Hello, I am Cristina.

I grew up in Valencia and lived in Madrid for some years. I have also lived and worked in Germany, where I did not speak a word of the language, and in the UK, where I currently live. I know exactly what it feels like to navigate a completely foreign legal and bureaucratic system as an outsider, not fully understanding what is being said, not knowing which questions to ask, and not being certain who is acting in your interest. Not in theory, but in practice.

Property has been part of my family for a long time. My great-grandfather was an entrepreneur in the cinema industry in Valencia. He opened the Coliseum in 1926, at the time one of the largest cinemas in Spain, and alongside that work accumulated buildings and properties across the city that the family holds to this day. He never sold. That is the tradition I grew up around: property as something you acquire carefully and hold, not something you trade.

I trained as an industrial engineer in Spain, specialising in how organisations design and run their processes. That training led me into twenty years of consulting for international companies, implementing the digital systems that run their business operations: work that demands you get the structure right before you start, that every decision is traceable, and that a missing step caught early costs far less than one discovered late. That discipline is what I now bring to property buying in Spain.

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That background shaped how I approached my own investment decisions. I have bought and sold property in Spain, worked through the due diligence, and learned to read the moments when a deal should not proceed. I also invested in formal property education in both the UK and Spain, covering acquisition strategy, transaction processes and auction mechanics, because I wanted to understand the full picture, not just the parts I had already lived.

I currently own properties in Spain while living in the United Kingdom, which means the relationship with the Spanish tax authority is ongoing: non-resident returns filed periodically, the complexity of holding assets across two countries. I have dealt with double taxation agreements between countries personally. Most people buying in Spain do not think about any of this until they are already committed. The timing matters: understanding your tax position before you commit, not after, can prevent expensive mistakes. I ran a limited company in Spain and currently hold one in the United Kingdom, so whether you are considering buying in your own name or through a company structure, I have been in both positions and understand what each involves.

Iberova started with a conversation. A property professional I met in the UK was planning to move to Valencia and needed to understand what that move would mean financially and legally. I had lived every part of it. In that conversation I realised that what I had spent years accumulating was exactly what others were navigating alone, without the right support. Iberova is what followed.