Someone fell in love with our apartment on Teréz Körút based on the listing.
The only thing was, it wasn't a buyer—it was the editor of the TV show Property Hunters on RTL.
I asked:
- You won't make it look like someone else is selling it, right?
- No, there are no real estate agents in the show.
Then during the shoot, the "expert" arrived and asked if the electricity meter was a gas meter, and then whether there was underfloor heating under the traditional parquet floor.
We were relieved: indeed, there are no real estate agents in the show...
Then a red SPAR grocery bag appeared.
Out came a pair of pink plush chickens, plastic hens, and two pink mugs with the inscription:
"Real Estate Chicks."
Just like that, our elegantly staged studio turned into a poultry-themed reality show in a split second.
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We stage homes so well that even RTL TV producers fall in love with them - though we won't bring the pink chickens!
Luxury penthouse in Rózsadomb. Fantastic panoramic view, elegant living room.
The owner is just telling us what we need to know about the property when I hear a strange growl.
- What’s that?
- "Oh, the dog woke up."
It turns out there’s a Chinese fighting dog on the terrace, and even its owners don’t have much control over him.
- “He only bit me once.”
Reassuring.
The next moment, a bloodhound-like beast is standing right behind us, hackles raised, growling.
My bag is held up as a shield in front of me, while my colleague still has her back to the dog.
In the end, our thick blue shoe covers saved us.
The dog tore mine off my foot with snarls and growls, while we backed out of the apartment, preserving whatever was left of our dignity.
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We can’t promise we’ll fight your guard dog for every sale—but if you take it for a walk, we’ll definitely sell your home.
Orsó Street. Apartment for sale.
Keys in hand, gate code in hand.
Except the gate code didn't work.
I asked an elderly lady leaning out the window to let us in...
Her short answer:
- "NO"
We tried to slip in behind a rather large lady who was just arriving.
Bad idea. Within seconds, two formidable matrons surrounded us. One had an umbrella, and I ended up in such tight man-to-man defense that I could barely breathe.
- "YOU ARE NOT GETTING IN HERE!!!"
By that time, the buyer was begging them to let me go, saying they wouldn't move here even if they were paid to.
In the end, we called the owner, corrected the wrongly written gate code, and made it inside.
We even managed to convince the buyer by saying:
"You definitely won't find a building this secure ever again."
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Even if there are two combative old ladies and an umbrella standing between the buyer and the apartment, we will still get the sale done!!!
The buyer indicated that they would bring a technical expert with them for the second viewing.
We were happy to hear it. For a major purchase, that's completely understandable.
The expert arrived, looked around, and then pulled out a metal coat hanger. Holding it away from himself, with an expression of intense concentration on his face, he walked around the apartment several times.
- "There's a water vein running through here," he declared firmly in one of the bedrooms adjacent to the bathroom.
We asked him how he knew.
Később kiderült, hogy villanyszerelő…
We managed not to burst out laughing.
And the buyer bought the apartment.I
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We even survive the expertise of the experts.
Downtown apartment, keys in hand.
According to my colleague, the tenant isn't home.
We recognize the apartment by the Queen of Spades stuck on the door.
Found it. We tried the keys, but without success. Suddenly, the small window on the door opened.
A man was standing in the window.
Stark naked.
He looked at us, then asked with total calm:
- "CAN I HELP YOU???"
After that, he ripped off a yellowed piece of newspaper from the window, discretely held it in front of himself, and cheerfully invited us in.
We sold the apartment.
And we learned one thing forever:
Just because they say the apartment is empty and even give you a key to it, a surprise can hit you at any time...
We handle it with a total poker face even if someone answers the door completely naked in an "empty" apartment...
Three major and complex transactions have closed over the past few days. Each had a story behind it that had been unfolding for years, carefully coordinated compromises, and very human emotions.
We managed to bring to a successful conclusion an agreement that lawyers had been working on unsuccessfully for more than a decade.
We would also like to thank our firm’s legal counsel for the continuous support behind the scenes. With a great lawyer, anything is possible!
We sold two jointly owned propertiesand, in the process, may even have helped bring some peace between two family members who had been at odds for a long time.
We sold another property in Paloznak.
This marks our fourth successful transaction on Mandula Street, with its full panoramic views of Lake Balaton..
It’s no secret: Paloznak is one of our favourite villages on Lake Balaton. 
Three completely different transactions. Three stories.
And all three are a good reminder that real estate brokerage is sometimes about much more than simply selling a property.
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Just Another Day in the Real Estate Jungle…
That day, we were planning to show two beautifully renovated apartments belonging to the same owner. They had identical specifications, and we were showing them simultaneously.
First call of the morning:
“Good morning, could I have the address for today’s viewing?”
