Alpine Property was formed in 1999 to address the need for an estate agency serving international property buyers in the Alps. It was centered around the principle that the complex and often daunting process of buying property abroad is best served by professional, local advice in your own language.

In its infancy, Alpine Property concentrated on properties in the Morzine and Les Gets area, finding foreign clients for the local estate agents in the area. It soon became clear that there was a pressing need for a full-service estate agency specifically catering for foreign buyers - and so it was that Alpine Property expanded its service to become a one-stop-shop offering its own properties and accompanying clients along the entire property-buying process. In order to provide this service in France, estate agents must hold a ‘Carte Professionelle’ to show that they are properly qualified, licensed and insured. Renewed annually, the ‘Carte Professionelle’ requires agents to demonstrate th