Connecticut
Greenwich households are year-round, settled and staffed with real structure. The estates are substantial, the standards are long-standing, and the relationships between families and their staff often last decades.
Country estates on acreage — stone houses, stables, paddocks, tennis courts, long drives and outbuildings. Many households commute to Manhattan during the week and return for weekends and holidays, so the house has to run well with the family in it and without them.
Roles we search most often here
Greenwich searches usually begin with the person who will hold the household together — an estate or house manager who has run a property of this scale before. Build that relationship properly and the rest of the team follows more easily; get it wrong and every other hire becomes difficult.
Grounds, stables and outbuildings need people who are content to work outdoors and away from the house, and who will raise a problem before it becomes an emergency. We look for that temperament specifically, because it is the rarest thing in this market.
We spend real time with the property before we search for anyone. What the land needs across a year, which roles the family has struggled to fill, and how the household wants to be run next year all shape a shortlist that a job description alone would never produce.
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