For families abroad
There is a house, or a field, or a grave. It is eight thousand kilometres away. Nobody has been in years, and nobody is quite sure what the paperwork says.
Start here
Most families arrive with the same sentence: we have something in the village and we don't know what's happening with it. That is a fine place to start. The first job is finding out which of four situations you are actually in — and that is a short, cheap piece of work, not a long one.
What is never done is a free diagnosis of an entire matter followed by a large quotation. A short report is produced, you are told plainly what it found, and you decide from there. If the answer is there is nothing here worth pursuing, that is said in writing, and it is a real answer worth having.
What families ask for
Family grave care
Cleaning, the candle, fresh flowers, and a dated photograph after every single visit — with unrequested attention on the anniversary, the name day, and the Saturdays of Souls. Two visits a month.
from €45 a month
Property watch
Not house‑sitting. The legal position of the property is watched: changed locks documented on the day, encroachment photographed with a date, a registration or charge caught within the year, and a calendar of tax and insurance deadlines kept with reminders.
from €59 a month, or €310 a year
Family property map
The audit run before anyone dies — with the elderly parent present, consenting and taking part. Every property, every account, where each original document physically is, and every loose end such as an acceptance never registered in 1998.
€1,290
Memorial & exhumation
A municipal exhumation notice arriving in Toronto in Greek, three years after a death, is a moment of fear and shame. The options and the costs are explained in writing in both languages, the arrangements are made, and it is confirmed discreetly with photographs.
from €320
What this is not
- Not legal advice. Facts, documents and photographs are delivered. A Greek lawyer or notary does their part and is paid directly by you.
- Not property management. No keys are held, no tenants are managed, no occupier is confronted.
- Not a promise of an outcome. Nobody honest can promise you the field turns out to be yours.
- Not a family mediator. Where relatives are in dispute about a property or a grave, the instruction is declined.
- Never a search into a living person without their knowledge. The family property map is run with the parent's consent and participation, or it is not run.
How it starts
Write, in whatever detail you have. The village or municipality, roughly when the person died or left, whatever papers are in the drawer — even if it is one old contract and a half‑remembered surname. You will get a straight answer about whether there is something here, what it would take, and what it would cost.