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A bilingual real estate agency in Cuenca. Buying, renting, and selling in the city we actually live in. We turn away listings we can't represent properly. No listing portals, no sales script, no relocation brochures.
Michelle leads the real estate side, sales, long-term and short-term. Jason runs content, marketing and strategy. A small local team behind them, raising four kids between us, two of them cuencanos by birth.
8+ yrs
living in Cuenca
100+
properties on the books
Bilingüe
English · Español, end-to-end
Equipo
small local team · bilingüe
The Colibri Nest - 2 BDR cozy apartment near tranvia
Zona Rosa · 2 bd · 2 ba
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Spacious 3-Bedroom Apartment in the heart of Ordoñez lasso
Ordoñez Lasso · 3 bd · 2.5 ba
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Spacious House in private condominium
Urb. de los Ingenieros · 3 bd · 3 ba
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Now selling Torresol
- Commercial unit Sold out
- Apartment from $87,200
44 available / 48 units View project ↗
§ II · Whose side
Almost every agent in Cuenca works for the seller.
An agent earns by selling their own listing, or by splitting the commission with whoever has it. So you see their inventory and their network, and you call that the market. None of this is unique to Cuenca. It's how most property markets work. But, buyers deserve another option.
- Owners who refuse to pay any commission get skipped entirely, even when one of them is exactly your place.
- Hire us instead and the commission sits on our side of the ledger, so the negotiation is actually a negotiation.
- And a developer's sales office works for the developer, which is just the job, so we read your promesa with you.
We don't compete on inventory volume. We compete on which 50 sales a year we're willing to put our names on.
Someone is always paying the person showing you the place. Worth knowing who.
How our buyer's agent service works ↗
yapa ❋ un regalito ❋ a little something extra ❋ the bonus we throw in ❋ de ñapa ❋ yapa ❋ un algo más ❋
§ III · What we do
- Buy 65 listings Browse our listings, or hire us as your buyer's agent and the whole market opens.
- New construction 8 projects · 142 units Sales offices work for the developer. We read the promesa before your money moves.
- Long-term 18 rentals Newcomers lose money in the contract. We translate and negotiate it before you sign.
- Short-term 25 stays · 1-week minimum The team that lists it is the team that cleans it and answers the phone.
- Sell list with us A high valuation wins the listing. We price for the buyer who's actually looking.
★ 8 projects · 142 units available
Under construction Edificio Tres Puentes
- Apartment from $118,000
2 available / 17 units View project ↗
Under construction Edificio Aria
- Commercial unit Sold out
- Apartment from $142,800
16 available / 49 units View project ↗
Now selling Naranjos 2-28
- Apartment from $92,000
11 available / 17 units View project ↗
Now selling Soleane
- Commercial unit Sold out
- Suite from $99,336
- Apartment from $149,618
22 available / 45 units View project ↗
Jason was my quarterback. He made everything happen.
— John Herd, US expat buyer
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