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.