David Garrison Global

Part two from the Valencia rooftop. 🇪🇸

Last time we talked about education, finance, representation, and experience. This time, how they come together.

Buying in Spain isn’t just about finding the right property. It’s about having the right people in place before you need them: an advisor who knows the market, a lender who knows the system, and local relationships you can trust when you’re an ocean away.

Thinking about Spain? Let’s build your team. 📞 +1 404.668.4645

Atlanta is my home market. My territory is the world. 🌍

I just left Spain, I'm in Amsterdam but I've got Italy on my mind.

Here's why: FMLS - First Multiple Listing Service, our MLS back home in Atlanta, now has listing data from Listingplus.it in Italy and OMNI MLS across Central and South America. That's a real win for consumers, putting properties in front of buyers that would have been invisible just a few years ago.

But it's not the whole picture. Not even close.

In much of the world, there's no MLS culture like ours. Many properties are listed with just one local agency, shared by word of mouth, or never posted online at all. A data feed only shows what's been entered into it.

That's why the team you work with matters as much as the technology. To see the most property, you need trusted relationships on the ground with agents, developers, and lenders who know what's available before it ever shows up on a screen, and you need to work with the team that keeps showing up (THAT'S US) ,building and nurturing those relationships.

Data sharing opens the door. Relationships get you all the way inside. If you're thinking about buying in Europe or Latin America, let's talk about how to see the whole market, not just the part that made it online.

Atlanta is my home market. My territory is the world.

Preparing to blast off to Spain next week ✈️

Lining up meetings with my industry partners.

22 years building relationships with builders and developers not just in Atlanta, but around the world. Spain. Portugal. Mexico. Costa Rica.

I guide my clients through builder relationships here in the U.S.
I do the same for clients looking abroad.

Have a market or builder you want me to ask about while I'm there? Send it my way before I leave. 👇