For Australian and New Zealand families buying a second home in the United Kingdom or France. We find it, buy it, restore it and look after it — so you arrive to a house that is ready.
Lana Estates works exclusively for Australian and New Zealand families who are buying — or already own — a second home in the United Kingdom or France.
We are the people on the ground here. We help you find a property worth pursuing. We assess its condition and the feasibility of what you want to do with it. We renovate or build it to a standard that matches your primary home. And we manage it for you, year-round, while you are at home in Australia or New Zealand.
We also work, by referral, with British and European families looking to build, renovate or restore a house in France.
We help you identify properties worth pursuing across Provence, the Côte d'Azur, the Cotswolds, the Home Counties and central London — drawing on relationships built over many years on the ground.
Before you commit, we walk the property ourselves. We tell you what is sound and what is not, what is possible and what is fantasy, and what the real cost of doing what you want will be.
We are the construction team. Not a referral, not a managed contractor. Thirty-five years of building in London, across the United Kingdom and in France sit behind every renovation, restoration and new build we take on.
When you are home, we are not. Monthly reports with photographs, seasonal opening and closing, gardens, housekeeping, every supplier — a house that is always ready for you to arrive.
Thirty-five years building in London, the United Kingdom and France.
A beautiful stone farmhouse looks the same to everyone in the photographs. The roof timbers, the septic that doesn't meet current regs, the cracked retaining wall behind the cypress trees — those are visible only to people who have been on a few thousand similar sites over a few decades.
When we walk a property with you, we are not selling it to you. We are telling you what the next eighteen months will actually look like, and what they will actually cost — before the offer rather than after.
Stone farmhouses, hilltop villages, the Friday markets. Gordes, Bonnieux, Ménerbes, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Eygalières. The classic Provence second home.
The coast itself, and the villages twenty minutes inland that still feel like France rather than a marina. Cap d'Antibes, Mougins, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Valbonne.
Primarily the 6th, 7th, 16th and the Marais. Pied-à-terres and family apartments.
Honey stone and the new London-in-the-country set. Daylesford, the Coln valley, Bruton-adjacent, the North Cotswolds.
Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex. For families who want London access without London compromises.
Mayfair, Belgravia, Chelsea, Notting Hill, Holland Park. Townhouses, garden flats, lateral apartments.
We are commissioned on projects in Provence, the Côte d'Azur and the Cotswolds.
Out of respect for the families we work with, finished projects appear here only with their consent. New case studies are added as houses complete and clients give the word. If you would like to see work we are not yet permitted to publish, we are glad to share it privately at the first meeting.
We work with a small number of Australian and New Zealand families each year. Whether you are still looking, have just bought, or already own a house here, we would be glad to talk. The first conversation costs nothing, and commits to nothing.
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