Adam Markle
5/5
I am thrilled to be writing about my experience with Agnes. Hiring her was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I had been wanting to move to Spain since the first time I visited in 2010. I started getting serious about looking to buy a flat about 4 years ago but kept hitting roadblocks. I was referred to Agnes by a man who has an Instagram and YouTube channel promoting Spain. I checked out her website and was impressed. After emailing her, she set up a zoom interview, where she went over the process and costs. I decided to hire her (paying a deposit) and we then had a 2nd zoom meeting where we went into a very detailed description of the neighborhoods in Madrid I wanted to move to and the “must haves” in a flat and the “preferences but not required” and the things I definitely “didn’t want”.
Agnes also works with her husband, Dani. Agnes searches thoroughly through listings via Idealista as well as having other venues to find properties. I started with Agnes probably mid-October. Agnes and Dani went to approximately 20 to 25 properties. They videotaped and made comments of each place. They also sent a detailed description for me to review. I planned to be in Madrid the end of Nov/beginning of Dec to visit as many places as I could. We narrowed it down to about 15 properties for the 10 days I was there. I found about 3 I liked, made an offer on one that I knew in advance was already taken but the owner was still thinking about taking other offers. I didn’t get it, but I was actually happy about it, because even though I had made an offer I was having second thoughts because I really liked another one a bit better because it had a rooftop terrace. This flat was one that wasn’t even on my radar actually. Agnes had a feeling it would be a good property to see and although I wasn’t super convinced from the photos, I had agreed to have her go to it. After seeing the video, I had put it on my maybe list as a back up if I ran out of properties I had wanted to see while I was visiting Spain. Toward the end of the week Agnes reminded me of it (although I had actually had my mind set on a different property), so I decided to go ahead and see it toward the end of my time there. Well, I actually just loved it after seeing it in person. After the offer was denied on the other place, I told Agnes I was actually happy and let’s make an offer on the one I got. She was amazing with her negotiation skills, and I feel like I got a great deal! She was very detailed and thorough with me with the numbers because I was at my high limit for my budget for the deposit.
I highly recommend Agnes. She was very informative, and always answered any questions I had. She is very detailed oriented and seems to remember everything I told her. She referred me to an amazing broker. I had spoken to some other brokers and always got the “it’s very hard for banks in Spain to lend to people in the US, I don’t think we can help you”. The broker Agnes referred me to was amazing. Included with the cost of hiring Agnes, was having an architect inspect my place and the lawyers reviewing all the paperwork. Agnes went with me to open up my bank account (as I’m not fluent in Spanish) when I was in Madrid, she went with me to the notary for the closing and her husband Dani got all the utilities changed to my name after purchasing the flat. The entire process was super smooth. I ended up closing on my flat mid-January (the entire process took about 3 months from interviewing Agnes to closing). The only stress I had was in my own thoughts that a curve ball would come my way and throw the process off, and I wouldn’t buy a flat. Agnes and Dani helped my biggest dream come true and I will always appreciate them. If anyone has questions or concerns about hiring Agnes, I told them they could give out my number and speak with me. I can't say enough great things about Agnes!!