For estate agents, buyer's agents, lawyers and relocation advisers working with international buyers in Portugal. One inspection partner, every region, and a report written to keep sensible purchases alive.
Recommending an inspector carries two risks for you. The first is that the inspection turns up something and the buyer walks, taking your commission with them. The second is that the inspector is slow, unclear or unprofessional, and your client blames the person who recommended them.
We are not going to pretend those risks are imaginary. We have built the way we work around both of them.
On the first: surprises kill purchases, findings rarely do. A buyer who learns about damp before the promissory contract usually renegotiates. A buyer who discovers it two weeks after the deed becomes an angry person with your phone number. Our reports are severity rated, put every finding in the context of how properties of that era were built in Portugal, and set out a clear recommendation, so a normal defect reads as a normal defect.
On the second: you deal with Caryn directly, not a call centre. You get an answer the same working day, and a bilingual report within 48 hours of the inspection.
None of it is a payment. All of it is designed to make recommending us safe, quick and good for your client.
How we word findings is written down and public, so you can see exactly what your client will receive before you ever send them to us.
Read the standardSince the 2024 change to the rules on usage licences, more of the verification burden sits with the buyer and their advisers. An agent who advised independent due diligence, in writing, is in a far better position if a problem surfaces later.
We pay you nothing and you pay us nothing. That is deliberate, and it is what makes your recommendation defensible if a client ever asks why you suggested us.
Registered Portuguese architects and civil engineers across 13 cities and their surrounding regions. Your client in Braga and your client in Lagos each get an inspector who actually knows that area, and you deal with the same person at PIDS for both. Local expertise, one phone number.
Registered partners get first call on inspection slots, because your problem is usually the promissory contract deadline, not the price.
English or European Portuguese, delivered within 48 hours of the inspection, so it lands inside your timeline rather than after it.
Hand us the introduction and stop thinking about it. Scheduling, access, questions and delivery are ours. You are copied in only if your client asks for that.
Clients introduced by a registered partner get 50 euros off the inspection price. You are the one who got it for them.
Registered partners are named and linked on our site, which puts you in front of the international buyers already researching a purchase here.
Most buyers arriving from the US, the UK and Northern Europe expect an inspection as standard and are surprised it is not routine here. We give you something short you can forward instead of explaining it yourself.
This is the rule that keeps everything clean, and it cuts both ways. It is worth understanding before you refer anyone.
Independence is the product here. It is also what makes your recommendation safe.
Here you are our client, so we can talk about volume pricing and invoicing like any normal supplier relationship.
Send the client's name, the property location and the deadline you are working to. That is enough to start.
We quote them, book the inspection around their access arrangements, and keep you posted on the dates.
Delivered to your client in English or Portuguese. You receive the findings summary if they have agreed to that.
There is no contract, no minimum volume and no exclusivity. Try us on one job where the timing is tight or the property is outside your usual area.
No, and it is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight. On buyer-commissioned work we are paid by the buyer and by nobody else, which is precisely what makes the report credible and your recommendation defensible. Many of our clients come from countries where paying a fee for an inspection referral is against the law, and they ask. What your client gets instead is a partner rate, which you are the one who arranged for them.
Message us with the property location and your deadline. If we cannot meet it, we will tell you straight away rather than waste your time.