Renovating from a distance is its own kind of project management. You own a place you can't always visit — maybe you inherited a 1970s ranch in another state, maybe you renovate the family cabin two flights away every summer, maybe you bought across a border (France, the UK, Italy) and now you're renovating from abroad. Perch was built for you, not for the contractor who drops by daily.
The audience is larger than it looks. About 3% of British households own residential property abroad — roughly 850,000 households (ONS Wealth and Assets Survey, latest available). Similar patterns hold across the EU and North America: second homes, inherited properties, cross-border buyers, families managing an aging parent's house from another city. Almost none of them are tracking the work in a tool built for them.
Three things go wrong when you renovate from a distance. First, you forget which text thread said what — and the contractor's third photo update lands in a thread you opened a month ago about something else. Second, the inspection report sits on your laptop and turns into PDF wallpaper because translating it into action across an ocean is its own project. Third, when something does need a decision, the back-and-forth is six emails long because nobody has the same picture.
Perch fixes the picture problem. Photo updates flow into a timeline you can scroll. Conversations stay attached to the work item they're about, with inline translation so a French artisan and a British owner read each other in their own language. The Plan Builder turns the inspection into a sequenced renovation plan with costs and contractor briefs. The Property Passport keeps the long-term record — quotes, contracts, milestones, decisions — so the next refinance or sale doesn't start from scratch.
EU-hosted in Frankfurt, GDPR-compliant. Free first property report with no credit card. Built by a founder who was renovating from a distance herself — a stone house in Burgundy, coordinated from Paris — and decided spreadsheets weren't enough.