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Your interests.
Your capital.
Your advisor.
The Atelier is ELP's acquisition service for international buyers in Madrid's prime market. One advisor. One mandate. One side only: yours.
If you are buying in Madrid without independent representation, you are the only person in the room without one.
If that person is you, we are ready when you are.
Has an agent working to close at the highest price possible.
Has a legal team. Every negotiation has someone on the other side.
Exists for the person on the other side of that table. International buyers, executives, families, already living in Madrid or arriving soon, who have decided that a transaction of this size deserves someone whose only job is to protect them.
Madrid's real estate market is sophisticated, opaque, and structured to favour the seller. Not you.
Madrid's market is opaque. There is no centralised record of what properties actually close at. Only asking prices, repeated across multiple agencies at different figures.
The purchase process: arras, ITP, notary, registro. It has no direct equivalent in most buyers' home countries. Every forum gives different, unverified numbers.
The arras contract binds you before you fully understand what you are signing. The notary reads in Spanish, at speed. Silence is often used as a tool.
"There is a different way to buy in Madrid. One where expertise and incentives are aligned with you from the start."
From the first call to the notary table, and beyond.
Free Strategy Call
30 minutes. We assess your situation, timeline, and priorities. No obligation.
Buyer Intelligence Session Optional
Before committing to a full mandate, some buyers want a clear picture first. A private 60-minute consultation, 200€ IVA included, fully credited to your final fee. We analyse your specific situation: the properties you have been tracking, price benchmarking for your target zones, and a frank assessment of whether now is the right moment to move. You leave with a defined strategy. No obligation to proceed.
Search & Curation
We activate both portal and off-market channels. Every property is pre-screened against your criteria: neighbourhood, building quality, legal status, and price integrity. You only see what genuinely qualifies.
Due Diligence & Negotiation
Technical, legal, and environmental review of every shortlisted property. Our specialist real estate lawyer reviews the arras contract, the private purchase contract, and the final notarial deed, in your language, before you sign anything. We negotiate from a position of independent market data. The goal is not to close fast. It is to close right.
Closing & Beyond
We coordinate the full closing process: notary appointment, final document review, and payment structure. Post-signing, we assist with the official registration of the property in your name and the liquidation of applicable taxes, so that the acquisition is legally complete in every sense. We remain available after completion for any post-purchase need.
"Elena found us a property in Salamanca that wasn't listed anywhere. She negotiated €85,000 off the asking price. We would never have done this without her."
Read our Google ReviewsHow We Get Paid
01. Administration Fee
Paid at mandate signing. Fully deducted from the final commission at closing. It covers:
- Initial consultation and acquisition strategy tailored to your situation
- Activation of both portal and off-market channels. Every property pre-screened against your criteria: neighbourhood, building quality, legal status, and price integrity
- Coordination and accompanied viewings of the properties you select. No limit on visits
- Full due diligence: technical, legal, and environmental review of every shortlisted property
- Legal review of the arras contract, private purchase contract, and final notarial deed in your language, before you sign anything. Negotiation from a position of independent market data
- A minimum of 2 months of dedicated work, often 3 or more. No limits, no shortcuts
02. Success Fee
Our commission is success-based and structured in two payments:
- 50% at the signing of the arras contract. 50% at the final notarial deed. If there is no arras contract, 100% is paid at the final notarial deed
- The fee scales with the purchase price. We discuss the exact structure during your Strategy Call
- We are paid only if we close. If we do not find the right property, there is no success fee
- The mandate is drafted in two languages and signed before any search begins. Everything agreed in writing from day one
Independent by structure. Aligned by contract. Committed by choice.
Works exclusively for buyers
No conflict of interest, by contract. Your budget is protected from day one, not from the moment you finally ask.
Access to closed transaction data
Real price benchmarking, not asking prices. You make offers with evidence, not hope.
Every legal step in your language
You never walk into a notary office signing something you have not fully understood.
Off-market network in Madrid prime
Properties before they reach any portal. You compete less and negotiate from a position of information.
Trilingual ES · EN · RU
No nuance lost. No clause misread. No cultural misalignment in a high-stakes conversation.
Direct access to Elena
Every mandate personally led, not delegated. Same expert from first call to notary table.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on your situation. The fastest acquisitions, without mortgage financing, can close in as little as one week from mandate signing. Without mortgage, the typical timeline is one month. With the full process: search, selection, due diligence, negotiation, and notary, the usual timeframe is 3 to 4 months. We work at your pace, not ours.
Absolutely. Your priorities can evolve, and often do. We adapt the search as your understanding of the market deepens. Adding a new neighbourhood, removing one that no longer fits, or refining your criteria mid-search is part of the process, not an exception to it.
No. We do not cap the number of properties we source or visits we arrange. Our filter is quality, not quantity. You only see what genuinely qualifies, but there is no ceiling on how many options we explore to find the right one.
Most clients begin the process remotely. We conduct the full search, shortlisting, and due diligence phase without requiring your physical presence. You travel when it is strategically worth your time, typically for 2 to 3 shortlisted property visits and the notary signing. Ask us about The Atelier at Distance, our service for buyers who complete the acquisition without travelling to Madrid.
No. The Atelier works exclusively for buyers and tenants. We maintain no listing inventory and have no commercial relationship with sellers. Our mandate is signed with the buyer before any search begins.
At the start of every engagement, we sign a formal buyer's mandate, a written agreement that establishes our exclusive commitment to you. At signing, an administration fee of €4,000 (IVA included) is paid. This amount is fully deducted from the final commission at closing. It is not an extra cost. It formalises the relationship and confirms mutual commitment.
Every week you wait, someone else is buying the property you haven't seen yet.
Madrid prime prices rose 35% over the last two years.
A private, no-obligation call. Real market data and a clear answer.
- The property you've been watching for three weeks. Is it gone, or is there room to negotiate?
- The asking price. Is it fair, inflated, or a signal that something is wrong with the building?
- Your timeline. Should you move now — or wait for the right one?