“Of course. Let’s meet at noon on Teréz Boulevard, by Oktogon, in front of McDonald’s.”
A brief silence, followed by:
“And what does the sign say?”
I’d say… McDonald’s.
From noon onwards, the viewers arrived back-to-back — 26 of them, precisely on schedule, like a group yoga class. Each person then moved on to the second apartment, where my colleague was waiting for them. Synchronized real estate.
One viewer walked in, introduced himself and immediately asked:
“How big is the apartment again? What’s the price? Could you tell me about it?”
“Sorry, didn’t you see the listing?”
“I didn’t have time to read it…”
He’d only come to view a property. Why bother reading about it first?
Then a young couple arrived. The man was carrying an A4 notebook filled with questions.
“Is it undivided common ownership? Are there any easement rights? Does the cadastral map show exactly the same thing?”
“This is an apartment,” I explained. “Not a detached house.”
“Oh, sorry. I found the questions online. I’ve never bought an apartment before — how am I supposed to know?”
Definitely didn’t ask ChatGPT…
Then an elegant Chinese lady appeared and walked in just ahead of another gentleman.
“Are you together?”
“I have no idea who she is.”
The lady spoke neither Hungarian nor English. We tried communicating through a translation app. Unsuccessfully.
She slowly walked around the apartment, filming everything.
We silently watched her for about 20 minutes.
We had no idea who she was. She wasn’t on the list of people booked for a viewing.
Perhaps someone was making an international documentary about me without telling me…
By now, we were almost 30 minutes behind schedule, with clients inside the apartment and two more waiting outside the door. Then came another round of questions:
“What’s the price? How many square metres? What are the monthly common charges? Does it have its own separate land registry number?”
This was probably the ninth time that day.
“I’ll copy the listing and send it to you…”
“I’m not interested in the listing! I want to hear it from you! That’s what you’re paid for!”
And that was the moment I understood: This wasn’t a property viewing at all. It was an audition. And apparently, I had the leading role…
In the end, several buyers competed for the apartments, a bidding war developed, and we sold both for several million forints above their asking prices.
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If you’re renovating a property,
don’t just make it look good.
Make it safe too.
During the renovation, it sounded like this:
-“I don’t need an invoice. Just make it cheap.”
One year later, just before signing the sale and purchase agreement:
- “What do you mean the apartment is DANGEROUS?!”
The electrical safety inspection is mandatory.
And that’s when you discover that:
• the washing machine and water heater are operating without proper grounding,
• the fuse box has been installed incorrectly,
• the entire electrical system is dangerously unsafe.
The buyer pulls out.
The sale falls through.
The true cost of “saving money”? A complete electrical rewiring, delays and financial losses…
(And you’re lucky if it doesn’t cost you an electric shock or a house fire.)
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The first one was about to fall apart.
And if the first deal collapsed, the other five would go down with it: payments, moving dates, handovers — everything.
We needed a lawyer willing to take on a complicated contract termination. We work with an exceptional real estate lawyer. She sorted it out.
And within five days, we sold the apartment again.
Five more days later, the previous land registry filing had been removed, the new one registered, the new buyer had paid, everyone in the chain was able to pay their own seller — and we didn’t even have to cancel the movers booked for the following day.
Behind the scenes, all it took was around 90 phone calls, four Messenger groups running simultaneously, and a five-hour marathon viewing session. .
At the end, we finally sat down and had a drink.
We did it. Again.
The more complicated the deal, the greater the challenge — and we love a challenge.
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For us, staging isn’t simply an appointment in the calendar.
It’s more like a small-scale moving operation — with guaranteed muscle ache the next day.
Before one photo shoot, I stopped at a flower shop. Both shoulders were loaded with overstuffed IKEA bags, I had a studio light in one hand and a glass vase in the other. All I needed was the right bouquet of flowers.
The florist was on the phone. She looked at me, then gestured firmly:
“Go away!”
I stared at her, completely confused.
Then, even more irritably:
“I’m not buying anything!!!”
So there I stood with two IKEA bags, a studio light and a vase, thinking that surely my outfit made it fairly obvious that I wasn’t exactly a door-to-door salesperson — or one of those perfume sellers jumping out of a Mercedes. For a few seconds, I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about.
Then it clicked.
She thought I was trying to sell her the vase.
I started laughing. Then she did too. We stood there laughing for several minutes while she apologised profusely.
And ever since, I’ve been wondering:
Maybe it’s time to rethink the outfit I had always considered so perfectly me…
We don’t just list properties — we dress them for sale. Even if, in the process, someone mistakes us for the salespeople selling the props!
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Thirty phone calls in two days.
By the third day, six people were already waiting outside the house before the first scheduled viewing even began. BMW X6s, Mercedes GLSs — the kind of line-up you rarely see even when selling luxury property.
