How Zagdim builds and maintains the directory

01Why Zagdim keeps this directory

Zagdim was founded in 2019 as a publication and information service on international property, investment and relocation. Our purpose is to make buying, investing and settling abroad more transparent, simpler and more dependable.

The difficulty readers describe most often is not finding someone. It is knowing whom to trust: the information is scattered across websites and languages, and hard to verify. So Zagdim checks each professional's identity and credentials against the official source, and publishes the result together with where it came from.

02Who gets a profile

Firm profiles. Zagdim can create one for any firm whose registration we can find on an official register. The content comes from that register and from public information on the firm's own website, and every item states its source. Where the firm has not yet reviewed the content, the page is marked “Public-record profile”.

Is this your firm? You can ask for a correction, an addition or removal at any time. Once you have confirmed the content, the “Public-record profile” label comes off. Write to [email protected].

Individual profiles. Created only with the person's written consent. Any licence or credential listed must be traceable to an official source. Not every profession or country has a licensing system; where there is none, no licence is required.

Zagdim does not select by size, years in practice or number of cases, and does not rate professional ability.

03What a profile contains

Identity, credentials and registrations, scope of service, firm, and any Zagdim articles in which the person was interviewed. Each item is marked either as verified by Zagdim or as stated by the firm or the professional. For how we verify, see What verification means.

Profiles carry no ratings and no prices. Anyone who has worked with a professional can use the experience form to describe what happened, and professionals may pass the link to their own clients. All contact goes through the Zagdim Reader Desk; profiles do not show personal phone numbers or email addresses.

04Fees, coverage and introductions

Creating and maintaining a profile is free. Whom Zagdim interviews and what it publishes are decided independently by the editorial team. A profile, a commercial relationship or a payment of any kind cannot buy an interview, publication, favourable coverage or a higher position. People we interview may ask for factual errors to be corrected; they do not decide what an article says.

The Reader Desk is free and never charges readers. It usually replies within 24 hours. Professionals quote their own fees case by case, and Zagdim readers can usually begin with a free 20-minute online consultation. The desk judges by the reader's need, location, language and the scope of service whether an introduction makes sense, and makes one only with the reader's consent.

05Corrections, updates and removal

Professionals and firms can ask at any time for their own profile to be corrected, updated or removed. Zagdim also corrects the errors it finds and records the correction on the page. Licences and registrations are rechecked every 12 months.

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