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Cascais & Sintra, Portugal

Complicated Process
Made Simple.

I represent international buyers in Cascais and Sintra, from your first questions about Portugal to long after you hold the keys.

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Golden evening light over the beach and bay at Cascais
Where I start

The town comes first

Marina Wanner, seated, in a black blazer
Marina WannerPortuguese-American Real Estate Consultant

You are choosing a town before you choose a house. Where you buy bread, how long the school run takes. Tell me how you want a Tuesday to look and I will bring you the four houses that fit it.

I hold a US real estate licence and a Portuguese passport, and I work in two towns. When your lawyer sends a contract in Portuguese at eleven at night, you have someone to call.

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Where everything is

Your Tour Guide to Peace

Every buyer asks the same things in the first week. Where are the schools, how far is the sea, and what is actually for sale.

Show on the map

Pins sit on the street, except where the seller has asked for the address to stay private: those show the neighbourhood only.

Andreia de Deus Rijo, tax lawyer in Lisbon
My legal partner

A Portuguese lawyer on your side

Buying here is not buying in the States. You sign a binding promissory contract and hand over a deposit before the deed, the transfer taxes are due before you sign at the notary, and there is no title insurance to fall back on.

I am not a lawyer, so I work alongside one. Andreia de Deus Rijo is a Lisbon tax lawyer who advises international clients on how to structure a purchase, on double taxation, and on succession planning.

Andreia de Deus Rijo Principal Associate, Tax · Antas da Cunha Ecija, Lisbon
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Where I work

Cascais & Sintra

Thirty minutes separate them. Cascais faces the Atlantic, and you can cross the whole town on foot. Sintra sits under the Serra, wooded and cooler by several degrees.

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How I can help

What you hire me for

  • 01

    Luxury Property Buying

    I sit on your side of the table. I will tell you when a house is overpriced, and I negotiate in Portuguese so the seller's agent has no advantage.

  • 02

    Property Sales & Marketing

    I prepare and photograph the house before it goes near a portal, then take it to the buyers already looking in your street. If you would rather nobody knew, we sell it quietly.

  • 03

    International Buyer & Relocation Advisory

    Schools, doctors, banks, and a lawyer who will read your contract line by line. I introduce you to the people I use myself.

  • 04

    Real Estate Investment Advisory

    Before you commit, you see the rental figures for that street and a builder's estimate for the roof.

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A white villa with painted azulejo panels above the rooftops of Sintra
Meet Marina

A bridge between America and Portugal

I am Portuguese-American. I worked in real estate in the United States, and recently my husband, our two children and I moved to Portugal and chose Cascais as home.

Doing it ourselves showed me how complicated the process is, especially without the language. I understand what American buyers expect, and I close the gap between the US and Portugal, from your first question to the keys.

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The journal

Notes on Portugal

Neighbourhood guides and market notes, written for people who are two years away from moving.

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Tell me what you're imagining

The first call costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Some of my clients booked one two years before they bought.

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The Cascais headland, marina and lighthouse in the late afternoon