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Practical, evidence-led guidance for people buying property — what to check, what to request and how to work out what a property is really worth.
Buying Guides
One lets you inspect everything and negotiate; the other lets you buy a warranty and a current energy standard. Neither is safer — the due diligence is simply different.
Renovation
The kitchen is the visible part. Waterproofing, retaining walls, drainage and an electrical installation from 1991 are where renovation budgets actually go.
Buying Guides
The purchase price is the first line of the budget, not the budget. Here is every other line, with two worked examples and the total-cost framework that should drive your offer.
Market
Marbella's golf valley is not one market. Two villas five minutes apart can differ by hundreds of thousands of euros — and often for reasons that never appear in the listing.
Buying Guides
From defining your budget to completing due diligence, this is the full sequence — including the Marbella-specific problems that surface again and again in older villas.
Market
Prices are still rising, supply is tight and the gap between asking price and achievable price varies street by street. What the 2026 data shows — and what it cannot tell you about one property.
BuyerWingman Guides
Every document in a property pack can be reasonable on its own. The intelligence is in the comparison — and in never presenting an assumption as a fact.
Renovation
Purchase price is not total property cost. Here is every line that belongs in the model, how to build low, expected and high ranges, and why contingency is not optional.
Valuation
An asking price is a hope. Market value is an estimate. As-is value reflects condition. Risk-adjusted value is what a prudent buyer pays. Four numbers, four methods.
Documents
Receiving a document is not the same as verifying a property. Here is what to request, why each item matters, and how the documents check one another.
Due Diligence
One property, four different area figures — and none of them necessarily dishonest. Here is how measurement conventions differ, and what you are actually paying for.
Property Risks
A red flag rarely means walk away. It means understand it, quantify it, verify it and price it into the deal. Here are the twelve worth checking before you commit.