About

What we are trying to do differently

Most Mediterranean property portals will not tell you what a purchase actually costs. The asking price is rarely what you pay: transfer taxes, notary fees and foreign-buyer permits can add anything from about 1% to more than 15%, which side of the transaction owes them varies by country, and in Italy and Greece the buyer pays the agent as well.

So we publish cost guides for 18 markets. Every figure is traced to a published source and carries the date it was checked. Where we have not been able to verify a market properly, we say so and show no calculator rather than guessing — a wrong number here is worse than no number.

Residency and citizenship, kept apart

A property purchase can lead to a residence permit in Greece, Malta and Cyprus, and to citizenship in Turkey and Egypt, from US$300,000. The two are often confused, and the difference is the whole point: a residence permit lets you live in a country, and does not make you its national.

The residency and citizenship guide keeps them apart and sets out each programme's minimum, holding period and fees from its published rules.

How we make money

Stated plainly, because a portal's incentives determine what you are shown:

• Subscriptions from agents and owners who list with us. See pricing.
• Front-page placement, sold by the month per listing. See advertise.

We take no commission on any sale, and we are not paid by buyers. Anything appearing because someone paid for it is labelled as promoted wherever it appears.

The verified badge is not part of any of that. It is granted by us after checking an agent is who they say they are, and cannot be bought at any price — a badge you can purchase tells a buyer nothing. Free accounts pay $26 for the review itself, refunded in full if the application is not approved.

How listings are ordered

Paid plans and paid placement raise a listing's position, and those listings carry a promoted label. Front-page slots are deliberately capped below the number a row holds, so every row keeps at least one listing that wasn't bought — a fully sold row is an ad board, which costs exactly the trust advertisers are paying to reach.

The rows that show other markets work the same way. Under a listing, and when a market has few listings of its own, we show listings elsewhere that match it: the same sale or rental, a similar price, and the same search. Only listings that match are shown; among those, paid plans come first, with the same promoted label.

Moderation

Anyone can report a listing without an account, and reports are reviewed by hand rather than acted on automatically by volume. What we remove and what happens next is set out in the listing rules.

Privacy

There is no third-party analytics, advertising or session-recording on this site, we do not store IP addresses, and listing view counts are aggregate totals that do not record who viewed anything. The privacy policy sets out the detail.