Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash

It’s a known fact that Portugal has been a very attractive location for foreigners, not only as a touristic destination but also as a favorable location to invest in real estate properties. Due to this huge demand, more professionals specialize in the real estate brokerage activity. Moreover, new estate offices were licensed recently, with an average of four new estate agencies per day in 2017. Therefore, it’s important to remind investors that are interested in investing in the Portuguese real estate market about the main legal and tax matters.

Photo by Wil Stewart on Unsplash

For real estate agents that are beginning in this career or the ones that have some experience it can be difficult to remember all the specific characteristics of this market. More than that, it is not always clear how those characteristics can be used in the agent’s benefit.

I will describe some characteristics that make the real estate market so unique in the vision of Massimo Forte, a real estate specialist. His ideas were expressed in the book “Angariar para Vender” which means seek out clients to sell.

Photo by William Stitt on Unsplash

Realtor is one of the most common professions around the world. At least once in a lifetime every economically active person will buy, sell or rent an apartment, so there is always a market for this career. At the same time and because of that there is a very high competition with other agents or realtors.

Besides that, each country has different regulations to follow on this area and each one demands different basic requirements to practice the work. In some countries, it’s necessary not only to take a minimum number of specific course hours but also take exams to become a professional in real estate. Still every realtor must follow some basic good practice rules, like being honest with the clients, as in any work.

Because of all those facts I decided to share some interesting suggestions and ideas that I collected after a lot of research. The tips I will briefly describe now can surely help any realtor from any part of the world to succeed in his/her career.