How do I work?
Private Residence Antigua Guatemala, Central America.
Designing the reform.
The same eye, now on what it becomes.
Concept, drawings, the details nobody specifies, and a budget that resembles what it will cost.
Twenty-five years designing for sun and heat. Same problem here as there, and the one most reforms on this coast get wrong.
A local registered architect signs the permit and directs the works. I hold the design, and your side of it.
Then I stay on site. Reading what is being done against what was drawn, and saying so in writing before it is tiled over.
Most of what goes wrong in a reform is visible for a week and invisible forever after.
Finding and buying.
You know what you want. You do not know this coast.
I walk the properties before you do and tell you what I think of each one (including the ones I would not buy).
Standing in a room I can tell you what the house actually is, what it would cost to change, and whether the thing you are picturing fits inside that envelope. Before the offer. Not after the survey.
Then through to the notary.
How I am paid, plainly.
Sometimes a commission on a transaction. Sometimes a fee for the work. Both are ordinary and both are fine.
The part that matters: you know which one it is, and which side it comes from, from the first conversation. It does not change halfway through. And I never take a commission from both sides of the same deal.
Buyer engagements begin with a modest engagement fee, credited against RGNL’s commission if a purchase completes. Independent assessments are fixed-fee and paid by the buyer.
If you build.
I also work with small developers.
An outside read on what a project is really selling. Design review before the drawings harden. Where the plan loses money and where it leaves value on the table.
And something less usual: my wife and I have run a restaurant out of our house for five years. We can place your prospects around a table inside the property, which sells a building in a way an empty viewing never has.
Where I am most useful.
Decisions where an oversight stops being annoying and starts being quite expensive.
Property in Dénia / Marina Alta / Costa Blanca Norte. Valencia by exception