Real Estate
This Real Estate Agent Is the Castle Expert
Are you a member of the global super-rich on the hunt for a house? Christoph von Schenck has just the palace, fortress, or château for you.
Kasteel van Olsene is surrounded by a moat and located just over 43 miles west of Brussels, Belgium.
Courtesy of Engel & Völkers Gent-Centrum
Two world wars, revolutions in Germany and Russia, and inheritance taxes have managed to all but put an end to Europe’s once-thriving ruling class, but the continent’s palatial homes, at least, remain.
Enter Christoph von Schenck, a German aristocrat who acts as a conduit between those houses and aspirational buyers. The “castles expert” for the real estate agency Engel & Völkers AG, von Schenck has made it his life’s work to appraise and sell these massive, often crumbling structures.