About us
Reto Jörg
Reto Jörg born in The Netherlands but Swiss by origin has been living in Portugal since 1986. He completed a degree in Agriculture in Switzerland and was in the special forces of the Swiss army before moving to Argentina to start his career as the manager of a large cattle estate.
In 1986 Reto moved to Portugal where he first started to manage Outeiro de Esquila – family estate and soon after founded Nora Green Consulting together with Herman van Beuningen. Reto is the Managing director of Nora Green and also interim manager for several of our clients amongst others.
Hein Van Beunigen
Hein van Beuningen (Adriano how he is called in Portugal) was born and raised in Portugal until he left the country to finish secondary school in England. During his gap year working at a winery in Portugal he decided to study International Business and Management in the Netherlands. After completing his studies Hein worked at The Baarsma Wine Group, one of the largest wine traders in Europe.
Hein continued his professional life at Aon Risk Solutions in Rotterdam where he was account manager for global accounts. Having spent 3 years at Aon he took on the opportunity to become client executive at Marsh & McLennan companies for another two years. During his last post in Munich he decided together with his wife to return to his roots in Portugal and became Partner at Nora Green Consulting in the summer of 2014.
About Us
Nora Green Consulting is your strategic partner when it comes to real estate. For many years we have a very strong and large network which enables us to find the unique objects which you are looking for, mostly the objects which come ahead of the market. Nora Green Consulting has a deep understanding of the local rules and regulations and has very close links to the local administration offices. This personal approach enables us to have a great deal of added value for our clients since our long term experience and local knowledge allows us to get things done in a quicker way.
We also distinguish ourselves from our competitors because Nora Green Consulting focusses on helping clients during the entire process, not only during transactions. We are able to put ourselves in your position as we have many experience with different cultures and clients from all over the world. We have the advantage to speak in 7 languages but being locals at the same time. Our knowledge and expertise will help you get a head start in your adventure in the Alentejo.
Nora Green Consulting was founded over 35 years ago by Herman van Beuningen (The Netherlands) and by Reto Jorg (Switzerland).
The company started with the trade in dairy cattle and agricultural products and machinery. Not long after it also started a real estate branch focusing to help foreign investors with the acquisition of rural properties in Portugal, namely dairy, cork, beef, arable, olive and wine farms. Nora Green supported most of its clients with setting up de investments but also performed several turnkey projects.
Currently Nora Green Consulting has developed into a very diversified (rural) real estate broker and consultant providing solutions in the field of real estate and agriculture in the Alentejo province. Our office is based at the Herdade Outeiro de Esquila Estate very close to the UNESCO World Heritage City of Évora, the capital of the Alentejo and situated one-hour south east of Lisbon.
