I represent buyers in Portugal.
Not sellers.
Whether you are moving to Portugal or buying a house, a quinta or an apartment: due diligence, negotiation and the notarial deed, in your language and on your side. For German-speaking buyers who know exactly what they are looking for.
Raised between Germany and Portugal, more than ten years at the negotiating table. I accompany you personally, from the first call to the notarial deed.
Curated, not catalogued
I show few properties. But every one of them I have visited, checked and stand behind, otherwise it wouldn't be here.
On your side, not the seller's
I advise on the buyer's side, independent, without the seller's commission logic, with a vetted network of lawyers, notaries and builders.
At home in both worlds
Raised German-speaking, rooted in Portugal: I translate more than just language.
I work for buyers, not for sellers.
First conversation
15 minutes, no obligation: goals, budget, region and an honest assessment of what's realistic.
Search & curation
Access to the entire market, including properties never listed publicly. You only see what I have vetted.
Viewing & due diligence
Accompanied viewings, due diligence with lawyers and surveyors, explained in your language, no surprises.
Purchase & arrival
Negotiation, notary, renovation, relocation, one point of contact until the keys, and beyond.
A property I look after
for its owners.
This quinta was offered as a house with a view. After examination it was clear: it is a complete wine estate, adega, granite lagar, 3.4 hectares of DOC vineyard with the Port wine benefício. Here I exceptionally represent the selling side; the agency is Lagos Homes. Even so, the dossier states what argues against buying: the Douro sales crisis, energy class F, seven open points. By that you can judge how I work.
Twelve pages, in exchange for your e-mail address. No weekly newsletter.
Funding and equity analysis.
Anyone buying in the Douro or in Trás-os-Montes is almost always buying within a Território de Baixa Densidade. That classification is not folklore but a legal status: it determines the uplift rates in the Portugal 2030 and Turismo de Portugal programmes and with them the question of how much of your own capital a renovation will actually tie up.
In the buyer's check I therefore record three things in writing: whether the property lies in a supported territory, which form of use would be eligible at all, and in what order purchase, company formation and application would have to stand. I do not file the applications myself, for that I work with specialised funding consultants in Portugal. Nobody can promise you an approval, myself included. But the sequence can be got right, and that decides more than any rate.
Further projects I accompany.
Not inventory but references: two undertakings I accompany, or have accompanied, for clients.
From first guide to on the ground.
The guide
Buying & renovating in Portugal, explained for German-speaking buyers: process, costs, taxes, typical pitfalls. Compact, honest, free.
The first call
15 minutes, no obligation: we sharpen your search profile, sanity-check budget and timing and afterwards you'll know whether and how to proceed.
The Discovery Day
A day at your side in Portugal: selected viewings, an honest on-site assessment, a strategy session. Limited dates, after a first call.
What clients say
[Reference to follow: client quote on buying a quinta in the Douro.]
[Name · City][Reference to follow: client quote on search, review and support.]
[Name · City]“You don't buy an estate in Portugal from a catalogue. You buy it from someone you trust.”Oliver Pires · Porto
