The conflict most buyers don’t see
Who is your agent actually working for?
Most of the agents who show you properties in Spain are paid by the seller. Legally and financially, their job is to get the seller the highest price possible. That doesn’t make them dishonest — it’s simply how the system is built. But it does mean that, however friendly the viewing feels, they are not on your side of the table.
When you engage us as your buyer’s agent, that changes completely. Our fee is paid by you, the buyer — because you are the one commissioning the work: sourcing the right property, negotiating the price, verifying its legal status, and carrying the process through to the signed deed. There is no seller paying us in the background, and no split loyalty.
In practice, this arrangement usually saves buyers considerably more than our fee costs. Most international buyers don’t know this market, its pricing patterns, or its local quirks — and that knowledge gap is exactly where money gets lost, whether through overpaying, missing a legal red flag, or simply not knowing what a fair price looks like in a specific street or village. Our job is to close that gap on your behalf.
What we actually do
Six things you get that a seller’s agent will never offer
We look beyond public portals for properties that genuinely match your brief, including off-market opportunities we already know about.
We push for the lowest fair price on your behalf, using our knowledge of local comparables — the opposite of what a seller’s agent is incentivised to do.
Land registry status, urban planning classification, outstanding charges or debts, and cadastral situation — checked before you commit to anything.
A clear breakdown of ITP transfer tax, notary fees, registry costs, and any other charges — before you sign, not after.
We accompany you through signing, in English or French, so nothing gets lost in translation at the most important moment.
A local contact who already knows your file — for anything that comes up once you own the property.
Why this matters, concretely
Where the savings actually come from
Negotiation is the clearest example. Asking prices in this region are often set with room to move, and knowing how much room — street by street, town by town — is exactly the kind of local knowledge an outside buyer can’t have. A few thousand euros saved on the purchase price alone typically covers our fee several times over.
Legal verification is the less visible one, but often the more important one. We regularly find issues before signing that would have been expensive or difficult to resolve afterwards — an unregistered extension, a boundary that doesn’t match the cadastral plan, an outstanding charge on the property. Catching these before you commit isn’t a bonus service; it’s the whole point of having someone on your side of the transaction.
Put simply: you pay us, so we work only for you. Given how unfamiliar this market and its particularities can be from abroad, that arrangement tends to pay for itself.
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