About Maréval

The Maréval story

A boutique advisory built on a simple refusal: never to treat a significant home as inventory.

Our Story

Built slowly, on purpose

Maréval began in 2008 as a two-room office on the Promenade des Anglais, founded on the belief that the finest homes are rarely sold — they are placed, quietly, between people who were introduced for a reason.

We have grown since, but deliberately little. Two offices, a handful of advisors, and a strict ceiling on how many mandates any of us carries at once. It is the only way we know to give a significant home the attention it deserves.

Most of what we do never appears in a listing. That is not secrecy for its own sake — it is what our clients ask of us, and what the houses themselves are owed.

Sunlit interior of a Maréval residence

2008

Founded in Nice

300+

Homes placed

9

Markets covered

60%

Placed off-market

Milestones

A short history

  1. 2008

    Founded in Nice

    Isabelle Maréchal opens a two-room office on the Promenade des Anglais with a single conviction: significant homes deserve unhurried advice.

  2. 2013

    The first quiet placement

    A Cap Ferrat estate changes hands without ever being listed. Off-market placement becomes the house specialty.

  3. 2017

    North to Stockholm

    A second office on Strandvägen extends the network to the Nordic archipelagos and lake districts.

  4. 2024

    A deliberate ceiling

    Maréval caps active mandates per advisor. Growth in reputation, not in volume.

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