There are 4 primary estate management roles: Property Manager, House Manager, Estate Manager and Director of Properties. We identified the skills, education, experience, and expectations of each role, as well as the process for entry and progression.
Estate gardening is more than just landscape maintenance; it’s guiding the development of a landscape over time, and it requires a specialized team.
Approaching the owner and/or their financial manager to discuss additional staffing needs requires a tactful and strategic approach. We've created a guide for Estate Managers with some key points to effectively communicate the need for expanding household staff, ensuring a successful outcome for all parties involved.
Recent headlines revealing that Jeffrey Epsteins's House Manager and Staff had been instructed, and bound by non-disclosure agreements, to share nothing of the activities going on in the home brought the topic of NDA's to the forefront of conversation.
