Lars Brunnhoff
The house understood before it is bought, and known for as long as it is owned.
Brunnhoff & Partners is a Private Residential Office. It takes a deliberately limited number of significant homes and stays with them — knowing the house, coordinating the people around it, catching what changes early, and representing the owner’s interest alone.
Two kinds of eye go into that. Lars Brunnhoff brings nearly twenty years of responsibility for demanding houses, first leading hotels and private institutions in Amsterdam, most recently a portfolio of internationally owned private homes in the Austrian Alps, and he leads every client relationship personally. Working beside him is a trained carpenter and former site manager with twenty years on building sites, who reads workmanship, wear and unresolved detail, whether a house is being assessed before purchase or a project is being built.
For a Homebase home this comes down to two moments. Before the sale, a buyer can have the house read and understood before committing, while the seller presents a home that stands up to scrutiny. After the sale, the new owner can keep the same continuity — the House File, the coordination, the care — for as long as they own it, whenever they wish.
Keep the team that already knows the home.
A home kept in order — its systems, documents and open points understood — is lighter to own and stronger to sell. For a new owner, that continuity is a choice: the same team can stay on, people who know the house in depth and take real pleasure in looking after its owners.
Before the sale
The house behind the presentation
A structured reading of the home before a buyer commits — visible condition, open points, and what the presentation doesn’t show — so a buyer knows exactly what they are taking on, and the seller’s home stands up to scrutiny. A practical owner’s judgement, with a clear pointer to which questions belong to a licensed architect, engineer or surveyor.
After the sale · the new owner
From keys to a working house
For the new owner who wants it: handovers, defects, warranties and deadlines, suppliers and documents arrive at once and in no order. Brunnhoff & Partners brings them into one sequence, with one accountable name, until the home works in practice for its owner.
The House File
A home genuinely known
The continuously maintained record of a house — condition, history, decisions, suppliers, warranties, keys, materials, open points. It belongs to the owner and passes with the home: the new owner inherits a house already known, not a fresh start.
While You Are Away
A house behaves differently when empty
Water, damp, technical systems, pool, garden, access and power all need attention in the months when nobody is there. The house is seen regularly, changes documented, and a monthly Owner’s Brief sets out what changed, what is closed and what needs a decision.
Projects
Planning included, building quoted
Furniture, built-in carpentry, interiors, garden, lighting, a room that needs rethinking. Developing an idea into a costed proposal is part of the mandate, at no separate charge. Only the building of an approved project is priced — one number for a finished, installed result.
The People Around the House
Their invoice is their invoice
Gardener, housekeeping, the pool specialist, the trades. Their recurring work is invoiced through the firm and passed on at cost, nothing added. Brunnhoff & Partners is paid by the owner, for judgement and continuity, and by nobody else.