Ipanema beach at golden hour — Rio de Janeiro, where ADV is based
About

Values & mission.

What we do, what we don't do, and why.

How we operate

A boutique brokerage, on purpose.

Art de Vivre is a CRECI-licensed Rio brokerage that sells and manages luxury homes. We've been doing the same thing since 2011 — selling and renting a hand-picked set of apartments and villas in Zona Sul, the West Zone, and along the Costa Verde — and we don't plan to scale that into something else.

No franchise, no call center, no junior passing you along. Charlie answers his own phone, the rentals desk knows every apartment by name, and the same person who replies to your first email sees the deal or the stay through to the end.

Late afternoon at Ipanema — the neighborhood ADV is based in
What we won't compromise on

Six things we hold to.

01

A hand-picked portfolio, not a catalog.

We list homes we know. If our name is on it, somebody on the team has been inside it, taken the elevator, met the building manager, and can tell you what it's actually like at 7am on a Tuesday.

02

One person, start to finish.

The person who picks up your first message handles the follow-through. No handoff to a stranger halfway through a deal or a stay, no losing the thread in a shared inbox.

03

Answered the same day.

English, Português, Français and Italiano — answered the same day, in Rio business hours, on email and on WhatsApp.

04

Straight answers.

If a property isn't right for you, we say so. If a number doesn't make sense, we show the math. We'd rather lose a deal than push the wrong one.

05

Licensed and accountable.

CRECI-RJ 009278/O. Escrow, ITBI, escritura — the paperwork is run properly. Our reputation is the one asset we won't spend.

06

Local, not generic.

We work Rio and the Costa Verde — Ipanema, Leblon, Joá, São Conrado, Angra, Búzios. We don't pretend to broker São Paulo, Florianópolis or Miami. Other people are better at those.

What we don't do

The work we turn down.

Boutique means saying no. A short list of the work we don't take on:

Listings we haven't seen.

We don't pass through listings we can't vouch for. If a building or a unit isn't on our list, it's because we haven't walked it yet — not because we're hiding inventory.

Party rentals.

Our short-stay homes are for guests who want to live in Rio for a week, not stage an event in someone's living room. We screen for it.

Pressure deals.

No artificial urgency, no "another buyer is circling." If a deal needs to close tomorrow to make sense, it doesn't make sense.

Off-market secrecy theatre.

Quiet sales exist and we handle them — but we don't dress an ordinary listing up as a "private opportunity" to manufacture scarcity.

Where to next

The rest of the site.

The pages people land on most. Start anywhere — Charlie or the desk will catch you on the other end.

Buy in Rio

Apartments and villas for sale across Ipanema, Leblon, Joá, São Conrado and the Costa Verde.

See homes for sale →

Stay with us

Hand-picked villas and apartments for a week or a season, with chefs, drivers and boats on one bill.

See short-stay rentals →

The buying guide

How a foreign buyer actually closes on a Rio property — CPF, escrow, ITBI, the full sequence.

Read the guide →

Communities

The neighborhoods we work — what each one is actually like, building by building.

Browse communities →

Experiences

Helicopters, speedboats in Angra, private chefs, Tijuca jeep tours, Carnaval at the Sambódromo.

See experiences →

Reviews

Every five-star Google review of ADV — buyers, sellers and guests, verbatim and unedited.

Read the reviews →

The journal

Long-form notes from the closing table — market reads, neighborhood pieces, photo essays.

Open the journal →

The map

Listings, restaurants and the places we send clients first — pinned on one satellite map.

Open the map →

About ADV

Who we are, where we work, and how the firm runs day to day.

Read about us →
The carioca way

ADV significa Art de Vivre, que quer dizer estilo de vida.

— Our founding line, kept in Portuguese on purpose.

Get in touch

For a home in Rio, or a week of it.

Write us in English, Português, Français or Italiano. Same day, in Rio business hours.