Nathan op Tenerife
About · The long version
La Orotava · 2026
A letter of introduction

I'm Nathan.
Dutchman, neighbour,
buyer's agent.

I live in the north of Tenerife, with offices in La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz. I represent buyers from the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium — nobody else. I take a handful of clients a year. This page is me, in long form, so you know what you are getting into before we ever speak.
Fig. I · At the kitchen table, La Orotava
Photograph by Isabel, February
Part I — How I got here
p. 02

Iwas born in Gouda in 1986, which will date me exactly as much as it should. I studied law at Leiden, practised commercial litigation in Amsterdam for eight years, and spent roughly every fourth weekend on a cheap Transavia flight to somewhere warmer than the Dutch winter.

In 2017 my partner Isabel and I booked a week in Puerto de la Cruz for what we both assumed would be the last time before we gave up on the whole idea and settled for an apartment in Rotterdam. Instead we spent that week walking the old cobbled streets of La Orotava, drinking coffee in the same place every morning, and asking each other — in a half-joking way that got more serious as the week went on — why exactly we weren't doing this.

We moved in May 2019. I expected the move to be the hard part. It wasn't. The hard part was buying the apartment.

Eleven months. Three near-misses. A commission of five percent the selling agency charged that I was not told about — I discovered it only when I requested the escritura from the notary. A Dutch buyer's lawyer in Tenerife who spoke no Spanish. A Spanish accountant who explained IGIC to me over four separate coffees in four separate cafés.

By the time it was over, I knew, roughly, how every link in the chain worked. And I knew that none of it was written down anywhere a Dutch buyer could read without paying for it. So I started writing it down. Friends asked me to help. Their friends did too. And at some point in the winter of 2022 I quit my job.

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I do not want to be an agency. I want to be the Dutchman you call, once, when you're buying a house on Tenerife — and then never need to call again.

— the operating principle, on the wall above the desk
Part II — The trade, on one page
p. 06
Fees & model

What I charge, and why.

The whole model in one page. No discovery calls, no bespoke quotes, no tiered packages.

Initial conversation
A twenty-minute call. I'll tell you honestly if I'm the wrong person.
Free
Full representation, apartment
From first viewing to keys. Capped.
€6,500
Full representation, villa / finca
Includes structural walk-through with my builder.
€9,500
Single viewing, voice-noted
If you've already found it and just want a second pair of eyes.
€450
Dossier-only (mortgage & NIE)
The paperwork, bound, in Spanish. No viewings.
€1,200
Commission from the seller
None. Ever. This is the whole point.
€0
All fees paid in two instalments: half at signed arras, half at escritura. IGIC (Canarian VAT) is included. You will never receive a surprise invoice from me.
Part III — Credentials & the year, in figures
p. 09
Credentials
Colegio Oficial de Agentes de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria
COAPI Santa Cruz, nº 2847
Registered with Gobierno de Canarias
Professional civil liability insured to €600k
Vakhandelaar NVM Expat
Dutch trade association, since 2022
Nederlands, Deutsch, English, Español
Contracts read and negotiated in all four
No affiliated developers or agencies
Written into my terms. Auditable.
Last year, in figures
18
buyers represented
16
closings at the notary
2
declined — seller misrepresented
€6.2M
total transacted
9.1%
median negotiated discount
100%
of fees disclosed on page one
Fig. III · The coast from El Teide, January
Fig. IV · Calle Tomás Zerolo, a Tuesday morning
If you've read this far

The next step is a coffee, or a twenty-minute call.

I'll tell you honestly, inside the first ten minutes, whether I'm the right person for your situation. If I'm not, I know three agents on the island who might be — and I'll introduce you.

Book a twenty-minute call
Nathan