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Licences and registrations

Estate agency is a registered activity, and the register differs in each of the three markets: the AMI licence from IMPIC in Portugal, the ORN and BRN numbers issued by the Dubai Land Department, and the applicable autonomous-community register in Spain.

This page identifies each of those registers and the authority that issues it. The Rhamos Properties numbers have not yet been allocated and are therefore not published: they appear here on the day they exist, and not before.

Draft

Document in preparation

This page is a working draft. The description of each register awaits review by qualified counsel in all three jurisdictions, and no licence number is shown until it is confirmed and verifiable with the issuing authority.

Draft version of 13 August 2026.

Which licences are published?

This section shows the register as it stands. There is no version for the visitor and another for the firm.

None published, for now.

The licence register on this site is empty. That is not a content oversight: it is the real position. The rule we follow is that a number the firm cannot evidence on paper is not published — not approximated, not partial, and not accompanied by a vague note that cannot be checked.

The table below nonetheless shows which register governs each market and who issues it. That is the information which lets you verify us the moment the numbers are allocated, and it is also the list of what we are missing.

While this section reads as it does, treat any claim about professional authorisation as unverified — including ours.

Registers applying to the activity in each market, the issuing authority and the status of the number.
Market	Register	Issuing authority	Number
Portugal	AMI — estate agency licence	IMPIC — Instituto dos Mercados Públicos, do Imobiliário e da Construção	To be confirmed
Dubai	ORN — Office Registration Number	Dubai Land Department (DLD)	To be confirmed
Spain	Estate agent registration	Applicable autonomous-community register	To be confirmed

The number column is marked as pending where the number has not yet been allocated. No field in this table holds an approximate value.

What is missing before this page is complete, in the order that matters to a reader:

To be confirmedAMI — estate agency licence — Portugal, IMPIC — Instituto dos Mercados Públicos, do Imobiliário e da Construção.
To be confirmedORN — Office Registration Number — Dubai, Dubai Land Department (DLD).
To be confirmedEstate agent registration — Spain, Applicable autonomous-community register.
To be confirmedThe BRN — Broker Registration Number — of each consultant working in Dubai, to be published on their profile.
To be confirmedThe autonomous community in which the Spanish activity is carried on, which determines the applicable register.
To be confirmedThe professional indemnity policy, with insurer and policy number.

Which register governs each market?

Three jurisdictions, three regimes that do not substitute for one another. Being registered in one does not authorise practice in another.

01
Portugal — the AMI licence
AMI is the estate agency licence issued by IMPIC, the Institute of Public Markets, Property and Construction. It is the authorisation that allows a firm to carry on estate agency work in Portugal.
The number must be visible in the firm's communications. That is why the footer of this site has a place reserved for it, and why that place is empty rather than filled with a placeholder.
Verification: with IMPIC, the authority issuing the licence.
02
Dubai — ORN and BRN
The Dubai Land Department issues two distinct numbers, and both matter: the ORN, Office Registration Number, identifies the agency; the BRN, Broker Registration Number, identifies each consultant individually.
One identifies the house, the other identifies the person in front of you. Publishing only the first leaves half the question unanswered, so each consultant's BRN will be published on their profile as well as appearing here.
Verification: with the Dubai Land Department, the authority issuing both numbers.
03
Spain — the autonomous-community register
Spain has no single national register of estate agents. Several autonomous communities have created their own registers, with entry required to practise in that territory, and the applicable register depends on the community in which the activity is carried on.
That is why the site register identifies this entry as «applicable autonomous-community register» rather than as a named body: naming the wrong register would be as useless as naming none.
Verification: with the competent autonomous-community register, once identified.

How to verify a number

A licence number is worth only as much as the source that issued it will confirm. The procedure is the same in any market.

01
Note the number exactly as published, without rewriting it.
02
Confirm it with the issuing authority named in the table above, not with the party presenting it.
03
Check that the name of the holder matches the firm you are dealing with.
04
If a number cannot be confirmed at source, treat it as non-existent. That applies to this firm exactly as it applies to any other.

What an agency licence covers, and what it does not

The distinction sets what we can state on our own account and what we have to refer to another professional.

It covers

Carrying on estate agency work in the market the registration relates to.
Representing a buyer or a seller under a written mandate.
Conducting the negotiation and seeing the matter through to the deed.

It does not cover

It does not make us solicitors. Legal advice is given by those holding the professional title to give it.
It does not make us accountants or tax advisers. The tax treatment of a transaction is confirmed by someone qualified to sign it off.
It does not make us valuers. A valuation for lending purposes is carried out by a valuer registered for that purpose.
It does not replace the notary, the land registry, or the documentary checks each of those steps requires.

Professional indemnity insurance

Once the policy is in place and confirmed, we will publish the insurer, the policy number and the scope of cover here. It is information a client can check with the insurer, which is why it is worth publishing in full rather than mentioning in passing.

To be confirmed:

To be confirmedInsurer and policy number.
To be confirmedTerritorial scope and limits of cover.
To be confirmedInception and renewal dates of the policy.

Where these numbers will appear

A registration hidden on a legal page does not do its job. These are the places each number enters as soon as it exists.

In the footer of every page of the site.
On this page, with the issuing authority written out in full.
On the contact page, next to the office it relates to.
In the Dubai content, where ORN and BRN accompany the market information.
On each consultant's profile, in the case of the BRN.
In the organisation's structured data, in the hasCredential field, which is omitted today because no number is confirmed.

Why this page exists

A licence is expensive to obtain, carries requirements that persist over time, and cannot be imitated without legal exposure. That is why it works as proof rather than as assertion: any firm can say it is rigorous, but only a registered firm can publish a number the authority will confirm.

It is also rarely given prominence on an estate agency site, which leaves the space free. It will be occupied on the day the numbers exist — never with a number that cannot be confirmed against the register that issued it.

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Checking before you proceed

If you are considering working with us and need the authorisation documents before any conversation, ask for them. We send what exists, as it exists, without waiting for this page to be complete.

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