Trading hotels, beachfront development land and permitted resort sites — held off the portals and released in stages to identified principals. Every figure sourced, every image labelled, every number rebuilt before you see it.
Where the owner allows it, a full presentation — legal position, development routes, price. Where the sale is confidential, an anonymised teaser, with location and guide price released under NDA.
A first-line seafront hotel with more than 15,000 m² built — space today's coastal rules would not permit anyone to rebuild. Sold with the operating business. 1–1.5 h to each of Crete's two international airports.
An unbuilt shoreline in one ownership, inside a zone designated for private urban planning. c. 1 h 15 from the new Kastelli airport.
First-line coastline with hotel use certified in 2021 and forest, watercourse and coastline clearances secured. Three development routes modelled on a real 215-day season.
Not every mandate is published. Coastal sites, trading hotels and premium residences are also shared by direct link after a short conversation about fit.
All opportunitiesBudget, asset type, timing and objective. If something fits, you receive the pack. If nothing does, you hear that too — and you are first to know when it does.
From 4,000 m² to several hectares, raw land to fully permitted — north, south and east coasts.
Operating assets and repositioning plays, with or without the operating company. Financials after NDA.
New-build and completed waterfront homes — Golden Visa eligible where thresholds are met.
Your lawyers and bankers will check everything. So every mandate is prepared as if they already are.
What can actually be built — use, coefficient, clearances, the regime a residential component falls under — established before a single render.
Revenue modelled on the real Cretan season, not 365 trading days. When a competing deck inflates a yield, we say so and show the working.
Artist's impressions are marked as such, on the image. Where a document dates from 2015, the page says 2015.
Qualified buyers can be introduced to an independent Greek financial adviser who structures Greek and EU tourism-development funding.
Principal, intended use and capital structure — a short exchange.
Location, title and guide price disclosed on signature.
Topography, planning file, vendor studies — with our notes on what needs re-verifying.
On the ground, with the advisers of your choosing.
Greek counsel, notary and counterparties coordinated to close.
Record arrivals, a new international airport under construction, and institutional money already committed — on an island where first-line coastal land cannot be manufactured.
Heraklion airport passengers in 2025 — an all-time record
Targeted commercial opening of the new Kastelli international airport
Publicly announced hospitality investment on Crete this cycle
Greek Golden Visa investment tier that applies across Crete
Sovereign wealth, American private equity and Greece's own hospitality families — every scheme publicly announced, with a named backer.
Pricing, yields, supply, regulation and infrastructure — the long-form case, in English, Arabic and Chinese.
Read the thesis| €800m | Elounda HillsMirum Hellas · 1 Hotel & Homes (Starwood Capital platform) · north-east coast |
| €267m | Itanos GaiaMinoan Group · Cavo Sidero, Lasithi |
| €235.8m | Cretan TaleBlue Frontier · Strategic Investment status · Rethymno |
| €220m+ | Ikos KissamosSani/Ikos, controlled by GIC · 420 keys · opened spring 2026 |
| €121m | South-coast strategic schemeSbokos and Vassilakis families · south shore |
Figures as publicly announced by promoters and the Greek press. Market context only — no connection to any property offered here.
Portugal, Spain and Ireland have closed their property routes. Greece's remains open — and all of Crete sits in its premium tier.
Qualifying investment tier for Crete real estate. Eligibility of a specific asset is confirmed by Greek legal counsel before commitment.
Assets of this size are not sold by portal listings. They are sold by finding the few groups that want exactly this — and reaching the person who decides.
The planning envelope, turned into development routes a buyer can price.
Operators, developers and capital whose strategy matches the asset.
Built in the language and brand logic of the group receiving it.
Confidential, targeted outreach — your sale never appears on a portal.
"My job is not to show you everything. It is to show you the few things worth your time — and to tell you plainly what still needs checking."
Orea Estate is a boutique practice on Crete working a small number of large coastal mandates at a time — hotels, development land and resort sites — for international buyers, family offices and developers.
Before real estate, Anna spent a decade in marketing and communications. That is why each asset here is researched down to its planning regime and presented to each buyer in their own terms, rather than listed and left to wait.
Most owners of hotels and coastal land on Crete do not want their sale on the open market — staff, operators and neighbours all read portals. Particulars are released in stages to identified principals, usually after a confidentiality agreement.
No. Aerials and concepts on this site are artist's impressions, AI-generated or AI-assisted, and labelled on the image. They show setting and scale, not an approved design. Real photography is available on request.
Crete sits in the €800,000 tier. Whether a particular asset and ownership structure qualifies is confirmed by Greek legal counsel before you commit.
Qualified buyers can be introduced to an independent Greek financial adviser who structures funding from Greek and EU tourism-development programmes. Terms depend on the project and the buyer.
Enquiries are answered personally, in English, Russian or Greek. Include your intended use and budget range and the first reply can already be specific.
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