Do I need a real estate agent?
You have come to Costa del Sol, you love the weather, the lifestyle, the gastronomy, and you are thinking about purchasing a property in the Costa del Sol in Costa del Sol… Where to start?
Please, let us give you two indispensable pieces of advice for everything to be ok:
- Find an expert real estate agent,
– An agent with a long career and a deep knowledge of the area will help you to find what you are really looking for, advising you about the area, price and showing you the best opportunities.
You should choose an expert about the area where you are thinking to invest in. If your agent is a true specialist, he/she will give you advices and other information that will be very interesting to make the correct choice.
– A true real estate agent has an important clients’ properties portfolio which will be available for you to choose that which best suits your needs and requirements.
– The agent will organize dates to see the properties scheduled to suits your timetable so that you don’t have to worry about anything. He will talk to the owner, take the keys and bring them to the property without any trouble to you.
– He/she will collect, together with your lawyer, all the documentation that you may need from the seller, as well as the residents’ association statutes, community fees, direct debits, up to date patronage certificate, etc.…
– He/she will negotiate the prize between the seller and the buyer, situation that will resolve with skill for both parts, avoiding what in some occasions may be something unpleasant and not ending in an agreement. Your agent will negotiate properly to close the deal considering the wishes of both parties. This is especially important, and the election of an experienced professional will help to make all these steps successful for you.
– If you don’t have any experience in the real state sector, we advise you to hire a professional real estate agent. The commission for buying or selling of an apartment is of a 5% that you should pay to your agent. If more agents are involved, they will split the commission reaching a private agreement.
The buying process of a property is not an easy process and only an expert real estate agent is able to close a successful operation in a reasonable amount of time.
In Greenlife Estates, we have more than 20 years of experience in this area. We are experts in the East area of Marbella and thousands of successful operations with our clients can be added to our long career.
Greenlife Estates has been a promoter of Elviria Hills among many other projects in Marbella and Sotogrande, we know perfectly the market and the product in Costa del Sol. We are specialised in Elviria, because, apart from real estate agent, for more than 20 years we have built the best projects in the area, as Elviria Hills and Greenlife Golf in Elviria, Greenlife Village in Rio Real, Imara in Sierra Blanca, La Trinidad in Milla de Oro…etc.
We want to help you in the buying or selling of your property. Contact us and you will see how our sales agents carry out the best work that you can expect from an expert commercial agent.
- Find a lawyer that speaks your language besides Spanish. The lawyer will check all the documents and guarantee that the operation is successful without surprises or shocks for you. If you are foreigner, we advise you to hire a lawyer that speaks Spanish as well as your mother language. There are plenty of lawyers in Costa del Sol that speak perfectly Spanish and other languages. You can find them using the consulate of your country in Spain or in the address www.abogadomarbella.es
You can find many foreigners lawyer working in Marbella speaking excellent English, Spanish and many others languages who are accustomed to dealing with property purchase for foreign residents. You can ask your contacts or friends or you can have a look at www.abogadomarbella.es You can also ask the Consulate which also have a list of lawyers who speak the language of your nationality.
Greenlife Estates as a reputable estate agent are very happy to verify any of the information through our clients’ lawyers. We are always pleased to send them all the info about the property you are interested in, so that your lawyer checks everything in papers (outstanding mortgage, m², paid taxes, annual community fees, registered title deeds, building permissions, etc).
By Massimo Filippa
Information given is offered for information purposes, excluding the company and the author from all responsibility, not constitute an official publication nor will it be binding. We always recommend check with your lawyer or adviser.
Massimo Filippa
