Property on Madeira Island

Every property on this page is held under licence AMI 11220 by IAD Portugal, SA, and David Leça is the consultant who works the Madeira archipelago for them. He is a Madeiran, he lives there, and the mediation is his: the viewing, the negotiation, the contract.

iad has no branch offices. That is the point of it — the consultant comes to you rather than the other way round, and he works in partnership with agencies across the region, so an enquiry to him reaches more than his own book and a search does not mean telephoning a dozen agents yourself. There is no cost to a buyer for that. Commission is paid by the owner and is already inside the asking price.

His own description of the job starts a step earlier than most. Not what type of property are you looking for, but what do you want this property to do for you — a home to live in, a second home to use for part of the year, something let long term, something run as tourist accommodation, or some combination of those. The answer changes which properties are worth seeing, and it changes the tax table the purchase falls into, which is why it is the first question on this site too.

What we do is the introduction, and nothing else. We do not sell, value, negotiate, hold money or take instructions on a property. When you ask us for an introduction we pass your name to him with a reference, and from that point you are dealing with a licensed professional and not with a website.