Estate
Multiple properties, grounds, and staff under one steady hand.
An estate is a small institution. It deserves institutional discipline.
Across several properties, household operations become a management discipline: budgets, vendors, staff, projects, and a standard that holds whether or not the family is in residence.
That complexity increases across seasonal residences and multiple locations, where openings and closings, capital projects, household inventories, vendor relationships, and staff leadership must remain coordinated. The right estate professional creates continuity across properties without requiring the principal to manage the details.
We place the senior professionals who carry that responsibility, and the teams they lead.
The professionals who run properties.
- Estate Managers
- Full operational charge of a property or portfolio: staff, budgets, projects, and vendors, reporting directly to the principal or family office.
- Directors of Residences
- Senior oversight across multiple homes, holding one standard of service in every location the family lives.
- Property & Grounds Managers
- Land, gardens, and the fabric of the buildings themselves, kept ahead of problems rather than behind them.
- Domestic Couples
- Two professionals, one household: a proven arrangement for estates that need residence care and property care in tandem.
- Estate Engineers
- Mechanical systems, pools, AV, and vehicles, kept running and properly documented.
The same practice, in every setting.
- ListenWe begin with the properties — their operating model, staff structure, standards, and what the role must actually carry — before any search begins.
- VerifyIdentity, employment history, and references are confirmed at the source. Every candidate is interviewed directly by Ellery.
- Stand behind itOur responsibility does not end on the start date.
Begin with a conversation.
Tell us about the properties and the structure you have in mind. Every inquiry is read and answered personally, in confidence.
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