Montopoli Group
Montopoli Group · Est. 1986
A bilingual advisory for private buyers and sellers of transatlantic residential real estate — practiced with discretion from Florence, Milan, New York, and Miami since 1986.
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Montopoli Group was opened in Florence in 1986 by Pietro Montopoli, on the premise that a home is never just an address — it is a private ledger of family, capital, and inheritance that crosses borders.
Thirty-eight years on, the firm is still family-led and still operates from the same conviction. We hold licenses in Italy and in four U.S. states, and we are the only brokerage on either side of the Atlantic whose entire practice is the cross-border movement of residential property between the two. We do not list suburban homes. We do not run portals. We sit at the table when a Tuscan farmhouse is sold to a New York family, and when a Manhattan pied-à-terre passes quietly to a Milanese principal — and we have done so 3,800 times over.
Our value to a private client is not a property list. It is a vantage point: an Italian notaio, a U.S. real estate attorney, and a CPA around one table, reading the same deed in two languages, while a vetted circle of 1,200 advisors in two markets works the off-market inventory that never reaches Zillow, Idealista, or Rightmove.
This is a slower, quieter, more deliberate kind of real estate practice. It is also the only one that has survived four decades of changing markets without changing hands.
P. Montopoli · Florence · New York · Milan · Miami
How we work
The ways a private client begins a relationship with the firm — each handled by the same partners, each bound by the same discretion.
For U.S. principals acquiring a primary residence, second home, or investment in Tuscany, Lombardy, Liguria, the Lakes, Rome, or Puglia. We translate the notaio process, structure the codice fiscale, and pre-clear visas, trusts, and tax residency before a viewing list is drawn.
Begin a buyer mandate →For Italian families relocating capital, students, or principal residences to New York, Miami, or the Hamptons. Entity structuring, 1031 exchange, FIRPTA planning, and school selection — coordinated in one language with the people who will close the deed.
Begin a buyer mandate →A private seller mandate drawn from our 740+ off-market portfolio and 41,000 pre-qualified HNW buyer profiles. No portal listings. No open houses. No photographs until the seller approves them. A signed NDA before the first inquiry.
Open a discreet sale →Every transaction above $3M is staffed by our in-house Italian notaio, a U.S. real estate attorney, and a cross-border CPA. They read the same deed, in two languages, before any signature is offered. This is the operation that closes our cross-border transactions in 47 days against an industry average of 112.
Featured in Forbes Global Properties, the Wall Street Journal Mansion section, and the Financial Times How To Spend It.
Meet the desk →For principals moving between Italy and the United States — residency, banking, schooling, art logistics, household staffing. Coordinated by a single partner across both desks, never handed off.
Plan a relocation →Thirty-eight years. Two markets. One ledger.
€612M closed in 2024 · 23% year-over-year · 97% repeat-client retention · #1 “International Luxury Brokerage — Italy to U.S.”, Robb Report 2023 & 2024.
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Fourteen editorial placements in the past five years. · Italian Trade Agency Lifetime Achievement, Rome, June 2022.
Private Consultation
Every conversation begins with a partner, not a form. Tell us where you are considering, and we will reply, discreetly, with the names of the two people who will work your mandate.
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