Perch was founded in Paris by Clémentine Pouille, who started building the product while renovating a stone house in Faverolles, Burgundy, from a distance, coordinating French artisans on a property she could not visit weekly, in conversations she had to translate. The first version of Perch was a spreadsheet she built for herself to keep the project from collapsing into a tangle of half-read text threads.
The thesis: remote property ownership is more common than it looks. About 3% of British households alone own residential property abroad: roughly 850,000 households (ONS Wealth and Assets Survey, latest available). Add the inherited family homes, second houses, investment properties two flights away, pieds-à-terre, and holiday homes across the rest of Europe and North America, and the audience is in the millions. They use spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads, email chains, and a lot of mental tracking. Perch replaces that with one shared record everyone on the project can see.
Hosted in the EU (Frankfurt), GDPR-compliant. No third-party sale of personal data. No behavioral profiling. Open about what we store, what we don't, and what you can export, the Property Passport is yours and Perch is built so you can leave with everything intact.