Hypomo — The Boutique Estate Agency of Malta & Gozo

The boutique house of Malta & Gozo

We find your home. In ninety days.

The whole market — listed and off-market. One concierge, on your side of the table and never on both. Buying, our fee is 2.5%, paid at closing.

Open a file — six places remain See recent finds ↓

No keys, no fee · Ninety days or you owe nothing · A reply within one business day

№ 01 — The Practice

One side of the table. Never both.

We act for buyers searching for a home and for owners selling one — but never for both parties to the same transaction, and we say in writing which side we are on before you see anything. For a buyer that means the whole of Malta and Gozo searched: the listed market and the quiet one, the houses that were never going to be advertised. The house carries at most forty searches at a time; the register begins, as a rule, at one million euro.

Every client is assigned one concierge — your dedicated agent, the same person from first call to closing — who answers their own telephone and handles the file to the handing over of keys. Most searches end at the second or third introduction.

“The harbour is four minutes on foot. Six, if one pauses. We measure everything this carefully.”

Carmela Vella — Keeper of the Register

Every candidate is visited, measured and documented by the house before you are shown anything. And if Hypomo is not the right house for your search, we will say so on the first call — and suggest where to go instead. Ask us →

Three desks.Malta · Bratislava · Atlanta

2.5%. The whole fee.Paid at closing. Nothing from sellers, ever — the arithmetic →

No lockboxes. Ever.A member of the house opens every door

Answered on the second ring.Mon–Sat, 08:30–19:00

The Promise

If we fail you, we pay for it.

You are buying a house in a country whose paperwork you do not know, from a market whose quiet half you cannot see, through an agent the seller is paying. We cannot take every risk in a purchase onto our own books, and you should not believe a house that says otherwise. These three are ours, in writing.

The Ninety-Day Search — Your home in front of you within ninety days, or you owe nothing.
The Clean Title Guarantee — If we miss something a proper search should have caught, the fee comes back.
No Keys, No Fee — Nothing is due until the keys are in your hand.

Open a file — six places remainThe fee is 2.5% — fixed in writing before we begin, paid at closing, and nothing is taken from any seller. See the arithmetic →

One fixed fee carries all of it

The whole-market search — listed, quiet, and never advertised
Off-market soundings — notaries, architects, other houses' back rooms
Every candidate visited, measured and photographed before you travel
The negotiation, conducted on your side of the table
Konvenju, AIP permit and notary, coordinated to the final deed
Keys, handed over by a member of the house

The Grand Harbour of Malta from directly above — pastel turquoise water, honey limestone bastions, a few small fishing boats — The Grand Harbour, from directly above

№ 02 — The Search Book34 of 40 client files open · 6 places remain

Recently found.

№ 07 — Valletta

Casa Perellos

Three balconies. One is superfluous.

Palazzino · 340 m² / 3,660 sq ft · 5 roomsFound — off-market, 11 daysHave us find you one like № 07

№ 19 — Mdina

Palazzo Perla

Sixteen rooms within the walls; the courtyard and its stone are original.

Palazzo · 610 m² / 6,565 sq ft · 9 roomsFound — never advertisedHave us find you one like № 19

№ 31 — Għarb, Gozo

Ta’ Lellux

A farmhouse of honest proportions, with its original well and a walled garden.

Farmhouse · 280 m² / 3,015 sq ft · 7 roomsFound — 4% under askingHave us find you one like № 31

Sixth floor, facing open water to the north. Balcony of 14 m².

View — open sea, northTerrace — 14 m²Ownership — freehold, owned outright

Find me one like № 03 →Read the dossier for № 03 →

A converted waterfront store on Dockyard Creek. Morning light until eleven.

View — Dockyard CreekRoof terrace — 22 m²Ownership — freehold, owned outright

Find me one like № 11 →Read the dossier for № 11 →

A walled orange garden of some sixty trees behind the house.

Garden — 900 m², walledPool — yes, discreetOwnership — freehold, owned outright

Find me one like № 22 →Read the dossier for № 22 →

The piano nobile — the grand main floor — of a 17th-century house. Ceilings at four metres (13 ft); closed balcony to the street.

View — Triq l-IfranBalcony — traditional, closedOwnership — freehold, owned outright

Find me one like № 28 →Read the dossier for № 28 →

High above the bay, with a west-facing courtyard of 60 m².

View — Xlendi bayCourtyard — 60 m²Ownership — freehold, owned outright

Find me one like № 34 →Read the dossier for № 34 →

The house carries forty client searches at most, one concierge to each. Eight recent finds are shown; the rest of the book is disclosed in conversation.

Thirty-four of forty places at the desk are taken.
Six remain for new searches.

Request an introductionThree questions, about a minute. A reply within one business day. When the fortieth file opens, the house is full and new searches wait.

№ 03 — The Viewing RoomFive recent finds · One set

Recently found, replayed.

