{"id":4929,"date":"2024-07-15T14:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valmontriviera.com\/our-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:44:02","slug":"our-agency","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.valmontriviera.com\/en\/our-agency","title":{"rendered":"Our agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Real estate family office & luxury property boutique<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Valmont Riviera<\/strong> is a real estate family office and luxury property boutique, founded in 2015 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. We guide our clients through the sale, purchase, rental and management of their properties, as well as the legal, tax and estate questions that come with them.<\/p>

The coastline we cover stretches from Monaco to Saint-Tropez, with a particularly strong presence around Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Villefranche and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. It is not a large territory. That is exactly the point: we know the houses, and more importantly, we know who owns them.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Founder & CEO \u00b7 Doctor of Law<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cAn exceptional property calls for a discerning eye and a bespoke strategy.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ana Garcia <\/strong>made law her first language, and exceptional real estate her calling, for almost eighteen years. Trained in international relations and economics, she graduated top of her year with a DEA (postgraduate degree) in European politics before completing a doctorate in public law at Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, where she taught and conducted research for several years. <\/p>

In 2015, she founded Valmont Riviera in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Since then, she has advised on the sale, acquisition and rental of exceptional properties, and has led some of the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur\u2019s most significant transactions. Her expertise in real estate finance and economics, acquired at the London School of Economics, adds a financial dimension to her legal background. <\/p>

It is this dual expertise that defines the Family Office dimension of Valmont Riviera. Beyond finding the right property, Ana Garcia advises her clients on how best to structure its ownership and integrate it into their wider wealth strategy: from legal and tax structures and acquisition planning to wealth management and succession. Supported by a trusted network of notaries, lawyers, tax advisers and architects, she oversees every project from beginning to end, from the initial search through to completion, with discretion, precision and complete attention to detail. <\/p>

Working across seven languages, she serves an international clientele alongside a team of multilingual agents who share her commitment to discretion, excellence and integrity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Origin of Our Name<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The name Valmont Riviera is no accident. Inspired by the Vicomte de Valmont, the emblematic figure of Choderlos de Laclos\u2019s Les Liaisons dangereuses<\/em>, it evokes refined elegance, strategic intelligence and a subtle mastery of the art of negotiation. Valmont Riviera brings that same sensibility to exceptional real estate: a discerning, considered approach to every property we represent, and to every relationship we build. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Most of what we sell is never advertised<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The properties that matter on this coast rarely reach a property portal. Many never reach the market at all. They move between owners who are willing to consider a sale only if the approach is discreet, and only if it comes from someone they already trust.<\/p>

Access of that kind is not bought with an advertising budget. It is built slowly: through notaires, family offices, private bankers, architects, and through the owners themselves, over years. A confidential portfolio is available to clients on request. It is not published, and it is not sent unsolicited.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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We are not only agents<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ana Garcia<\/strong>, who founded the agency, holds a doctorate in public law and works in seven languages. That background changes the nature of the conversation.<\/p>

A villa on the C\u00f4te d’Azur is rarely a simple purchase. It raises questions of ownership structure, of transfer duties and the 3% annual tax, of copropri\u00e9t\u00e9 regulations, of servitudes and building rights, of what a foreign holding company does and does not allow. These questions are usually raised too late, once the structure is fixed and the cost has become permanent.<\/p>

We raise them first. We work alongside your notaire, your tax counsel and your bank, without taking their place. We know enough to ask the right question at the right moment, and to tell you when an answer you have been given deserves a second look.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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How we present a property<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We produce our own films, in-house. There are no actors in them. No staged breakfasts, no couple walking away from the camera, no lifestyle assembled for the lens. We do not furnish an empty room with borrowed objects.<\/p>

Music is chosen with the same care as the image, because it carries as much of the impression as the image itself.<\/p>

We also leave things out. An empty terrace at the hour when the light is best tells a buyer more than the same terrace filled with people. This restraint is not modesty: it is accuracy. A serious buyer is looking for the house, not for a fantasy about themselves.<\/p>

This approach has built an audience of more than 100,000 followers on Instagram<\/strong>, reaching close to a million people each month. For sellers, that is distribution no regional agency of our size could otherwise offer. For buyers, it is the reason owners take our call.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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DISCOVER OUR PROPERTIES<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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