location, price range, bedrooms, and features, covering apartments, villas, chalets, castles, vineyards, and other luxury property types. The company complements its platform with dedicated services including property finding assistance with after-sales support, The Hunter Magazine editorial content, Super Prime service for properties above €5M, Paris Pied-a-Terre specialized service, Fractional Ownership options, and comprehensive buyer education resources. The business model charges no fee to buyers, instead taking a standard fee from selling agents' commissions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Property Finding Service A full-service buyer's agent offering for individual clients searching for luxury residential property across France, Monaco, Spain, and Switzerland, including off-market listings accessed via partnerships with selling agents, developers, and owners. The service is provided free of charge to buyers and is remunerated by commission from the selling side upon successful transaction.
• Super Prime Service A specialised acquisition service for ultra-prime residential properties typically priced above €5M, providing tailored representation and access to high-value inventory for ultra-high-net-worth buyers.
• Paris Pied-à-Terre Service A focused service helping clients identify and acquire secondary residences or pieds-à-terre in Paris and surrounding areas, tailored to international buyers who want a city base in France.
• Fractional Ownership A fractional ownership offering that enables buyers to acquire a share of a luxury property, providing an alternative entry route into the prime residential market with reduced capital outlay.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Immobilier (Selling Agents/Real Estate Agencies) in FrancecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHome Hunts has partnerships with immobilier covering France, working with all the best selling agents, developers and owners in order to cover the entire property market for clients. These partnerships allow access to both listed and off-market properties.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• FrenchEntrée: FrenchEntrée is a UK-based property portal and resource focused on French property for international buyers. It overlaps with Home Hunts' UK-source buyer segment targeting France, providing an alternative discovery-and-information channel rather than a transaction service.
• JamesEdition: JamesEdition is a digital luxury property marketplace aggregating €1M+ listings globally, including significant European coverage. While not a buyer's agent, it competes for discovery and lead-generation attention from the same international luxury buyer audience Home Hunts targets.

Broad incumbents

• Barnes International Realty: Barnes is an international luxury residential network with strong presence across France and other European cities. It competes directly for luxury inventory and cross-border luxury buyers in Home Hunts' core markets, though Barnes operates as an agent-side firm rather than exclusively buyer's-side.
• Savills: Savills is a global real estate firm with strong luxury residential coverage across Europe's prime markets. It overlaps with Home Hunts in serving international luxury buyers in France, Spain, Monaco and Switzerland, but as a full-service incumbent rather than a specialist buyer's-side agent.
• Knight Frank: Knight Frank is a global real estate consultancy with a major European luxury residential network covering France, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland. As an established incumbent it competes for the same pool of UHNW buyers and luxury listings, though its scale and breadth exceed Home Hunts' specialist boutique positioning.
• Christie's International Real Estate: Christie's International Real Estate is a luxury brokerage network affiliated with the Christie's auction house. It serves very-high-net-worth buyers across European luxury markets with a brand aligned to fine-art and trophy-asset wealth, overlapping Home Hunts' Super Prime client profile.
• Sotheby's International Realty: Sotheby's International Realty is a luxury residential brokerage network with affiliates throughout Europe. It competes with Home Hunts for the same international UHNW buyer pool and luxury inventory, though it operates an agent-brokerage franchise model rather than a dedicated buyer's-representation service.

Direct peers

• Athena Advisors: Athena Advisors is a buyer's agent and property finder operating across France and Switzerland's Alpine markets, with a multilingual team serving international luxury buyers — directly comparable to Home Hunts in customer profile, geography and buyer-representation business model.
• Spot Blue International Property: Spot Blue is an international property search and buying agency helping overseas clients purchase real estate in Spain, France and other Mediterranean markets. It overlaps closely with Home Hunts in serving non-resident buyers navigating foreign purchase processes and earning commissions from selling agents.

Regional players

• Kyero: Kyero is a Spain-focused property portal serving international buyers interested in Spanish real estate. It overlaps with Home Hunts on the Spanish side of the business (Mallorca, Ibiza, Costa del Sol) as an alternative discovery channel for the same buyer personas.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/HomeHunts
• Facebookfacebook.com/Homehunts
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/home-hunts
• Instagraminstagram.com/home_hunts
• Xx.com/homehunts

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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