Lake Como, Italy
€18,500,000
Request the dossier →Six homes we have the honour of representing privately. The full dossier — including drone footage, condition reports and provenance — is available on request.
An 8-bedroom oceanfront retreat sleeved in handmade glass, set on 3.4 acres of private dune. Architect: Toshiko Mori, 2019.
A 14th-century stone villa above the Val d'Orcia, restored with modern intent and original frescoes preserved by the Soprintendenza.
A six-storey freehold townhouse on a private gated square, with 50-foot south-facing garden and Grade II-listed façade.
Twenty-three further properties are held in our private register and shown only on enquiry.
Request the full register →Real Day Estate was founded in 2014 in Mayfair as an antidote to the "shop window" of mainstream property listings. We work for buyers and sellers who do not wish to advertise.
Our office is small by design — twelve associates across London, New York, Milan and Singapore, each with a specialism (heritage, modern, coastal, urban) and a private register. We never auction, never broker speculation, and never list publicly without consent.
— Eleanor Whitfield-Hayes, Founder & Principal
What our clients ask of us, in confidence — and what we provide, without subcontract.
We hunt off-market on your behalf — a single point of contact, twelve months a year, on a clear retainer. No commission games, no double agency.
We sell without advertising. Your home is shown only to vetted buyers we already know — never on a portal, never to a "tour".
Tax, structure, residency and trust counsel via our network of partners — co-ordinated through one office, billed transparently.
For listed properties: we project-manage restoration with conservation architects, artisans and craft consultants we have used for years.
For owners who travel: we keep your home running — staff, security, gardens, vendors, accounts — and report monthly with photographs.
An archival service for sellers and buyers: we research title chains, architects, owners, awards and press — packaged into a bound monograph.
"They sold our family villa without ever publishing a single photograph. The process took eleven months and one introduction.
Reflections on the markets we work in, the houses we love, and the people who quietly built them.
For thirty years the supply was bottomless. We argue, gently, that the era of casual restoration is now ending — and what that means for the next decade of buyers.
November · 2026
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