One family immediately asked whether they could have the house if they slipped us HUF 500,000 under the table.
My answer was simple: NO
Add it to your purchase offer instead!
Then the bidding started. Arguments. Shouting. Another six prospective buyers. Another offer. Threats…
Meanwhile, my colleague kept tugging at my elbow from behind:
“Gabi, maybe we should just leave. They’re going to beat us up…”
They didn’t.
And in the end, we sold the house for HUF 3 million above the asking price.
If necessary, we can handle the chaos too — and when it comes to price, we always aim for the best possible result.
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At the request of one of our major property developers, we were searching Budapest for entire residential buildings available for purchase. That’s how we found ourselves in the crumbling, ramshackle, yet incredibly vibrant world of a traditional Budapest courtyard building.
In the courtyard: a caravan seemingly left behind from the 1980s, a banana-tree “oasis”, shared toilets, chickens and roosters roaming freely, barking dogs — and one enormous trampoline.
Accordion music, televisions and radios blared from the apartments.
The open-air corridors seemed to be held together by little more than divine intervention, yet the building’s long-time residents sat out there in rain, snow and freezing weather.
There was a young man in a suit, the building caretaker, residents rather fond of alcohol and nicotine — and even someone who occasionally seemed to misplace his trousers.
Then, suddenly, there was an enormous crash.
A brick had fallen from the crumbling wall of the neighbouring building, hit a sheet of metal and ricocheted straight into the middle of the trampoline.
Everyone came running.
Fortunately, there were no children on it.
A developer had previously planned to renovate the building, but the project had fallen through. And so everything remained exactly as it was.
And the residents remained on the open-air corridors.
Waiting to see what would arrive first — a new developer or the next falling brick.
That’s where we came in. We negotiated individually with all 34 residents until, eventually, the entire building became the property of our developer.
We don’t only know how to sell beautiful properties — we see opportunity where others see only ruins.
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One cold winter morning, my phone rang. On the other end was an agitated client informing me that he was going to report us to the police.
“He knows exactly what we are doing in the empty house he entrusted us to sell.”
Apparently, the neighbour had seen my colleagues going into the property in the evenings as well.
“With buyers?” I asked, surprised.
After all, that was their job.
- “According to him, not exactly…”
I tried to picture my elegantly dressed female colleagues, instead of working, getting up to no good on the floor of an unheated, dilapidated house that was being marketed essentially at land value and was destined for demolition — albeit in an excellent location.
I couldn’t quite imagine it. The client, however, was deadly serious.
So serious, in fact, that it became an official matter.
In the end, I had to make a formal statement confirming that neither I nor my colleagues had used the property for “purposes not specifically related to the sale.”
The police officer taking the statement was struggling not to laugh.
I was less amused.
In the end, the client apologised for initially believing the neighbour.
And we sold the property after all.
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Before coming to us, the apartment had been listed for four years by various real estate agents.
Once we took it on, we showed it on just two occasions to a total of 15 prospective buyers, and within a month and a half, the right buyer came along.
There was just one small complication.
The buyer wanted to convert the apartment into a medical practiceand would only purchase it if the condominium approved this use.
The buyer understood that the apartment required a complete renovation.
They were also willing to contribute to the necessary renovation works of the building itself..
But first, they needed certainty that a medical practice could legally operate there.
From that point on, selling the property was no longer simply about opening the door to another prospective buyer.
We spoke to the residents and owners throughout the building.
We secured the support of
10% of the owners required to call an extraordinary general meeting..
The meeting was convened.
With 75% attendance, we succeeded in obtaining approval for the apartment to be used as a medical practice in the future.
The buyer’s condition was fulfilled.
We sold the apartment.
After four years of unsuccessful marketing, we secured an accepted offer within a month and a half. But this time, finding the buyer was not enough.
We also had to create the conditions that made it possible for them to actually buy the property.
That, too, is part of real estate brokerage.
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It was 2019.
Our buyer wanted to purchase two high-value properties at the same time.
There was just one condition:
either he could buy both of them, or he didn’t want either one.
Each apartment was priced at around HUF 400 million .
That is serious money even today.
But back in 2019, a simultaneous HUF 800 million sale was the kind of transaction that could have put an agent at the top of the sales rankings even at the largest real estate networks.
And we were just a relatively small, 17-person agency at the time.
So yes, it was rather exciting. 🙂
One of the selected apartments was just about to be rented out. A tenant had already been found, willing to pay several million forints a month, but the owner was also open to selling if the right offer came along.
At the other property, a commercial lease worth several million forints a year had just expired.
Everything seemed to be falling perfectly into place.
We prepared both offers.
