Private Brokerage — Est. 2009
Houses that were
never listed.
We represent a small number of architecturally significant American estates each year — and we move most of them before anyone knows they exist.
We start with the approach.
Every house we build begins at the street. Board-formed concrete, a slow reveal through the courtyard, and glass that only opens once you are inside. The first thirty seconds decide the offer.
The Collection
Six houses currently
under our care.
Each is photographed, filmed and positioned by us before a single buyer is contacted.
Malibu, California
Carbon Ledge
Cantilevered over the Pacific bluff.
Beverly Hills, California
House on Angelo
A 1968 case-study estate, fully restored.
Aspen, Colorado
Red Mountain Lodge
Blackened timber against the treeline.
Manhattan, New York
Tribeca Penthouse
Full-floor, four exposures, private lift.
Napa Valley, California
Oakville Vineyard House
Twenty-two planted acres and a stone cellar.
Palm Springs, California
Desert Pavilion
Glass, shade and a black-bottom pool.
The Approach
We sell the hour
the light lands.
A qualified buyer at this level is not persuaded by a floor plan. They are persuaded by a feeling they already had, made visible. So we shoot at dusk, we film the water, and we write the house the way its architect would have described it.
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Eleanor Vaughn
Founding Principal — DRE 01884420
The Principal
Seventeen years.
One kind of house.
Eleanor began at Sotheby's International in 2009 and left in 2014 to build a practice that takes fewer listings and does considerably more with each. She represents architecture — Neutra, Lautner, Ando, Olson Kundig — and the private clients who understand what those names carry.
Off-market representation
Discreet placement without public exposure
Pre-market positioning
Film, photography, editorial and staging direction
Private buyer matching
A closed list of 340 vetted principals and family offices
Private List
Eleven of our last
fourteen sales
never reached the MLS.
The private list receives one email a month: what quietly came available, and what quietly went. No newsletters, no market reports, no forwarding.
Represented Clients
“She sold Angelo Drive in nineteen days without a single public showing. I still don't know how.”
Introduction
Tell us about
the house.
Whether you are placing an estate or looking for one, the conversation begins the same way — privately, and without obligation.
9200 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1200
West Hollywood, California 90069
eleanor@vaughnandco.com
+1 (310) 555-0184