A private office works in both directions.

Pelagos is a private office for internationally mobile individuals and families. Greece is our deepest specialism and the place we chose to build from — but our clients' lives rarely sit within a single country, and neither does our work. A significant part of what we have done to date has been the reverse of the journey the rest of this site describes: helping people relocate to the United Kingdom.

It is a natural extension of the same model, not a separate business. The discipline is identical — hold the whole picture, sequence the decisions, introduce the right specialist at the right moment — only the destination changes. And on this particular route we have an advantage many advisers do not: a genuine London base, at 45 Albemarle Street in Mayfair, and staff who live and work in the UK rather than administering it from a distance.

Two clients, one challenge

In our experience, UK-bound relocations divide fairly evenly into two groups, and the coordination challenge is much the same for both.

• Returning Britons. Families who have spent years — sometimes decades — in Greece, the wider Mediterranean, the Gulf or further afield, and are now bringing their lives home. Re-establishing UK tax residency, re-entering the property market, arranging schooling and settling children who may never have lived in Britain before all have to happen in the right order.
• International families moving to the UK. Clients from across Europe, the United States and the Gulf establishing a base in London or the home counties — often driven by schooling, business interests, or the simple wish for a foothold in the UK. For them, the challenge is doing all of this in an unfamiliar system, without a trusted person holding it together.

What unites both is that they are making a significant, high-stakes move and want one steady point of contact who has done it many times before — rather than assembling a cast of disconnected advisers and hoping they coordinate themselves.

What a UK relocation actually involves

As with Greece, a move to the UK touches several separate areas that are usually handled by people who never speak to one another:

• Property — our UK property search is extensive and wide-reaching, spanning prime London and rural and county markets alike. Rather than spread ourselves thin trying to cover every postcode directly, we engage one of our trusted UK search partners for each brief — the right specialist for a Mayfair pied-à-terre or a country estate — while remaining your single point of coordination throughout. Our buyer-only discipline applies here exactly as it does in Greece: we act for you, never the vendor.
• Residency and visa status — for non-British clients, the appropriate visa route; for returning Britons, re-establishing status for accompanying family members who may not hold UK citizenship.
• Tax position — re-establishing or establishing UK tax residency, and how it interacts with assets, income and residency left behind in Greece or elsewhere. This is specialist territory and always handled by a qualified adviser.
• Schooling — arguably the single most time-sensitive element for families, with independent-school registration and assessment timelines that must be worked backwards from, often a year or more ahead.
• Banking and currency — UK accounts, and managing the EUR/GBP or USD/GBP conversion of proceeds from a sale abroad efficiently, where our currency partner adds real value.
• Logistics — shipping, healthcare registration, and the practical business of re-rooting a household.

Where Pelagos sits

Exactly where we sit in a Greek relocation: above the specialists, not among them. We begin with a single private conversation about what you are trying to achieve and by when. From that we build a sequenced plan — what must be decided first, what can run in parallel — and introduce you directly to the right UK specialists: private client lawyers, tax advisers, immigration counsel, education consultants, currency brokers. We then remain the connecting thread throughout, so nothing is lost between advisers who are each doing their job well but have no reason to talk to each other.

Property search across the UK

Our UK property search is genuinely extensive — from prime central London to the home counties and rural estates further afield. The way we deliver that reach is deliberate. Rather than claim to know every market in the country first-hand and be spread too thin, we work through a network of trusted UK search partners, engaging the right one for each specific brief. A search for a London townhouse and a search for a West Country farmhouse call for different specialists; we bring in whichever is right, and we stay the constant coordinating presence above them.

For you, that means one relationship and one point of accountability — Pelagos — with genuine specialist depth beneath it wherever in the UK you are looking. It is the same principle that governs everything we do: act only for the buyer, bring in the best person for each part, and never let coordination fall through the gaps.