Partners
We name four organisations, and before any of them, the rule they sit under: we take no referral fee and no other reward for recommending anybody, and you are free to bring your own lawyer, your own mortgage broker or your own inspector at any point. A recommendation here means we work with these people ourselves, nothing more and nothing less.
The rule that applies to all of them
Referral fees are ordinary in this industry and they are not always disclosed. That is the reason this page opens with the rule rather than with the names: a partner list is only worth reading once you know what the referrer gets out of it.Some things we handle directly, for others we have specialists we trust. When a lawyer, an architect or a tax adviser is needed, we put you in touch with somebody we work with ourselves. We stay your main contact and make sure everything joins up.
- No referral fee, from anybodyWe take no commission and no other reward from the law firm, and the same applies to the other specialists we introduce you to. If that ever changed, this page would say so before you met them.
- You can always bring your ownYour own lawyer, your own mortgage broker, your own inspector. The recommendation is a default, not a condition of working with us.
- No exclusivity in either directionNone of these organisations works only with us and we are not obliged to use only them. Nobody has bought a place on this list.
- A recommendation is not a guaranteeIt means we work with these people ourselves and have had good experiences. It does not make us responsible for their professional work, and it does not remove your right to check them.
Who we name
Two of the four are firms you would deal with directly during a purchase. The other two are the professional networks through which the coast shares its listings, which is how we can search across the whole market rather than our own books.
| Partner | What they do | How we work with them |
|---|---|---|
| Malaga Solicitors | An independent Spanish law firm operating on the Costa del Sol. Checks ownership, charges, debts, building legality and the terms of the purchase, obtains the NIE and prepares the transfer. | Our standard recommendation for the legal due diligence. The lawyer represents you, not Arevont and not the seller, and you deal with a local lawyer who knows the local authorities and the land registry. We take no commission for the referral, and you can choose your own lawyer at any time. |
| Fluent Finance Abroad | A mortgage broker specialising in lending to non-residents. Assesses your situation and puts concrete financing options in front of you. | Only relevant if you are financing the purchase with a mortgage. You can use your own mortgage broker instead. |
| Resale properties Online | A professional network and MLS covering both resale properties and new builds. | One of the two networks local agencies use to share listings between themselves. It is part of how we see the offer rather than a firm you would ever deal with. |
| Inmobalia | A Costa del Sol MLS with listings shared between local agencies and updated information on developer projects. | The second of the two networks. Alongside direct contact with developers and individual agencies, it is why a property does not have to be on our own website for us to work on it. |
Do I have to use Malaga Solicitors?No. They are our standard recommendation and you are free to bring your own lawyer at any point, including one from your home country working with a Spanish colleague. What we would push back on is completing without an independent lawyer at all, or using one introduced by the seller side.
What a recommendation from us means, and what it does not
The word "partner" is doing a lot of unpaid work across this industry, so it is worth being exact about which claims are being made on this page and which are not.
What this meansWhat this does not mean
- We work with them ourselves
- It does not mean they are certified, endorsed or supervised by us. They are independent professionals and firms, responsible for their own work.
- We coordinate them for you
- It does not mean we perform their work. We are not lawyers, tax advisers, valuers or architects, and we do not carry the professional liability that goes with those roles.
- We are not paid to send you there
- It does not mean the service itself is free. The law firm charges you its own fee, and the mortgage broker is paid in the way brokers are paid.
- The lawyer is independent of us
- It does not mean the lawyer is neutral. They represent you, which is the whole point, and their advice may well be to walk away from a purchase we introduced you to.
The rest of the network is not named here
Beyond the four above we work with technical inspectors, architects, snagging specialists, an interior designer, tradesmen, insurance and utility contacts and a tax adviser. None of them is named on this page: several of them are individuals rather than firms, and they should not have their names on a website they do not control. Each one is named to you personally the moment they enter your purchase.Management, cleaning and short-term rental are not partners at all. We do those ourselves rather than subcontracting them, which is why they are absent from this page and present on the services pages.And a warning that applies to any list like this one, including ours. A recommendation is worth checking. Look the firm up, ask them directly what they charge, and ask them whether they pay anybody for the introduction. If the answer we have given you here and the answer they give you are different, we want to know.
Frequently asked questions
- Do you get paid for these recommendations?
- No. Not from the law firm and not from the others. Our fee comes out of the commission the seller has already agreed with their own agency, and nothing else reaches us from anywhere in the transaction.
- What does the lawyer cost?
- A Spanish firm typically charges around one per cent of the purchase price including VAT for a purchase, and you pay them directly. Ask them to confirm the figure for your transaction before you instruct them.
- Can I use your own lawyer from home instead?
- You can, and some clients do, usually with a Spanish colleague handling the parts that require local practice. What matters is that whoever it is is independent of the seller side and knows the Spanish registry and the local authorities.
- Why do you name the two MLS networks at all?
- Because "we search the whole market" is a claim, and naming the mechanism turns it into something a sceptical reader can go and check. The networks are how agencies on this coast share listings, which is also why the same property appears at several of them at the same price.
