Facing the Musée Galliera: the story of an acquisition on Rue Freycinet

“We are in one of the most prestigious addresses in Paris, the Chaillot district, in the heart of the 16th arrondissement.” That is how Ladan Miranz, property hunter at Home Select, opens the film of this search. Behind the sentence lies a brief carried out for a client living in the United States, and an apartment that nothing destined to be found from the other side of the Atlantic.

Chaillot, the hill of museums

The Chaillot district runs from the Trocadéro down towards the Seine. A former village that became one of the most hushed parts of the capital, it lines up quiet avenues, a homogeneous Haussmann streetscape and a rare density of museums: the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée d’Art Moderne, and the Palais Galliera, built at the end of the nineteenth century for the Duchess of Galliera and now the City of Paris fashion museum.

Rue Freycinet is one of those streets you do not cross by accident. Short and residential, it faces the Musée Galliera: to live there is to have a museum for a neighbour.

A brief in a single line

The client behind this search lives in the United States. His brief held in one line, simple to state and difficult to satisfy: the exceptional, without compromise. An apartment with character, in a neighbourhood that never goes out of style, a few minutes’ walk from the museums and the Seine.

A sentence like that rules out, on its own, almost the entire market.

See a great deal, rule out almost everything

That is the real work of a hunter at the top of the market: see a great deal, rule out quickly, and only move the client for a home that deserves the trip. When the buyer lives thousands of kilometres away, that discipline becomes the very condition of the mission: every proposed viewing spends trust.

To miss nothing of what comes up on those streets, the search drew on the network Home Select has been building since 2011: 15,000 partner agents, told precisely what the client was looking for. In this part of Paris, the homes that matter are decided fast, and often before any listing.

Behind the facade

The chosen apartment stands behind a Haussmann facade on Rue Freycinet, facing the museum. An architect-led renovation preserved the elegance of the old, the mouldings and the period fireplace, while introducing a contemporary hand: a kitchen with Haussmann-inspired cabinetry and a marble backsplash, two en suite bedrooms with their own bathrooms, and a wraparound balcony overlooking a private mansion.

It matched every line of the brief. Getting there had meant ruling out everything else.

A negotiation on one side only

The mandate was exclusively buyer-side. The negotiation was therefore carried out for the buyer and for the buyer only, then every step coordinated through to the handover of the keys: the client, who stayed in the United States, had nothing to handle from the first viewing to the signature.

That is the definition of the craft as Ladan practises it: at the prestige end of the market, standing on the buyer’s side and on no one else’s, where the finest addresses go fast.

The search, on film

This acquisition is the first Home Select search told on film, by the hunter who carried it out. The film, the full facts of the search and its transcript are on the dedicated page: Freycinet, Paris 16th.

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