Philippe Menager & Nicolas Hug, a boutique agency on the high-end market

Small by virtue of size and confidentiality yet big in consideration of its clientele and the quality of its listings, the agency founded 22 years ago by Philippe Menager believes that real estate can be sold as works of art and has been seeking out properties large or small but with an exceptional quality that warrants a place on their books. It is now going international.

Franco-british, with many years’ experience in the art market like his associate Nicolas and a former lecturer at Paris university, Philippe Menager is an aesthete, with a passion for architecture and interior design, who loves the thrill of matching people and places. “Making a sale after just one viewing, or better still, selling a property on trust without the buyer bothering to come and see it, as we have done on several occasions, is an amazing achievement”. Also, since the agency works confidentially and operates largely by reference, it frequently has exceptional, off-market listings where the utmost discretion is required by the owner. Another characteristic is the high-quality service provided to prospective buyers, in order to save them the challenging experience of finding a suitable apartment or house in a city that unlike other countries does not have a multiple listing or sole agent system and requires going from one broker to another, many of whom merely show what is in haste to sell. “We have a good rapport with other brokers and will share fees with them, so as to enable foreign buyers to deal with just one agent and make the process of finding a property an easy one”. For all these reasons, Knight Frank, one of the world’s largest property consultancies with offices in 58 countries, have chosen Philippe Menager & Nicolas Hug as their exclusive partners for Paris.