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Property Finding
Our Property Finding Service
As we have already said, we are not estate agents. We do, however, provide a property finding service for our investor clients.
If you wish to take advantage of this service we will use our knowledge of the market place and our contacts to locate properties that meet your specification.
We will charge you for the work that we do. We charge a fee of 3% of the value of the property found, subject to a minimum.
Of course, you are not really paying us for the few letters and telephone calls it takes us to find your property. You are paying for the hundreds of hours we spend each year researching the market and for our 20+ years experience and list of contacts.
The good news, however, is that we will very often receive a commission from the estate agent or the developer who is selling the property. This is a ‘thank you’ for introducing you as a buyer. We pay the whole of this commission back to you. It can easily be more than the fee we charge you! For example, if you were buying a property in Spain we might receive a commission of up to 7% of the value of the property in which case, on a property of £200,000, we would end up sending you a cheque for £8,000. This comes as a very pleasant surprise to our clients.
Of course, we do not receive a commission in every case. There are some countries and some places within countries where no commissions are payable or where the commission is, in any event, paid by the buyer and not by the seller. Nonetheless, we end up sending a lot of money to our clients.
Our Property Transfer Service
Once you have found your property – whether using our property finding service or your own initiative – we can deal with the transfer of the legal ownership of the property into your name.
Ongoing Assistance
Some of our investment clients ask for our ongoing assistance by way, for example, of an annual review of their portfolio. We can then suggest which of the properties, in our view, are likely to have reached their peak and might be sold.
More Information
See our country specific pages for brochures about these various services.
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