THEn a historical moment in which the cost of housing in large Italian cities is growing dramatically, real-time rides current events and proposes Home at first sight. Based on the French format Chasseurs d’apartthe protagonists are real estate agents (three) ready to challenge each other to satisfy the requests of their customers. The first episode airs tonight at 20.20the program is available on discovery+.
Home at first sighthow does it work
The three real estate agents carefully examine the requests of their customers and kickstart the search with the right characteristics. The goal is to outperform the competition and get the better of colleagues, as well as making those who turn to them happy. The customers, all very demanding, are couples with or without children and families.
The first word belongs to the potential buyer, who explains to the agents what he is looking for. Subsequently each of them looks for the right house to propose. So the three guided tours begin, one agent at a time, while the other two comment connected in a van not far from the house.
The customer chooses who among the three hit the mark with the choice of the property, thus decreeing the winner of the bet, who wins a cash prize. Furthermore, during the episode, the brick experts provide various useful tips for those looking for a new home or wanting to be updated on the latest market trends.
Mariana D’Amico, Gianluca Torre and Ida Di Filippo, three of the real estate agents of “Casa a prima vista”. (real-time)
The real estate agents of Milan
Home at first sight relies on two teams of experts, located in Milan and Rome. Mariana D’Amico, Ida Di Filippo and Gianluca Torre are based in the Lombard capital. Mariana has been in the real estate business for 15 years and is co-founder of an agency. On social networks, he shares moments of his private life, but above all he dispenses useful advice to those looking for a home to buy.
Ida is originally from Campania and maintains the irony and truthfulness of her land. He works in an agency that collaborates with institutional institutions, who buy buildings and then resell the individual apartments. He always has a prompt answer, even when faced with the requests of the most demanding customers.
Gianluca is outgoing and cheerful, with a strong propensity for public relations, thanks to a past in the advertising sector. For some years now, he has decided to change his life and enter the real estate business. On her Instagram profile she shows several dream apartments who knows if she doesn’t do the same in Home at first sight. Real Time calls him «the VIP agent».
“Home at first sight”, from left: Blasco Pulieri, Nadia Meyer and Corrado Sassu, the Rome agents. (Real Time).
Home at first sight, the experts of Rome
In Rome, aspiring clients can count on Nadia Meyer, Blasco Pulieri and Corrado Sassu. Of Trentino origin and Roman by adoption, Nadia is a former model, who has been in the real estate business for eight years. He works in an international agency, focused on luxury properties. The values on which he bases his professionalism are loyalty and transparency.
Blasco is Roman and focuses entirely on empathy. Before becoming a real estate agent, she worked as a journalist and in the theater industry. In the end, Corrado, manager of five stores between the capital and the Lazio coast. Determined and ambitious, he had clear ideas from a very young age: he opened his first branch for a real estate group at the age of 22.
The other cities where the program is set
Episode after episode, the agents go hunting for the house at first sight, not only in Milan and Rome, but also in other neighboring towns. Between these, Bergamo, Lake Maggiore, Fregene and Ostia. The Italian adaptation of Chasseurs d’apartmade by Blu Yazmine, comes after the success achieved in Belgium, Germany, Holland and Norway with the title Flat hunters.
The search for a property, preferably a dream, is also the protagonist of a Netflix series: Family agency: luxury properties. The agency, this is the original title and arriving on May 24 with the third season, tells the private and professional vicissitudes of the Kretz family, owner of a real estate agency in Paris. Again, at the center of the story only properties from a thousand and one nights.
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