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RÉGIE · GENÈVE
Why 373?
Because a managing agent should be what a certain stone in the bay of Geneva is: a fixed point, in a market that never stops moving.
↓ ScrollAn engineer was looking for a point that would not move.
He found it in the bay.
In 1820, the Geneva engineer Guillaume-Henri Dufour was looking for a fixed reference. Two granite blocks break the surface of the bay, torn from the Mont Blanc massif and carried here by the Rhône glacier. On the one farther from the shore he set a bronze plate: the Pierre du Niton.
Two stones. Only one carries the marker.
The Pierre Dyolin and the Pierre du Niton.
They are still there, opposite the Jardin anglais. The one closer to the quay is the Pierre Dyolin. The second, a little further out, carries the bronze bolt. Surveyors call it RPN: the Pierre du Niton reference.
373.6m
The legal horizon of Switzerland.
Since 1902.
Since 1902 the marker has stood at 373.6 m above sea level. It is the horizon of the Swiss height system: every altitude in the country, every spot height, every contour line, every building plan is measured from this stone. From Lake Maggiore, the lowest point in Switzerland at 193 m, to the Dufourspitze, its highest summit at 4,634 m, every metre of the country refers back to this small granite block in the Geneva harbour. A nod from history: the summit bears the name of General Dufour, the very man who had the Pierre du Niton set in place.
A passion for real estate.
Director of Régie 373.
Gaël Constantin has always worked in real estate, and has made it his passion. In 2015 he co-founded Homenhancement SA in Geneva, a specialist in furnished medium-term rentals. Ten years on, the company manages some 850 homes across Switzerland, from the Octagon residence in Geneva to the Tilia tower in Lausanne. With Régie 373, he returns to the heart of the trade: managing a property over the long term, with the same care for the owner as for the tenant.
Everything measured in Switzerland starts from a stone in Geneva.