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Monday, August 5, 2013

 

Estate Agents in Spain

 


I spent over ten years working as an Estate Agent in England. Yes there are good and bad, but now a days they all have a level of professionalism, the property details in general at the very least, are well presented.
 

When we decided to start looking for a new home in Spain about six years ago, I was totally horrified by the Estate Agents in Spain. Details were a few lines saying how many rooms a property had and if it had electric and water, it was rare to get much more.
 

Over the six year period we have seen I would guess around a hundred properties using several different Estate Agents. This is amazing considering I knew what I wanted. The agents would not pay any attention at all to what we were looking for and as a result we saw the most unsuitable properties you can imagine and most had a large price tag, for basically a ruined shed.


 

We did over that time find two that we offered on. The first was before we moved to Spain and we flew over to do the paperwork, just to find that we where buying the stable not the main house. The Agent had the nerve to tell me it wouldn’t have been a problem if I had used his solictor. Not for them maybe, but later for me definitely.  Without a doubt there are very good Estate Agents in Spain, but be aware.
 

The second had similar paperwork problems, but they have now been solved, but it was a village house and after living in the village we decided we wanted out of town.
 

A New Start
 

After a really difficult first six months this year, things changed so dramatically, it made us look at everything. We decided the little village we have lived in for five and a half years, was not where we wanted to stay. This was a total u turn for me, but all of a sudden it was too small, we needed a total change, somewhere that was out of the way but close to somewhere bigger to give the girls more opportunities.
 

After a random meeting with a Spanish man selling lottery tickets, who started telling me how fantastic Huércal-Overa is and then two friends independently telling us about the great properties Voss Homes had, we decided to look.


We looked on the Internet and every house we liked in Huércal-Overa was with Voss Homes. We phoned and arranged to meet to go through what properties he had that matched or  almost matched what we wanted.
The property details were streets ahead of anything we had seen in Spain.
We meet Andy Voss in his office and spent over an hour, discussing possible properties. Some we had liked we all ruled out and one I had not liked, because of the name, was added.  We had a short list, then we prioritised to the top three and made an appointment.
 

As we did this the Owner of the property I had not met before came in to drop the price, was this to be a sign ?
On returning to Serón, we studied the details more, it was clear it was a sign and this was going to be our new home.
 

We brought forward the viewing date, I couldn’t wait. We viewed three, although all ticked many of our boxes, only one stole our hearts. Yes the one I had discounted.

We wanted to move quickly and Andy Voss was brilliant, he insured that everything was done as quickly as possible and kept us perfectly informed.
We signed all the paperwork and got the keys just four weeks and four days after our offer was accepted.  Andy came to the Notary even though he wasn’t holding the keys, professional to the end.


 

We are now settling in to our new home and Andy has kindly recommended everything from Carpenters  to Vets to help us get to know our new town. We can not thank him and his staff enough, for their totally professionalism and all the help they have offered.
 

OUR NEW HOME

Estate Agents in Spain
Voss Homes stand out from the crowd with the level of service and efficiency they offer. I have not come across another Estate Agent in Spain that comes even close and I have seen many.
 

 



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