The voice of our customers

Buyer

In January this year, having spent several months discussing and researching the Spanish property market, my husband and I decided finally to make a viewing trip and met with Mark Maskell from Homes Abroad at their Pinar de Campoverde office situated in the south of Costa Blanca.

Despite our best efforts we were still very uncertain when we arrived on the Costa Blanca and an earlier meeting with another agent did nothing to change this. However Mark helped us to work through many of these uncertainties as he was extremely knowledgeable not just about the process of buying property but about living in the area. He was able to answer our many questions but also posed some that we had not thought about.

We had a very successful initial viewing day and saw a variety of properties and locations and although we had not planned a second day, when we requested it Mark managed to organise several more viewings at very short notice.

Mark is very professional in his approach but is also extremely personable and friendly making it easy to work with him. He also has the ability to quickly gauge the needs of the client in order to show the correct properties in what was for us a time pressured visit.

Our visit was a successful one and through Homes Abroad we found a property that we are delighted with. Homes Abroad has continued to provide guidance and support post purchase which has been invaluable to first time buyers in Spain.

We would have no hesitation in recommending Homes Abroad to other potential overseas property buyers.

Jacquelyn & David Hagedorn

Jacquelyn & David Hagedorn

Buyer

I would just like to say a few words on my appreciation for all the effort and hard work that Homes Abroad put in on my behalf in the purchase of my new apartment in Riviera del sol (Costa del Sol)

I met Homes Abroad at the “place in the sun” exhibition in London back in March after being let down by other agents down on the Costa del Sol.

When visiting the home abroad stand I was immediately impressed with their positive attitude and friendly manner.

I had a trip down to Spain planned for the following month so their local office immediately started putting a selection of properties together to view and arranging with the relevant agents. On my first day of viewings I was pleasantly surprised at the respect they were being shown by the respective selling agents knowing they was working on my behalf as a buyer’s broker.

Over the next week they were fantastic in their arranging of times of viewings and at the same time building a relationship, so as to fully understand my requirements. Even when this involved me wanting to check out areas that they knew I would soon disregard from my search! They knew that was a decision I had to make without them applying any pressure.

When finding the right property in the right area they then showed their absolute professionalism, commitment and determination in putting in an offer and completing on what was an amazing deal for me in the purchase of a 2 bed 2 bath apartment.

For anyone looking to buy in the Costa del Sol area I would not hesitate to recommend Homes Abroad for their knowledge of the area and their understanding of what the client is looking for.

I know now I have also made good friends, that I look forward to catching up with on trips down to put their knowledge of great restaurants and bars to the test.

Mark Grufferty

Mark Grufferty

Buyer

We've been holidaying in southern Spain in the last 4-5 years and have fallen for the lovely climate and the south coast.

So we started looking at properties online, which however, is an almost impossible task!

When you sit at home in Denmark, and have limited knowledge of the different areas, it is difficult to make a specific search.
The real estate agencies are moreover not particularly interested in giving the specific addresses which makes it virtually impossible even to find the interesting locations.

But we were lucky to come in contact with Homes Abroad and we told them about our wishes and price level etc. Homes abroad started immediately and sent us emails with links and pictures of interesting properties form their network.

But we were still too little concrete to accurately say what area we wanted to stay in so we therefore agreed with Homes Abroad to come down on an inspection trip! 4 days to Puerto Banus to be more specific.

Maria from the local Homes Abroad office met very professionally up at our hotel the first morning and had already agreed the first 3 viewings. During this morning we quickly concluded that we knew too little about the area for us to be concrete yet. Based on the input we had given Homes Abroad during the morning, they managed to set up an afternoon program which more was a guided trip from Estepona to Fuengirola, where the pros and cons, from area to area was very competent reviewed.

Now we could narrow down our search area to only 2-3 areas, where we would like to find our home. Then, we had the rest of the afternoon off - while Maria together with the rest of the team, found some more properties in the areas that we have chosen.

After dinner we sat down with Maria and looked at about 50 possible properties which we could choose to see the next days.

The next two days then went on with viewings of the selected properties. Homes Abroad had also arranged a meeting with a lawyer that gave us a better understanding of the process and rules in Spain - On the 3rd day after several viewings we were fortunate to be presented with the right house, with meet virtually all wish we'd had.

After 3 hectic days with Maria from Homes Abroad and various brokers from their network, we can only give Homes Abroad our absolute recommendation.

They are very competent in the field, have a huge knowledge, know many interesting and nice places and works very hard around the clock until the job is done.

Subsequently, we have been led extremely processional through the buying process and the after sales both by the law firm and Homes Abroad.

All in all a super experience.

Paul & Henriette Kjærsgaard

Paul & Henriette Kjærsgaard