A seafront apartment building in Sliema — pale golden stone, a wide balcony facing turquoise open sea

№ 03 — Sliema

The Seafront Apartment

Sixth floor. The balcony faces north over open water — fourteen square metres of it.

Apartment · 190 m² / 2,045 sq ft · 3 rooms

Found in 9 daysHave us find you one like № 03 →

Every address shown went to a client of the house. Nothing on screen is for sale — the set least of all.

№ 04 — The Districts

Where we search.

The capital: baroque, walkable, and never anonymous.

The Grand Harbour — 4 min on footMalta Intl — 18 min by carFound here for clients — 9

The Three Cities — the waterfront 3 min on foot; Valletta by ferry 10 min; 7 entries. Sliema & St Julian’s — the front 2 min; ferry 15 min; 8 entries. Mdina & Rabat — the bastions 3 min; airport 20 min; 6 entries. Gozo — the Citadel 12 min by car; ferry 25 min, hourly; 4 entries.

Golden Bay, Malta — a straight row of cream and seafoam striped beach umbrellas on golden sand before a flat turquoise sea — Golden Bay, at ten in the morning

№ 05 — The Manner of Working

How it goes.

You write, or you call.

The telephone is answered on the second ring, Monday to Saturday, 08:30–19:00. A written note is answered within one business day.

One concierge. Yours.

A single member of the house handles your file from first call to keys.

Introductions, by appointment.

No lockboxes; no unaccompanied viewings. We open every door ourselves.

The fee is fixed, stated in writing before we begin, and paid at closing — keys in hand, not before. There is no step four.

Begin with three questions — it takes about a minute →

For buyers from abroad

Buying from America.

Can an American buy in Malta?: Yes. Non-EU buyers need the AIP permit — the Acquisition of Immovable Property permit — which is routine for a qualified buyer. We prepare and file it for you.
Is there an MLS?: No. The market lives across rival agencies, notaries and word of mouth; no single list shows everything. This is precisely why one retains a buyer's agent.
How does the purchase go?: Offer, then the konvenju — the promise-of-sale, Malta's version of going under contract — with a 10% deposit. The notary, who in Malta is the lawyer who searches and verifies title, takes about three months. Then the final deed, and keys.
What does it cost, beyond the price?: Stamp duty of about 5%, the notary at 1–2%, and our fee — fixed, stated in writing before we begin, paid at closing. Most purchases here complete in cash; local financing works differently than in the States.

Six time zones are no obstacle; the desk in Atlanta keeps your hours, and the wall clocks keep the rest. Ask your questions plainly →

The Blue Lagoon at Comino — three painted luzzu boats at anchor in a row over bright turquoise shallows — The lagoon at Comino — twenty-five minutes by boat

№ 06 — The Ensemble

Six people. Each answers their own telephone.

Carmela Vella

Keeper of the RegisterTwenty-one years · MT · EN · IT+356 2033 0098

Emanuel Borg

Concierge, Valletta & the Three CitiesNine years · MT · EN+356 2033 0098

Isolde Cachia

Concierge, Sliema & St Julian’sSeven years · EN · FR · DE+356 2033 0098

Teodor Grech

Concierge, Mdina & the villagesEleven years · MT · EN · IT+356 2033 0098

Nadia Sammut

Concierge, GozoEight years · MT · EN+356 2033 0098

Dorotea Xuereb

The Archivist — permits & the konvenjuTwelve years · MT · EN · IT+356 2033 0098

№ 07 — The Journal

Entries, dated.

Entry 118 — 12 June

№ 31 enters the register

A farmhouse in Għarb, admitted on the second ballot. Notes on its condition, its well, and its provenance.

Entry 117 — 28 May

On the matter of lockboxes

A note on why every door on the register is opened by a person, from the inside, at the agreed minute.

Entry 116 — 9 May

Gozo, revisited

Notes from three weeks of measuring on the second island.

A symmetrical white three-tier diving platform over a calm turquoise sea, with cream changing cabins along the promenade — The lido, Sliema — open since 1962

The Front Desk

Kept to the minute, in three cities.

Valletta—

Bratislava—

Atlanta—

The Isle, Catalogued ◦Malta · Bratislava · Atlanta ◦Answered on the second ring ◦One side of the table — never both ◦Forty searches, no more ◦Six places at the desk remain ◦2.5% — paid at closing, not before ◦Never both parties to the same sale ◦No keys, no fee ◦If we miss it, the fee comes back ◦Ninety days, or you owe nothing ◦No lockboxes, ever ◦Domum Invenimus ◦The Isle, Catalogued ◦Malta · Bratislava · Atlanta ◦Answered on the second ring ◦One side of the table — never both ◦Forty searches, no more ◦Six places at the desk remain ◦2.5% — paid at closing, not before ◦Never both parties to the same sale ◦No keys, no fee ◦If we miss it, the fee comes back ◦Ninety days, or you owe nothing ◦No lockboxes, ever ◦Domum Invenimus ◦