Founder of Glaser Real Estate, family-run Costa del Sol agency since 2019. Dutch by birth, Costa del Sol by choice. GIPE and CEPI accredited. The person at the other end of this site's email.
Maarten founded Glaser Real Estate in 2019 in Arroyo de la Miel, on the eastern Costa del Sol. He'd spent the previous years buying and selling apartments and villas in the region as both principal and broker — and the thing he kept noticing was that the tools available to foreign buyers were not good enough. Portals had volume but no judgment. Brand agencies had judgment but no warmth. Independent brokers had relationships but no infrastructure.
Seven years on, the agency has signed somewhere around 500 transactions. Maarten still does the discovery calls himself when scheduling permits — and replies to email directly. The site you're reading lands in his inbox.
Maarten writes most of the long-form editorial on esteponaapartmentforsale.com — including the comparison pieces (Marbella vs Estepona, Nueva Andalucía vs Sierra Blanca), the quarterly market reports, and the buying guides that cover NIE applications, ITP brackets, and the comunidad de propietarios due-diligence that British and Dutch buyers consistently underestimate.
He also runs a YouTube channel — honest property tours and neighbourhood explainers, no theatrics. New episodes irregular, only when there's something genuinely worth showing.
GIPE-accredited (Spanish Federation of Independent Real Estate Professionals) and CEPI-accredited (European Council of Real Estate Professions) since 2019. Both organisations require continuing professional development, indemnity insurance, and adherence to a published code of conduct. You can verify membership on either body's public register.
Glaser Real Estate S.L. is a registered Spanish company (CIF B93734531) with full statutory accounts filed publicly.
Apartments between Málaga and Estepona — eight coastal towns. Foreign-buyer transactions specifically (English, Dutch, German speakers; some Scandinavian). Deals from €200k to €4M+. Both buy-side and sell-side, but not on the same transaction. Investment-led buyers welcome — the Glaser holiday-rental management arm operates in-house, which means Maarten can speak to actual rental performance per building, not portal-aggregated guesses.
Villas in Marbella's hyper-luxury segment (€5M+) — that's a different market with different players, and Maarten will refer rather than represent. Commercial real estate. Anywhere outside the eight coastal Costa del Sol towns we cover. Pre-construction without a clear licence-of-first-occupation timeline.
Email reaches Maarten directly. So does the WhatsApp number. The first 30-minute call is free, with no obligation. He'll tell you whether Glaser is the right fit before suggesting anything else.