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What we would want to know if it were our home.

Straight answers to the questions owners ask us before they are ready to talk to anyone. No sales pitch, no invented numbers.

Lisbon residential street with tiled façades and wrought iron balconies

What drives the cost of renovating a Lisbon apartment

Two apartments on the same street, the same size, can differ enormously in cost. It is almost never the kitchen units. It is what the building forces you to deal with first.

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Renovated Madrid apartment interior with tall windows and warm plaster walls

What drives the cost of a reforma integral in Madrid

A full reform in Madrid is decided in the planning, not on site. The buildings are generally robust; the cost sits in the installations, the permissions and the sequence.

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Detail of stone and joinery in a finished bathroom

How to read a renovation quote

Most people compare quotes on the total. The total is the least informative number in the document. What matters is what is inside it, and what has been quietly left out.

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Empty European room with tall arched windows and warm evening light across a tiled floor

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