Helping international buyers navigate the Spanish property market
Buying property in Spain is different.You don't have to navigate it alone.
How it works
Buying property abroad takes preparation before it takes searching.
Start with the full picture, not a property
Before you look at a single listing, get a clear map of what buying in Spain means for your specific situation: taxes, total purchase costs, legal steps, and financing options. Use the location tool to find where in Spain matches your criteria (climate, community, budget, lifestyle) before you start searching. Most buyers skip this and get caught out later.
Analyse properties on real numbers
When you find something worth considering, submit it to the platform and get a full financial breakdown: asking price, taxes, purchase costs, ongoing costs, and financing scenarios. Comparing several options? You get side-by-side comparables. You make decisions on complete information, not asking prices and instinct.
Connect with the right professionals when you need them
Access vetted independent professionals through the platform: property shoppers, legal, mortgage brokers and others. Book calls, track progress, and keep all your documents, notes, and next steps in one place. You are not piecing this together across separate conversations.
Common mistakes
What buyers often underestimate in Spain
A few common mistakes can make the process slower, more expensive or more stressful than expected.
Assuming Spain works like your country
The legal process, timelines and responsibilities work differently in Spain. Small assumptions about what signing something means, who checks what, or what is normal can have a big impact.
Underestimating the real purchase costs
Taxes, notary, registry, legal fees and financing costs typically add 10–15% on top of the asking price. Most buyers don't model this until it's too late to adjust their budget.
Not checking what you're actually buying
Properties can carry hidden debts, planning irregularities, or discrepancies between what's built and what's registered. A property that looks clean isn't always clean. Legal due diligence on the property itself, not just the transaction process, is non-negotiable.
Relying only on the selling side
Estate agents and developers work for the seller. Moving forward without independent support means navigating with limited information and no one on your side.
Meet Cristina
Built on lived experience, not theory.
Cristina built Iberova because she has been exactly where you are. She lived and worked in Germany without speaking the language, and now she lives in the UK. When you are a foreigner, the rules everyone else takes for granted are not your rules. Every assumption you carry from home can turn out to be wrong, and in a legal or financial context, wrong assumptions are expensive. She learned that planning and building the right knowledge before you act is the only thing that protects you.
Iberova started with a conversation. A property professional based in the UK was planning to move to Valencia. Cristina grew up there, knew the system, and had lived every part of what that move involves: from understanding your tax position on both sides of the border to finding the right professionals before you commit to anything. That conversation made her realise that the knowledge she had spent years accumulating was exactly what others were navigating alone, without the right support.
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