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For developers, agencies and agents

We bring you buyers who are ready.
You pay us when they buy.

We advertise in the United Kingdom and the United States at our own cost, qualify every enquiry on a call before it reaches anyone, and hand you a buyer whose budget, funding, timing and brief are already confirmed. The buyer pays us nothing. Nor do you, until a sale completes.

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What we do, and what we don’t

We do

  • Advertise and build demand at our own cost, in our own name.
  • Speak to every enquiry on the telephone before anyone is introduced.
  • Confirm budget, how they are funding it, when they want to move and what they actually want.
  • Hand the buyer to your team with the brief, and then stay out of the way.
  • Keep in touch with the ones who are not ready yet, for as long as it takes.

We don’t

  • Sell property, or hold ourselves out as an estate agent in your country.
  • Negotiate, or advise a buyer on price.
  • Act for the buyer or the seller in the transaction.
  • Hold client money at any point.
  • Charge the buyer a fee, ever.

What we ask for

Five things. None of them costs you anything unless a buyer we send you actually buys.

1

A share of your commission

On any sale to a buyer we introduce, agreed in writing before we send you the first one. We will not introduce a buyer on a handshake — not because we distrust you, but because the person who gets hurt when it goes wrong is the buyer who ends up being passed around.

2

Paid when you are paid

Where the developer pays you at the private contract and deposit, we invoice then. Where they pay on completion, we invoice on completion. We are not asking you to pay us out of your own pocket before you are in funds.

3

Twelve months of protection

A buyer we register stays ours for twelve months, and the fee is due whether the purchase is made by that buyer or by their company, spouse, partner or family. Buyers abroad take months to decide, and a good many of them buy in a structure. Three months protects nobody.

4

Registration by email

We advertise from the United Kingdom and qualify by telephone. We do not fly out with buyers, so we cannot be standing in your sales office to register one, and we cannot attend a notary. Registration is an email carrying the buyer’s name, email address and telephone number, which you acknowledge in writing within two working days.

This is the one that decides whether we can work together at all. If your commission depends on us being physically present, then no buyer we send you is ever registered and no fee can ever arise — and we would both rather find that out in the first email than after the first sale.

5

Photographs and video we can use

A licence to use your photographs, video, plans and descriptions in our own advertising and social media, without your branding. It is what our advertising is made of, and it is how buyers arrive already interested in the kind of property you sell.

Where we work

Thailand and Spain today, with Portugal and Romania in progress, and we will look at anywhere an introducer can lawfully be paid. If you are somewhere we have not reached yet and you can register a client by email, that is usually reason enough to talk.

Who you would be dealing with

James Allwinton and Rory Phillips. Rory takes every qualifying call himself, so the person who speaks to your buyer is the same person you speak to. We have been running since July 2026, every enquiry is qualified on a call before it reaches a partner, and one of our buyers has a reservation paid and is at contract stage.

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Talk to us

Fifteen minutes is usually enough to know whether there is anything here. Book a time with Rory, or write to either of us.

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