Property care in Greece for Greek-Australian families with inherited or family-owned property — built by someone who grew up inside the same diaspora story. Documented visits, photo reports in Australian-friendly time zones, full local admin, and the trusted person in Athens or Thessaloniki you've been meaning to find for years.
If you're reading this from Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Wollongong or Geelong — and there's an apartment in Greece that your father bought before you were born, or that your yia-yia left to your mother, or that's been "in the family" since the 1970s — this page is for you.
You know the story. You go back when you can. Maybe every summer for a fortnight in August. Maybe every couple of years. Maybe less, since the parents got older. Between trips, the apartment sits empty in Pagrati or Patisia or the village near Kalamata, and a quiet form of asset decay takes hold that nobody is really watching.
We're built for exactly this. A trusted person in Greece looking after your family's property, documenting every visit to insurer-acceptable standards, and handling the Greek-language admin that's hard to do from a kitchen table in Melbourne.
There's a remarkable consistency in how these properties end up needing professional oversight. The story has roughly five chapters:
That's the picture. If any of it sounds like your family, you're in the situation we built this for.
We visit your family's property on a regular schedule (monthly, fortnightly, or weekly depending on plan), follow the same comprehensive inspection checklist every time, and send you a timestamped photo report within 24 hours via WhatsApp or email. The format is asynchronous by design — you wake up in Melbourne or Sydney, drink your coffee, scroll through the visit summary, reply when it suits you.
ΔΕΗ electricity bills, ΕΥΔΑΠ or ΕΥΑΘ water bills, condo dues from the building manager, insurance renewals, ENFIA paperwork coordination with your Greek accountant. We handle the Greek correspondence, translate notices, flag decisions that need your input, and keep a running paper trail you can hand to a lawyer if you ever need to.
The γενική συνέλευση — the building general meeting — is where decisions about lift replacements, façade renovations, parking, special assessments and legal matters get voted on. As an absentee owner you have a vote and an interest, but most diaspora families miss every meeting because they're in Adelaide, not Athens. We attend on your behalf with your written instructions, translate the minutes, and flag major decisions before they're voted on.
Greek home-insurance policies typically restrict cover after 30 days of vacancy. Without documented attendance, the most common claims — water damage, vandalism, anything where delayed discovery worsened the loss — can be refused. Our scheduled visits and timestamped photo reports produce the documentation insurers expect. Read why this is the single most important thing we do.
When your family does come to Greece, we can have the apartment aired, cleaned, fridge stocked, AC pre-cooled, and a welcome arrangement waiting on the kitchen counter. Walk in to a home that's ready, not one that needs an afternoon at the supermarket and another at the cleaning shop.
"My grandfather died fifteen years ago and the apartment is still technically half my dad's, half my aunt's. We never finished the paperwork. Can you help?"
Short answer: yes, we can attend to the property in the meantime, and we can refer you to Greek-Australian inheritance lawyers (in Melbourne and Sydney, with Greek partner firms) who handle these cases as a specialty. The November 2025 Greek inheritance reform (Law 5221/2025) made the process substantially faster than it used to be — wills now register online, several notarial steps can be done with a limited power of attorney signed at a Greek consulate, and routine cases close in 4–6 months instead of 12–24.
Read our full explainer: If your family still owns a Greek apartment, here's what 2025–2026 changed.
All plans bill in euros and can be paid by Visa, Mastercard or SEPA direct debit. Annual billing saves ~20%. Add-on services (building meetings, ENFIA coordination, AC servicing) quoted before any work. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice. Full pricing details.
One of the most common reasons people sign up is to take the property worry off ageing parents. We can set the account up in your name (the adult child in Australia) and brief your parents on what we're doing — they get to keep their Greek summer trips, without the side of stress.
If your family property is somewhere not listed, contact us — we extend coverage regularly for the right properties and will tell you honestly whether we can serve you well or whether you'd be better off with a local in the specific area.
One 30-minute discovery call, scheduled at a time that works in Australian hours. We talk through your family's property, the history, the current state, what your parents currently handle and what's slipped. No pitch. No pressure. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you and refer you elsewhere.
If we proceed: a single 90-minute onboarding visit at the property in Greece, where we do a full survey, take possession of keys under our coded system, document baseline condition, and meet the building manager. From there, the regular visit schedule begins.
We become the trusted local presence in Greece your family no longer has. On a scheduled basis we visit the apartment, run a structured inspection (interior, plumbing, balcony, building common areas, mail), send you a timestamped photo report within 24 hours via WhatsApp or email, and handle local admin like utility bills, building meetings, insurance renewals and accountant liaison on your behalf.
Greece is 9 to 10 hours behind eastern Australia depending on daylight savings. All reports are sent via WhatsApp and email — asynchronous by default — so you wake up to your visit summary. For live calls, we offer evening Athens slots that match early-morning Australian time (a 7am Sydney call is 10pm Athens), and morning Athens slots that match late-afternoon AEST.
Yes. ΔΕΗ electricity, ΕΥΔΑΠ water, gas, condo dues, building meetings (γενικές συνελεύσεις), insurance renewals and accountant coordination on ENFIA and other property-tax filings are all available as member add-on services.
This is one of the most common situations we step into. Many Greek-Australian families have a parent in their seventies or eighties who has handled the property for decades and is no longer able to. We take over the day-to-day attendance and documentation, while keeping your parents in the loop. The transition usually takes one onboarding visit and a follow-up call.
That's a very common Greek-diaspora situation. Our home watch service doesn't require formal title transfer to begin (we operate under your written authorisation as the responsible family representative), and we work alongside Greek inheritance lawyers when the family is ready to close the case. Read our overview of the 2025 inheritance reform that made this easier.
Plans bill in euros. As of May 2026, €99/mo is roughly A$165, €149/mo is roughly A$250, and €249/mo is roughly A$415. Annual billing reduces these by ~20%. Compare that to a single refused insurance claim or one flight back to Athens to handle a problem in person — both run thousands of dollars.
Yes. Home Watch Greece is built and run from inside the Greek property world — a family with three generations in estate management and construction in Greece. We understand the diaspora context personally: family-built apartment blocks, parents who never quite got around to closing the inheritance, the silent assumption that someone in Greece is looking after it. We make "someone in Greece looking after it" a real, documented, professional service.
30 minutes. Australian-friendly time slot. No pitch, no pressure. We'll talk about your family's property and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.
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