Developer profiles
Entity authority reviews, not sales brochures. Verify permits, delivery history, bank guarantees, and escrow before any deposit. Start with the developers hub.
What a developer profile covers
Each profile checks the legal entity behind a scheme rather than the marketing brand. AICCOPN recorded 41,592 new dwelling licences in 2025, up 20.1% year on year, so the number of active promoters is rising faster than the track record available to verify them. A brand name on a hoarding is frequently not the entity named on the CPCV.
- Legal identity, company name and NIPC on the land registry versus the marketing brand
- Delivery history, completed schemes, handover dates, and slippage against the original longstop
- Guarantees: Decreto-Lei 67/2003 bank guarantee or insurance covering every pre-deed payment
- Licensing, licença de construção, IMPIC promotional filing, and the utilisation licence position
- Buyer terms, payment milestones tied to construction certificates, not calendar dates alone
Before you transfer a deposit
Match the guarantee certificate amount and beneficiary to the exact seller entity on the contract, not the brand alone. Non-residents completing from 1 September 2026 pay flat 7.5% IMT under DL 97/2026, so escritura timing changes the total cash-to-close on any off-plan purchase that straddles that date. Read the CPCV guide and the off-plan guide before signing, and keep an independent lawyer, never the developer's.
Checking a developer before a deposit?
Send the project and seller name, we return registry, licence and guarantee checks to run.