A lot of people ask how @affordihome works and what are our core services, so here's a high level overview. We work exclusively for buyers. That means we're always on your side of the table. There are two core things we do: 1) We run bespoke property searches tailored to each client's requirements. You tell us what you're looking for (budget, location, type, intended use etc.) and we find it across Spain, Italy, Portugal and France. 2) And we advise and support you through the entire buying process. Purchasing abroad comes with different legal systems, languages and processes. We stay with you from search to signed. If you want to talk through your situation before committing to anything, we also offer consultations. A lot of people find that's the best place to start. We have 25,000 newsletter subscribers covering Mediterranean property every week. If you're not ready to buy yet but want to stay informed, that's free and the link is in bio. Hope this helps make things clear and I'm always a DM away in case of any questions.

Try thinking about your cap table with jamón and a cold cerveza in front of you. You simply can't.

The juice in them

Just as I was about to give it a try over the weekend 🥺

BREAKING: SpaceX stock, $SPCX, surges over 30% to a fresh record high and hits $2.3 trillion in market cap. SpaceX is now the 6th largest public company in the world.

That’s exactly how I feel about living in Europe. - Are taxes high and wish they were lower? Yes - Is bureaucracy and regulation over the top in some cases? Yes - Do I and my family feel secure and enjoy life? Yes

Six apartments, a pool, and 15 acres of Tuscan countryside, in San Gimignano. The whole estate is on the market for €1.3M ($1.5M). It's a 367m² (~3,950 sq ft) farmhouse split into six self-contained apartments, with 8 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms between them, a 16x8m pool, and parking for ten cars. I think everyone knows by now that San Gimignano is one of the most visited places in all of Tuscany. The estate is about 0.6 miles (1 km) from the historic centre, with Florence 37 miles (60 km) north and Siena around 25 miles (40 km) away. Each apartment has its own entrance, kitchen and terrace, and it's running as a holiday rental at the moment. I actually sent this to a client the other day, but he's after something bigger. For the right person, though, it's a nice chunk of Tuscany for the money, and a business that's already running. Would you run it as rentals, or turn it back into one big home?

I'm disappointed she didn't play 'Waka Waka' though. Nor 'Hips Don't Lie'.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has officially kicked off. Can we finally agree it's called football, not soccer?

Interesting how 9 out of 10 waterfront villas in Croatia come with a private boat mooring or pier. You rarely see that in Italy or Spain, and if you do, they are easily €3M . Here's one such example on Korcula Island. €1.6M

This question frightened me when I was younger, but with time, I became curious and started thinking about it more and more. I heard this concept on a podcast recently, which I really liked: Death is not the opposite of life. Death is the opposite of birth. Life is eternal and has no opposite.

Product and feature release-wise, Claude is crème de la crème. But what fascinates me most is how quickly they became the most emotionally likeable AI out there. Even if you told me OpenAI was better, I’d still choose Claude. Their moat is crazy strong.

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are. For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland). Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates). Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something. These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅 Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers. Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth. What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc. Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing. To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was. I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away. THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth. At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in. Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity. This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes. When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand. Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current. This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside. So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

My son is turning 11 this week and as a gift I’d like to open an investment account for him. The idea is every time we give him money and he decides to put it in the market, we’ll double it. Would appreciate any recommendations about the best way to go about it.