Architectural brokerage — Los Angeles, est. 2012

Architecture,
quietly
brokered.

Arke Estates represents a small number of design-led homes each year — houses by named architects, sold with discretion and without spectacle.

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White modern residence with clean stacked volumes and a landscaped courtyard in late-afternoon light

Currently representing fourteen homes across twelve cities

By appointment only

Curated listings

Three houses,
chosen slowly.

01 — 03

Low white modernist villa with floor-to-ceiling glazing reflected in a still swimming pool

Montecito, California — Studio Herron, 2019

Vedra House

$8,400,000

620 m²
5 bedrooms
Exclusive mandate

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Double-height living room with pale plaster walls, a suspended staircase and desert light

Palm Springs, California — Oficina Marés, 2021

Casa Alba

$4,950,000

410 m²
4 bedrooms
Newly listed

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Hillside residence at dusk, its glazed living level glowing above a dark landscaped garden

Los Feliz, Los Angeles — Berrigan Lane Architects, 2017

Linden Residence

$6,200,000

540 m²
4 bedrooms
Off-market

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Philosophy

The best homes do not announce themselves — they wait, precisely, to be understood.

Elena Voss, founding director

$1.4 billion

Volume sold since 2012

Average days on market

Cities, four countries

Process

Four steps,
no theatre.

The conversation

Every engagement begins with an hour in person — at our Venice studio or at your own kitchen table. We ask how you live before we ask what you want to buy.
The shortlist

You will never receive forty links from us. You receive at most five homes, each visited by us first, each held against your brief — including houses that are not publicly for sale.
The viewing

Unaccompanied and unhurried. We arrange private hours in each house at the times of day the architecture was designed for. Morning light is non-negotiable.
The close

One negotiator, one counterparty, no spectacle. Our average transaction completes in twenty-six days — most without the property ever reaching the open market.

Featured — winter 2026

Kessler Pavilion

Marfa, Texas

Long single-storey concrete and glass pavilion at dusk, its interior lit against a darkening desert sky

Arroyo & Finch Architects, 2021

A single low volume of board-formed concrete and glass on eleven acres of high desert. Six bedrooms arranged along a ninety-metre gallery; a lap pool set flush with the horizon line. Sold with the architects’ full drawing set and furniture schedule.

$12,800,000