Private Acquisition
Tell me what you're looking for and I'll find it, including properties that have never been listed anywhere. I work through entity purchasing, curated vendors under NDA, and keep your name out of the process wherever I can.
Sunny Isles Beach · Miami Beach · Indian Creek
Waterfront Estates · Off-Market Access · Maximum Discretion
“Buying or selling a home at this level is a private matter. I treat it that way from the first call to the day you get the keys.”
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FormerSotheby's
About Mike de Graaf
“At Sotheby's I watched clients' names end up places they never expected. I started this practice because I thought it could be done differently.”
Before South Florida, Mike served in the Royal Netherlands Air Force and spent more than a decade running operations for some of the world's largest cruise lines across three continents. That kind of work teaches you to manage complex, multi-party situations without anything falling through the gaps.
It's a different way of thinking about a transaction than most real estate backgrounds produce. Combined with his years at Sotheby's International Realty, it shapes how he approaches every acquisition and sale in this market.
Former Sotheby's International Realty Advisor
Royal Netherlands Air Force Veteran
Founder, OSM International Services Inc.
Licensed Florida Real Estate Sales Associate
Fluent in English & Dutch — European & Latin American Markets
Three Ways I Work
Three engagements. Every measure taken to protect yours
How I Work
Four quiet steps, from first conversation to keys
One person. Not a team.
Most agencies assign you a lead agent and hand the rest to coordinators, assistants, and junior staff. Here, every call, email, and decision goes through me. You never explain yourself twice, and nothing gets lost between people who don't know your situation.
Your name stays out of it.
A standard transaction puts your name on public records, MLS history, and county filings anyone can pull. I work through NDAs, entity structuring, and sealed processes specifically to prevent that. Privacy isn't a feature I offer — it's the standard I hold the entire transaction to.
The public market is the last resort.
Listed properties come with bidding competition, public price history, and a trail. Off-market means you negotiate privately with an owner who has agreed to terms before anything is signed or disclosed. That changes the dynamic — in your favour — on both price and terms.
Intelligence you can't get from a portal.
Public data tells you what sold. Private sale activity — what actually moved, at what price, under what terms — never appears on any platform. I know that market from the inside and I share what I know directly, so you make decisions based on what's real rather than what's published.
The Difference
A different kind of representation.
Most luxury real estate is handled by large teams working off shared systems. This practice works differently: one advisor, direct access, and privacy built into every part of the process.
Where I Work
Four coastal enclaves, each its own world
South Florida's most private addresses — where every acquisition and disposition is handled with the discretion the market demands.
The most concentrated stretch of branded luxury towers in the US. Porsche Design Tower, Ritz-Carlton Residences, Acqualina, Armani/Casa, Muse and St. Regis — all on the same two miles of Atlantic beachfront.
- Premier branded-tower market, SE Florida
- Porsche · Ritz-Carlton · Acqualina · Armani · Muse
- Penthouses to $49M+ · global clientele
About one square mile, fewer than 400 homes, and no condominiums allowed by law. The town owns the beach and it's for residents only. Single-family oceanfront in South Florida doesn't get more private than this.
- No condos or commercial buildings — by law
- Resident-only, town-owned beach
- Fewer than 400 homes across ~1 sq mile
A guard-gated village anchored by one of the best-performing luxury retail centres in the country. St. Regis, Ritz-Carlton and Oceana on the oceanfront, a small enclave of single-family homes behind them.
- Home to the legendary Bal Harbour Shops
- St. Regis · Ritz-Carlton · Oceana oceanfront
- Guard-gated single-family island enclave
Two small islands in Biscayne Bay, walkable to Bal Harbour Shops and the beach. Waterfront homes and newer boutique condominiums — La Baia, Kai, La Maré, Origin — at prices below the oceanfront towers around the corner.
- Walkable bay-island town beside Bal Harbour
- Boutique-condo renaissance: La Baia · Kai · Origin
- Waterfront homes to $25M+ · quiet luxury
“Everyone who touches your transaction signs an NDA before they know your name. That's the starting point, not the full picture.”
I won't tell you a real estate transaction can be made completely invisible. A neighbour sees the truck. Someone talks. There are things no NDA covers. What I can tell you is that I've thought carefully about every point where your name could surface in this process, and I've built around each of them. The NDA is one part of it. Entity structuring is another. How vendors are selected, how appointments are scheduled, how communication flows. It's the same question every time: where does exposure happen, and how do we get ahead of it. That's what this practice is built around.
Minimised Public Exposure
Where legally possible, transactions are structured through entities so your personal name does not appear on public property records.
NDA at Every Touchpoint
Attorneys, inspectors, stagers, contractors — everyone who touches your transaction signs an NDA before they know your name or the address.
No Announcements
I don't post closings. No press releases, no social media, nothing with your name or property attached to it. From my side, it stays private.
One Advisor
You speak to me directly. Not a team member or coordinator. Every call, every update, every decision goes through me personally.
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Contact Privately
A direct line
to Mike de Graaf
“Every message comes to me directly. I read it, I respond, and it doesn't go anywhere else. That's how it works from the first contact through to closing.”
Direct Line
Available upon private request
Private Email
m.degraaf@degraafestates.com
Location
Sunny Isles Beach, South Florida