Frequently asked questions
General questions
Proper is Spain's most advanced digital real estate platform for renting apartments. The Proper method replaces the need to run around, put aside your personal matters on a busy day, waste time and effort in renting out your apartment. Proper Homes has come to avoid headaches, difficult situations, and facilitate the rental of your new apartment without leaving home.
If you are looking for an apartment, you have all the characteristics of the apartment on the website, you can request an in-person visit and even view the property online to rent it. If you want to rent out your apartment, Proper will save you meetings, coordination, physical arrival at the apartment, and bureaucracy. Proper Homes will present you only serious offers from real tenants. Once you rent out the apartment, we will save you the bureaucratic mess, with just one click. With a link to a rental contract, the exchange of accredited documents with the owner, and payments that you can make online from the comfort of your home. Your success is our success.
Proper will save you many hours. Among them, the time spent in meetings with interested parties, phone calls, messages, taking pictures, virtual tours, having to answer the same questions for all potential clients, contracts, defaults, property damage, guarantees, and deposits. At Proper Homes, we will only present you with offers from serious tenants who are willing to rent as soon as possible, and we provide a tenant check, their history, and general data so you know who you are dealing with.
It's easy! To announce a property, go to the section of Publish a Property and follow the instructions. In the form, you'll need to enter details about your property to publish it. Once that's done, we offer a free review service, where a representative from Proper Homes will coordinate the visit to the property to take photos and create a Matterport virtual tour. This increases your chances of renting out the property. From here, all that's left is to wait for offers!
No, it's not possible. We only allow one advertisement per property to maintain professionalism, seriousness, and consistency in the details of the property and reward the trust that real estate agents/owners place in us. As the owner of a rental property, once you advertise on Proper Homes, you have exclusivity because we do not allow more than one advertisement per property. That means if you are the first to advertise a property, we assure you that you will not have competition to rent that same property on our website. We are building a quality platform, where we take care of both the customer looking for a new apartment and the people who trust us to publish their apartments.
Once your property has been published on the website, you have to make sure you have your personal data updated on Proper Homes, as one of our representatives will contact you to photograph the property. Once your property is published, interested tenants will contact you, and when you decide who to rent it to, we will pay you the rent monthly minus our commission.
The moment you confirm one of the offers that come to you through Proper Homes, the tenant is accepted. They will receive an email informing them that they have to pay the first month's rent, enter their details, and once you add yours, the payment will be sent to you to be able to pay you monthly.
At Proper Homes, we provide you with all the property details, a virtual tour of the property so you have no doubts. We also provide you with an easy and convenient process for exchanging signatures and documents between you and the landlord, a 100% refund policy if you do not close the deal through the intermediary. We bring you an innovative way to rent apartments, to provide you with peace of mind, security, and transparency throughout the process. And not only that, for each published apartment, one of our representatives will visit each property and verify that everything we present on the website is true and correct.
Of course! If you like an apartment, click on the button that says 'I WANT IT!' and you can talk to the owner, to clarify doubts or coordinate a visit, or the next steps. When both parties are ready to continue, you will enter your bank details to pay the monthly rent to the landlord. At that moment the apartment is yours, and we will coordinate the key handover. Transactions will be made through Proper Homes, where the Proper Fee will be 6% for the tenant and 3% for the landlord (without VAT).
To rent a property, you have to click on the 'I WANT IT!' button and you can talk directly to the owner, schedule a visit, ask questions, or rent directly.
Payment questions
Through our Terms of Use and other policies reflected by our web application, we ensure that both parties understand the rental process. If you feel more secure, you can offer the tenant to sign a contract.
In case a transaction does not close, a full refund of the payment made will be issued.
The details of the information on the website are protected and encrypted with SSL standard. No personal data is stored.
Support questions
Listing properties is free, having a reviewer create a virtual tour of your apartment is also free. For each transaction to rent your property, the fee will be 3% if you are the owner and 6% if you are the tenant wishing to rent.
Through Stripe.
You can reach us through the page Contact Us or by sending an email to info@proper.homes
We will notify you immediately if there is an issue with their payment and we will handle it with the tenant. In case the tenant is not cooperative, we offer rent payment coverage for up to 3 months.
You can request a 2-month security deposit from the tenant. In that case, we offer 5 months of security coverage for any default by the tenant.
We offer an insurance policy that covers you for damages and incidents that occur in the apartment. For more details, please contact us.
Don't worry. There is a cancellation policy that you'll need to review, and you can cancel the rental whenever you want.
To visit the apartment, you need to click the 'Request Visit' button. This request will be sent to the owner, and you will coordinate the visit according to your convenience. However, you must accept the terms of use and rent the property within the Proper Homes platform.
Renting outside of our platform is a decision that compromises the security and integrity of all parties involved. By doing so, you completely forfeit the protection and guarantees we offer through our platform, exposing yourself to significant financial and legal risks. It's important to keep in mind that avoiding the use of our platform exposes you to a uncertain terrain, where lack of regulation and supervision can result in disastrous consequences, from financial problems to legal proceedings. Therefore, we strongly urge you to use our rental service exclusively and respect our policies. This not only provides a safer and protected experience for you, but also contributes to maintaining a trusting and secure environment for all members of our community.