We quote net, never gross
Gross yield is the number before reality. We model service charges, management, vacancy, maintenance and tax before we put a figure in front of you, because the only honest yield is the one that reaches your account. If a developer’s headline “6%” becomes 4% once the property is run and taxed properly, you’ll hear 4% from us — with the workings.
We name the risks out loud
Every market has them: demand concentration, title-deed timing, currency, liquidity, the gap between a brochure and a lease. We would rather tell you the uncomfortable thing early than have you discover it at completion. Candour isn’t a tone we adopt; it’s the service itself — and, we’ve found, the thing that earns the trust of serious people.
We treat developer data as a claim, not a fact
Appreciation figures, rental projections and comparables that come from a developer are marketing until they’re checked. We cross-reference them against independent sources — resale data, third-party indices, comparable schemes — and we keep the line between a forecast and a fact firmly in front of you. A developer’s optimism is not evidence.
We settle structure before we introduce you
How you own a property — in your own name or through a company, in which jurisdiction, and what that means for your tax and reporting — is decided before you are ever put in front of a developer, not after. It protects your position, and it means any introduction happens on your terms, with your interests already organised.
We present options, and we don’t steer
Where there is a genuine choice — Cyprus or the UK, this scheme or that one, buy now or wait — we lay the options side by side with their trade-offs and let you make the call. We are not here to walk you toward the option that happens to suit us. Sometimes the honest recommendation is to do nothing yet, and we’ll say so.
We put it in writing
Verbal assurances are worth what they’re written on. Anything that matters — a fee arrangement, a developer’s commitment, a key term — we get in writing, for your protection as much as ours. It’s a discipline that has saved our clients real money, and it’s not negotiable.
How we’re paid — the honest part
It’s the fair question to ask an advisor who’ll tell you to walk away from a deal: how do they make their money? We’re typically compensated through the transaction when one completes — but our advice is not contingent on it. That is the entire point of the model. The value we offer is judgment, and judgment is only worth anything if it’s honest. When a purchase doesn’t serve you, saying so costs us a fee and earns us a client for years. We think that’s the better trade — and if you’re the kind of buyer who values it, we’re probably a good fit.