Reshad, who runs Find Marbella, a buyer-side property finder on the Costa del Sol

About Find Marbella

My name is Reshad. I run Find Marbella with my partner, and between us we have ten years in this market.

I lived in Denmark for over twenty years before I lived in Spain. My partner comes from an international background too. Between us we work in Danish, English, Spanish, Farsi and Dutch, and our clients come from everywhere from Spain to the United Arab Emirates.

That mix is not a marketing line. It is the reason this company exists.

Why we started this

Buying property in a country that is not your own is not difficult because the market is complicated. It is difficult because you are making a decision worth more than most people earn in a decade, in a language you do not fully control, with people whose incentives you cannot read.

You sit across from an agent. You understand most of what is said. You do not know whether the part you did not understand mattered.

We have both been on that side of the table. That is why we built a service that works for the buyer instead of the seller, and why we tell people what a property's problems are as readily as what its selling points are.

What ten years actually gives you

Not a database. Relationships.

We work with around twenty estate agencies across the Costa del Sol, and with a smaller group of them we have a formal arrangement that means we hear about homes before they are advertised. That is built one conversation at a time, and it does not transfer from a website.

It also means we know which agencies answer the phone in August, which developers deliver on time, and which listings have been on the market for two years under three different agents. That is the part of local knowledge that does not appear in a listing.

How we work

We are paid by the estate agency when a purchase completes. Never by you. Nothing is added to the price you pay for a property.

That has one consequence worth stating plainly: we have no reason to push you towards a more expensive home, and no reason to push you towards a home at all if what you are describing does not exist at your budget. We will tell you when that is the case, because a buyer who trusts us and comes back in a year is worth more to us than a bad match today.

We are not an estate agency. We do not own listings and we do not represent sellers.

The languages we work in

Danish, English, Spanish, Farsi and Dutch.

For most of our clients this is the single most practical thing about us. Notary appointments, agency negotiations and the small print of a reservation contract all go better when someone in the room speaks your language and the seller's.

Get in touch

Send a brief and you hear back within 24 hours. Or email hello@findmarbella.com if you would rather just ask a question first.

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