I.
We work for the buyer.
Most agencies are paid by the seller, and most agencies act accordingly. Our principal work is for the buyer, on a fee basis. The interests are simpler that way.
On the agency
A small house, founded in 1968.
Three generations, four streets, one telephone line.
Casa Madre was founded in 1968 by Jordi Domènech, on the ground floor of a finca in the Eixample, with a single telephone line and a small black notebook in which were written, in a careful hand, the names of forty-two Barcelona families. The notebook is still in our possession, though the families, by now, are largely on their third generation, as are we.
We are not a brokerage in the modern sense. We do not, on principle, take more than fifteen mandates in any given year, and we will refuse a property — politely, but firmly — if we cannot stand behind it. We work for the buyer, on a fee basis. We sell, when we sell, in confidence. We advise, when asked, with candour rather than agreeableness.
What follows are the three principles by which the house has worked, more or less without revision, since the spring of 1968.
The principles
Three, in their order.
II.
Off-market is our market.
Roughly seventy per cent of our annual transactions are concluded without a public listing. Forty-five years of relationships across the city's owners, architects, and notarial offices is, in this work, the only durable advantage.
III.
Time is the test of a property.
We will tell you when a building is wrong, when a price is wrong, when a moment is wrong. We are paid to be useful, not to be agreeable. We expect the same of our clients.
The team
The people of the house.
ED
Eduard Domènech
Founder, Managing Partner
Third-generation Barcelona broker. Joined the family practice in 1991; assumed direction in 2003. Member of the Col·legi d'Agents de la Propietat Immobiliària de Catalunya.
MC
Mariona Closa
Partner, Head of Residential
Eighteen years with the firm. Leads our residential mandates in the Eixample, Sarrià, and Pedralbes. Trained as an architect at the ETSAB.
PF
Pol Ferrer
Partner, Old Town & Born
Twelve years with the firm. Leads the Ciutat Vella practice, with a particular interest in restoration mandates and the heritage register.
JA
Júlia Aragó
Director, Advisory
Joined the firm in 2014 from BNP Paribas Real Estate. Leads our advisory mandates for family offices in Barcelona, Madrid, and Geneva.
With our regards, from Passeig de Gràcia.
— Eduard Domènech, Founder
Barcelona, 2026