Seven Quintas
“Seven Quintas” comes from a Portuguese expression: “estar nas suas sete quintas”, which literally means: “to be in one’s seven farmhouses”. This saying originates from when Portugal was a kingdom. The king used to live in Lisbon, he also owned seven quintas just outside Lisbon, near Seixal where he spent some time with his family. When they were there, they were happy, in their “seven quintas” so to say.

“Estar nas suas sete quintas” is nowadays used to express a feeling of contentedness, satisfaction, or feeling at home. Something like “to be in seventh heaven”, but then more down to earth! An appropriate name for a company that helps its clients find a home away from home.

Property Search
We are a fully government licensed Real Estate Company in Portugal, but what we really like to do is searching out a property for an individual client: going out there and finding the place of your dreams. That is why we put “property search” explicitly in our name. It is always very rewarding to match a property with a client. So it is very important to have a good understanding of what you are looking for. And by property, we mean a well built property in a good location, be it a holiday home, a permanent residence and/or investment property.

Hildegard Borkent, born and raised in The Netherlands, has always been interested in foreign countries, cultures, people and languages. After graduating from University in Amsterdam, she travelled for 8 months around the world, before settling there again. Since 1995 she had been a regular visitor to the Algarve. In 2000, after a career in business-to-business sales for an American multinational, she went to Portugal for a sabbatical and loved living there so much, she decided to stay and started working in real estate.

Over the years she has built up a substantial network and knowledge of the local real estate market in the Algarve and Alentejo regions of the country. In 2007 she created her own company: Seven Quintas Property Search, Mediação Imobiliária Lda, which is government licenced (AMI 7490) by InCI (Instituto de Construção e Imobiliária, this is the former IMOPPI) and is also a member of the Portuguese real estate association APEMIP (Associação dos Profissionais e Empresas de Mediação Imobiliária de Portugal), member number 3911.

Hildegard speaks five languages fluently: Dutch, English, French, German and of course Portuguese. She is passionate about finding the right property for you, so please feel free to contact her. If you are looking for a distinctive property or investment opportunity in Portugal - she is looking forward to hearing from you!

hildegard@sevenquintas.com