04The house
MERIDIAN & VOSS was founded in Geneva in 1974 to do one thing: represent exceptional property with the same discretion a private bank extends to capital. No shopfront, no window cards — a book of addresses, and a reputation for closing quietly.
Half a century later the method is unchanged. We act for a deliberately small number of owners at any one time, across forty-one countries, and we still decline more mandates than we accept. Scale was never the ambition; being the first call was.
Most of what we sell is never advertised. Most of our clients arrive by introduction. The house has been built on the understanding that in this market, the finest things change hands in private.
M&V
Est. Geneva · 1974
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Transacted since 1974
Across 41 countries and four generations of ownership
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Never publicly listed
The majority of what we place is transacted off-market
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Years of practice
Established in Geneva, 1974. Independently held since
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International offices
Geneva, London, New York, Milan, Paris, Dubai, Singapore, Miami, Hong Kong
The house in print
07Why the house
Anyone can list a property. The value of an old house is everything that happens around the listing — quietly, correctly, and in the client's name alone.
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Sixty-eight per cent of what we transact never reaches a portal, a window, or a press release. Sellers of consequence do not advertise, and the properties that matter most are placed through relationships rather than listings.
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Our fee does not depend on which property a client buys, which means we can tell them when the answer is none of them. Last year we advised against eleven acquisitions that we were instructed on.
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Ownership vehicle, jurisdiction, succession, and tax position are settled before an offer is made — not after. We work alongside a client's existing counsel rather than replacing them.
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A house is a fifty-year relationship, not a transaction. We retain staffing, maintenance, and management oversight on more than two hundred properties we have previously placed.
09The principals
No call centres, no graduate trainees. Every mandate is the responsibility of one named principal, and your calls reach them directly.
10What clients said
We ask for written consent before quoting anyone. What appears below was sent to us, or said in a recorded conversation, and released for publication.
"They talked me out of the first two houses I wanted. The third one I have now owned for six years, and I understand why."
"Our family office reviewed four advisors. Meridian & Voss was the only one that arrived with a structuring position rather than a portfolio."
"The property never appeared anywhere. I was shown it on a Tuesday and we exchanged on the Friday of the following week."
"Clara spent eleven months on the listed consent before we saw a single room. That is the part nobody else was willing to do."
"I have bought property on three continents. This is the only firm that has ever sent me a valuation I disagreed with and turned out to be right about."
"Discretion is easy to promise. In four years, not one person outside my family has known what I own or what I paid."
11Selected mandates
Three mandates we are allowed to discuss publicly. Names redacted, outcomes reported. Most of what we close never appears here — the discretion clause survives the final signature.
Case 01
Geneva, Switzerland · 2024
A lakefront estate held by one family since 1948, transferring across three heirs in two jurisdictions — none of whom wished to sell to the same buyer.
Structured as a staged transfer with a single acquiring vehicle. Completed in fourteen months without the property reaching open market or a single valuation being disputed.
Case 02
Raffles Place, Singapore · 2025
A family office in Jakarta sought Grade-A exposure in the Singapore core. The first asset we modelled did not survive our own diligence.
We advised against the initial target and spent a further seven months sourcing a freehold alternative. Acquired at 4.6% gross with a 6.2-year WALE and no single tenant above 22% of income.
Case 03
Cap Martinet, Ibiza · 2023
A headland plot with an expired consent, a protected sightline, and a client who wanted to build rather than buy.
Consent secured after eighteen months and two redesigns. The completed house holds one of the last unobstructed westerly aspects on the headland, and a rental licence that can no longer be issued.
