Acropolis Real Estate, an independent buyer's agency

Acropolis Real Estate is an independent buyer's agency founded by Nicolas Milonas to help international clients acquire homes, offices and hotels in Europe. It draws on more than twenty-five years of cross-border investment experience, put at the service of buyers who are purchasing far from home.

Nicolas Milonas, founder

Nicolas Milonas has been President of Acropolis Group since January 1999. Based in Luxembourg, he has spent most of his career in cross-border investment, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and executive search, across four regions: Europe, China, Africa and the Middle East.

Key milestones, all on the public record:

• Acropolis Capital and Acropolis Entrepreneur Center (Shanghai, since 2014): support for investors and entrepreneurs, cross-border fundraising between France and China, and the search for strategic partners and acquisition targets.
• Great Wall Investment (Luxembourg, since 2013): China–Africa–Middle East relationships for infrastructure finance and construction.
• Acropolis Associates (since 2005): executive search in China for international groups in life sciences and industry.
• French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China (CCI France Chine): elected board member from 2019 to March 2024.
• IAE Grenoble: chair of the admissions jury for the eMBA France Shanghai programme since 2005.
• Business France: partner in China for the V.I.E international graduate programme since 2010.
• OnlyLyon ambassador in Shanghai from 2004 to 2015.

Before 1999 he spent twenty years in senior roles (purchasing, trade, sales, marketing and production) with international groups in Europe, Asia, North America and the Gulf. He holds an MBA and a research master's in marketing from Université Paris Dauphine, an eMBA from Franklin Hudson (Paris and New York) and a business diploma from IUT de Saint-Denis.

His full career history is available on his LinkedIn profile.

What this network brings to an international buyer

Buying a prime property abroad involves far more than an agent: a notary, a lawyer, a tax adviser, a bank, sometimes a translator and an architect. Coordinating these professions is what Nicolas Milonas has done for years in cross-border investment. For our clients, that means three things:

• Access: long-standing relationships with private investors, family offices and advisers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, who are also a source of unlisted properties.
• Rigour: the due diligence habits of M&A apply equally to a hotel, an office building or a villa.
• Bridging cultures: two decades of work between France and China, and fluency in French, English and Greek, help people with different business customs work together.

Our commitments

We represent the buyer only. We hold no sales instructions: our interests are those of the purchaser, and the purchaser alone. Our fees, from 2% of the purchase price (VAT included) with a minimum flat fee on quotation, are set out in the search agreement before any work begins.

Confidentiality is the rule. Your identity, budget and criteria are shared only with the people who need them, and only with your consent. Off-market files are exchanged under a non-disclosure agreement whenever the seller requires it.

We tell you when a property is wrong. Part of our role is to advise against a purchase: a price out of line, a technical defect, a planning or co-ownership constraint.

No promises we cannot keep. We guarantee neither returns nor timescales; we commit to method, transparency and the quality of our analysis.

Our offices

Acropolis Real Estate receives clients by appointment in Paris, at 231 rue Saint-Honoré (75001), and in Luxembourg, at 54 rue Charles Darwin (L-1433). Meetings can also take place by video call. From these two offices we cover Paris and Île-de-France, the French Riviera, Luxembourg and Greece.

To explore our markets, see our pages on our work as a Paris luxury property finder, a Luxembourg property finder and on Greece golden visa real estate, or return to our overview as a luxury real estate buyer's agent in Europe. For a first conversation, book a private consultation.