Frances MacKenzie says she listed exclusively with HomeEspaña because she didn’t want to work with anyone else. And that has certainly paid off as HomeEspaña has sold not only the villa in La Zenia where she lived, but also the three apartments she owned in Torrevieja… and all in the space of a few months!
“I went with HomeEspaña because I had such a good experience buying with them,” said Frances, who moved to La Zenia 18 months ago from her native Somerset in the UK. “I had only really booked to look at one villa and Jamie took me round. And what I did notice is that he listened to what I wanted and what I didn’t want. He got together four properties for me and all of them met my requirements. It was so refreshing, really.”
Frances ended up choosing a three-bedroom, two-bathroom villa that she said was the perfect size for her.
“And the area was lovely. I was out of the hustle and bustle, but close enough that I could nip to the shops. I arrived in Spain on the Sunday and was going to arrange to pick up the keys to the house, but they (HomeEspaña) said no, we will meet you at the villa. Julie arranged for a cleaner to come in and this was all on the Sunday. She greeted me there with a card and a bottle of bubbly.”
Frances said that after the travelling, it was just a very, very nice start to life in Spain. She then went on to buy three investment apartments in Torrevieja to let out for holidaymakers, but an illness in the family resulted in her deciding to move back to the UK and that was when she reached out to HomeEspaña again.
HomeEspaña listed the three apartments in Torrevieja, two two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartments on the second floor of a building just 10 minutes’ walk from Playa del Cura and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom penthouse just two minutes’ walk from Playa de Acequión in November 2022.
“They were very quick off the mark and Jaimy was very good with the photos and the advertising,” Frances said. So much so that HomeEspaña sold the penthouse apartment just two days after the advertisement was published!
The other two apartments sold in December 2022 and January this year respectively and all the sales have since completed successfully at the notary.
Frances also put her villa on the market, which sold in March this year for €200,000. “The initial sale actually fell through, but they moved so fast,” Frances said. “They had another buyer two days later, she said.” The villa sale completed at the notary in May.
“They just made everything go so smoothly. I went into the office a lot and Becks was just brill. So efficient and so friendly,” Frances said. I think I have dealt with the whole lot of them now,” Frances jokes in reference to the HomeEspaña team. “They are so friendly and personable. They really are just a great team. I never once had to pick up the phone to say what’s going on? They always kept me informed,” Frances said.
HomeEspaña also helped Frances with the legal side of the sale through its sister company HomeFinance and put her in contact with a currency company.
“I gave Jane from HomeFinance Power of Attorney so I didn’t even have to go to the signings and she arranged for the currency company to pick up the cheques and put them in my account so I didn’t really have to do anything. They gave me a sterling service if you will excuse the pun,” Frances said.
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