About Marco
Built by someone who
felt it first.
Marco wasn't built from a spreadsheet. It was built from a feeling, one that a lot of people in Britain are having right now.
Rome, 2025. The pizza that started it all, and the question that followed.
The origin
A question that started
over a pizza in Rome.
A year of solo travelling across Europe had a cumulative effect. Not the travel itself. The contrast. Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rome: six cities in one year. Each one asked the same quiet question, and the thought kept surfacing: why is this not where I live?
The UK isn't what it was. The cost of living is unsustainable, the job market is the worst I've ever seen it, and Brexit took away freedoms that people my age hadn't even had the chance to use yet.
It wasn't just a personal feeling. Scroll through any social media feed aimed at people in their twenties and thirties in Britain, and you'll find the same conversation happening everywhere. People aren't just complaining. They are genuinely asking whether their future looks better somewhere else. The answer, increasingly, is yes.
The problem is that the move itself is daunting. The visa routes are complicated. The property search is conducted in a foreign language on unfamiliar platforms. The currency, the removals, the insurance, the tax implications: it's not that any single part is impossible, it's that having to coordinate all of it at once, from a country you're trying to leave, while holding down a job and a life, is genuinely overwhelming.
That's the gap Marco fills. Not a portal. Not a list of links. A single, connected journey, from the moment you start taking the idea seriously to the moment you arrive somewhere and think: this is it.
Marco is being built for people who feel exactly what I felt. I'm one of them.
What we believe
Three things Marco stands for.
These aren't values written in a meeting room. They're the principles behind every decision made in building this platform.
Honesty over optimism
Every Marco city guide tells you what nobody else will: the real costs, the genuine trade-offs, who each neighbourhood actually suits and who should look elsewhere. Trust is built on honesty, not on making every option sound appealing.
Integration over aggregation
Every competitor is a portal, a list of links that sends you somewhere else to solve each problem. Marco handles visa, property, currency, removals, and insurance as one connected journey. Not five browser tabs. One process.
Specificity over scale
Marco is built specifically for British nationals moving to Europe post-Brexit. Not generic expat content, not global relocation advice. The visa routes, the tax implications, the cultural context: all of it is written for one specific person making one specific move.
The platform
Not just a website.
A complete relocation stack.
Marco's initial focus is Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, the three European cities British expats are choosing most consistently. Each city has its own set of zone guides, neighbourhood breakdowns, visa routes, and partner services.
The model is three-sided: tenants pay a booking fee to access the full relocation stack. Landlords and agencies pay a monthly subscription to reach pre-qualified British tenants. Affiliate partners (visa consultants, currency specialists, insurance providers, removal companies) are matched to users at the point in the journey where they are most needed.
Everything is connected. The visa timeline informs the property search. The property search informs the currency transfer. The currency transfer connects to the removals booking. That connection is what makes Marco a platform rather than a directory.
This is a pre-launch platform. The waitlist is open. The landlord relationships are being built. The city guides are live and free to read. Marco will launch when supply and demand are ready to meet each other properly, not before.
What's live right now
Everything you need to start thinking seriously about the move.
- 26 free zone guides across Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid
- Honest neighbourhood breakdowns: costs, transport, who each area suits
- Waitlist for early access to the full platform
- Landlord registration open for early adopters
- Visa route overviews for Portugal and Spain post-Brexit
- Partner services coming at launch: currency, insurance, removals, tax
Ready?
Don't just leave.
Arrive.
Join the waitlist for early access, or start with the city guides and take it at your own pace.