Laurelle
& Sage Estates
A private buying office for Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills and Malibu — addresses sourced quietly, bought on your terms.
Tell us how you intend to live. We approach owners directly for the estates that never reach a portal, open them after hours for you alone, and negotiate with your name kept out of the room.
They opened a door in Bel Air that was never for sale.
Buying at this level in Los Angeles
Does this sound
familiar?
- 1The houses you actually want have never been on a portal.
- 2Agents talk. You need a search that stays out of the columns.
- 3You are shown inventory, when you asked for one particular house.
- 4No one can tell you what an irreplaceable view is honestly worth.
- 5Your week is in another time zone, and viewings are arranged around someone else's weekend.
- 6Buying through a trust or an entity turns a simple purchase into a negotiation about paperwork.
If one of those is your week, this is precisely what we were built for.
Since2018
The hard part
The best addresses are never listed.
Above Sunset, significant houses change hands between neighbors, architects and attorneys. By the time an estate is public, its owner has already declined three offers and met the buyer twice.
So the search becomes a series of polite dead ends — a broker who repeats your name at dinner, a viewing squeezed between someone else's appointments, a price nobody will justify. You are not short of options. You are short of access.
Privatemandate
A private mandate
Fewer houses. The right one.
Laurelle & Sage works by mandate, for a handful of families at a time. We approach owners ourselves, sign the confidentiality agreements, and open houses that were never advertised — through the architects, estate managers and private bankers we have known for years.
You see three or four residences, not thirty. When the right one appears, you already know its provenance, its neighbors and the number that closes it.
The private search
Homes you
won't find online
A few placements from this season: a canyon house bought before it was listed, a villa introduced to us by its architect, and a hillside estate shown at a viewing of one.
Where our clients live
Addresses that rarely change hands
From the gated lanes of Holmby Hills to the sand in Malibu, we know the houses, the families who hold them, and what it takes to be introduced.
How a mandate works
Four steps,
all of them private
Discreet from the first conversation to the day the title sits in your trust.
An hour, under confidentiality
We meet where you prefer and agree the brief: the life you want, the entity you'll buy through, the timeline, and exactly what your name is attached to.
A dossier, never a feed
We approach owners, architects and private offices ourselves and return with three or four residences — each with provenance, renovation history and true annual cost.
Doors opened after hours
You walk each house without an audience — in person, or live on camera from abroad — with our structural and design consultants beside you.
The offer, quietly made
We negotiate with the owner's counsel around what the family actually needs, structure the purchase for your trust or entity, and keep your name out of it until closing.
The Laurelle & Sage private client service
Your private mandate
Everything a private buying office does — sourcing, discretion, diligence and negotiation — held by one advisor who answers her own phone.
What you'll get
- Private consultation & written brief$2,500
- Off-market sourcing & owner approach$6,500
- Provenance, title & renovation diligence$3,200
- After-hours private viewings$2,800
- Valuation on irreplaceable properties$2,400
- Negotiation, entity structuring & close$4,600
What our clients say quietly
Most of our clients prefer not to be named at all. These three allowed us to publish.
They opened a door in Bel Air that was never for sale, and had the architect walk it with us. We closed in three weeks, and nobody knew.
I was in Singapore for the entire search. Isabelle walked every room on camera at midnight her time. I signed before I ever stood in the house.
Ours was not the highest offer. It was the one built around the family's timeline, and it is the one they accepted.
Who we are built for
For buyers who want one particular house,
not a list of them
Buying after a liquidity event, with a family office and a short calendar.
Gates, guest houses, and a name that never appears on the paperwork.
Purchasing from abroad, through a trust, with one point of contact in Los Angeles.
A house to keep in the family, chosen for its land as much as its address.
IsabelleMeet your advisor
Isabelle Marlowe
Founder & principal · private client service
I founded Laurelle & Sage in 2018, after a decade representing estates at a global brokerage where a client's name travelled faster than their offer. I wanted the opposite: a small book of families, absolute discretion, and access no portal can sell.
I grew up between the canyons and the coast, and I have been sitting at these dining tables for years. When a house is coming quietly, I usually hear about it long before the photographer is booked.
guarantee
Our promise to you
If it isn't right, we sell it — without commission.
If the residence we secured is not right within twelve months, we will list and sell it for you with no commission of ours. Since 2018 we have been asked to honor that once.
Before you book
Questions, answered
How is your fee handled?
In most Los Angeles purchases the seller's side carries the buyer's representation at closing, so the service costs you nothing. Where a house is entirely private, we agree a written mandate fee before we approach a single owner.
Can you keep our name out of it?
That is the point of the service. We sign confidentiality agreements, view after hours, speak to owners on your behalf, and buy through the trust or entity your counsel prefers. Your name appears at closing, not before.
How do you find houses that aren't for sale?
We ask. Years of relationships with owners, architects, estate managers and private offices mean we can approach a specific house on your behalf — and often find the family was already considering it.
What price range do you work in?
Most placements are between $6M and $40M. Below that we are happy to refer you to someone excellent.
We are buying from abroad. Does that work?
Half our clients are overseas at some point in the search. We view live on camera at your hour, coordinate with your counsel and bank, and can complete under power of attorney.
Ready when you are
Request a private viewing
Tell us the house you have in mind, or the life you want it to hold. Isabelle replies personally within one business day — and nothing is entered into a portal.