Since the two completely unrelated sellers needed to accept them at practically the same time, we invited both of them to our office for the same appointment.
Two separate rooms.
Two colleagues.
Doors open.
And me running back and forth between the two rooms, trying to make sure the signatures happened virtually simultaneously.
We simply couldn’t risk one seller accepting while the other refused.
Because then our buyer would have wanted neither property.
We were almost there.
Pens ready.
Documents on the tables.
And then one of the sellers suddenly asked:
– And what happens if the tenant exercises the right of first refusal in the lease agreement?
...
THE WHAAAAAT????
Until that moment, I had never heard a single word about it.
The sales colleague had somehow forgotten to note this “tiny” detail in the listing agreement.
And had also completely forgotten to mention it to me — the person responsible for closing the transactions.
SIGNING STOPPED.
I spent the following week trying to do two things at once:
while finding out whether the tenant of the other property intended to exercise their right of first refusal.
while finding out whether the tenant of the other property intended to exercise their right of first refusal..
And if they did…
how I could persuade them otherwise with the least possible collateral damage.
It wasn’t easy.
But I found a way.
Both sales went through successfully.
Our buyer got both properties.
Both sellers sold.
And we successfully closed the HUF 800 million transaction.
At this point, I could probably offer some profound professional wisdom about how, in a complex real estate transaction, every tiny piece of information matters.
But there is another memory from that day that has proved far more enduring.
That was the day the walls of my office — and my “forgetful” colleague — discovered the particular glass-shattering pitch of my scream that nobody had ever heard from me before.
Not once in 58 years. 😇
Sometimes real estate is surreal.
And we love it.
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We had a listing on Hűvösvölgyi Road, in a building consisting of just two apartments. The other apartment was being marketed by another real estate agency.
Our buyer was interested in that apartment as well, so we got to know the other agent, who warned us right from the start:
– The owner is an interesting elderly lady. She doesn’t sign anything.
They didn’t even have a signed listing agreement with her.
There was one other minor problem:
every time they brought her an offer, she raised the price…
I said to the agent:
– Set up a meeting for me with her.
Over the years, I’ve learned that I can find common ground with almost anyone.
You just have to find the right “button” to press. With some people it’s travel. Others love animals. All I knew about this lady from the other agent was that she was diabetic.
So I turned up to meet her with a homemade cake free from all the ingredients she needed to avoid.
She made us coffee.
And we started talking.
It turned out that she was 89 years old and sharp as a razor. She could calculate VAT in her head faster than I had ever seen anyone do it.
It also became clear that she wasn’t particularly motivated to sell the apartment. She had no relatives and no urgent reason to sell. She simply needed to pay the fees for the care home where she lived — and that seemed to be rather more important to the care home than it was to her.
I told her about some of my clients in their eighties who had found plenty to enjoy at that stage of life. Including my mother, who at 86 plays Scrabble every day and regularly wipes the floor with everyone.
The rather stern and not particularly friendly expression she had when we first met gradually began to change.
First, she softened.
Then she started to smile.
By the end, we were laughing together.
An hour and a half after I walked through the door, the lady who “doesn’t sign anything” signed a listing agreement specifically for our buyer.
And our buyer bought the apartment.
The lady was HUF 150 million richer.
The cake was gone.
The apartment was sold.
And in the end, everyone was happy. 😊
A real estate agent doesn’t need to find the key to the property. They need to find the key
to the person.
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The kind of stress that can test even the most seasoned nerves… 😅
– A seller who, “purely out of goodwill,” almost cut us out of the deal...
A prospective buyer who didn’t make an offer, then threatened us after missing out on the property...
A buyer whose father handled everything on his behalf with such unnerving thoroughness that, after a while, even we started to get a little scared...
– – 10 separate sets of questions by email, each more than three pages long.
– Countless phone calls– even at 10 p.m. – instead of simply reading a five-page technical specification...
– Our first-ever five-hour contract signing outside Budapest,held in a damp, smelly, waterlogged basement…
– And a “he’s a friend, he won’t charge anything” criminal lawyer whose whose free advice nearly cost the buyer three times as muchas the entire fee of a competent real estate lawyer would have.
And we still got both deals done.
We survived. 
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It sounds good, but neither an algorithm, a spreadsheet, nor even an expert opinion can tell you with absolute certainty how much buyers will actually be willing to pay for a specific property.
The real feedback comes from the market itself: the buyers who view the property and then make an offer.
Over the past month, we have come across two properties that had previously been significantly undervalued by fellow “experts.” At the same time, an automated property valuation tool missed the mark by almost HUF 10 million.
There is no one-size-fits-all formula for valuing a property.
The market price is not a predetermined figure. It is the value ultimately validated by buyers and the offers they are willing to make.
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