Tenerife property guide for selling with best results.

This Tenerife property guide will help you to sell on your own, through an agent.

Basic Tenerife property selling options:

• Sell through an agent who may charge you in the region of
  6% commission or,
  more while he should be able to sell with skill by experience.
• Sell by the Tenerife ownwers direct method clearing hurdles with a Tenerife lawyer.
  The lawyer doesn't charge more than 1 to 1,5 per cent where as a real estate agent sets you back 6 or more per cent.


• Selling your key property Tenerife directly means, generally,
  being more competitive and more flexible. Also, it means a better property price for both parties, often.

Selling property in Tenerife by first best impressions:

1. Have your home look clean and tidy with emphasis on well groomed.
   Your home should look new inside and out even, if it isn't.


2. A new coat of paint should not be given in the last minute.


3. Include garden, veranda and balconies for best property impressions.


4. Use paid help when not able to do all yourself during critical times.

Tenerife property guide on advanced strategies for sales:

1. Dog owners should ask potential Tenerife property for sale buyers if they mind dogs.
   If yes, dogs must be out of the way during property inspection.
2. Please, point out to dog lovers your dog friendly property. (when true)
3. Give your property the welcoming touch when expecting buyers.
   Fragrant flowers in focal points as well as a pot of deliciously smelling coffee make for a homely feel.
   It also might hide cigarette and pet odors, Be careful not to overdo it with air fresheners.
   Don't forget to have your curtains dry cleaned before putting your Tenerife property onto the market.
4. Don't have your house crowded with people during property visits and, keep music low.

Tenerife property guide on documentation required for selling:

1. Copy of your title deeds may be shown to buyer
   as well as nota simple which is ownership registration and your ID to prove correctness of address and ownership as well as building licenses and invoices for recent repairs. Pointing out some minor problem might create trust.
2. Promesa de CompraVenta which is a buying and selling promise)
3. Arrange for signing of title deeds with Public Notary...
4. An option is to keep the money deposit in a property trust account of a lawyer which a seller will welcome.


5. Also, mention a lawyer's much cheaper escrow services to transfer final payment out of the country. This may save both parties a substantial amount of capital.
6. Learn Spanish to be able to communicate with potential Spanish buyers without the need of an interpreter and to have better control of what is discussed.

Speaking the language of locals helps for selling better and more.
7. Use my best way to learn Spanish to get over the first hurdles and to make learning more fun.
8. Take advantage of frequent, cheap flights to Tenerife as an overseas property owner...
   To be in Tenerife at the right time when most potential buyers are on the island time is important.
9. In case, you want to sell to buy real estate which is specific and different, afterwards, make sure it's on the market. It may be wiser to stick with a property that brings in good rent for instance than exchanging it for another one which might be a "gamble" with profitability uncertainties.
   On the other hand who doesn't run risks doesn't win anything!

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Important:


Also, please, go from Tenerife property guide to Buy property in Tenerife where you find all the important points that also apply to selling in Tenerife in detail as far as documents and taxes are concerned unless you want to dig your own grave. Why?
We simply cannot leave all questions to a real estate agent. Or would you know which ones are vital in the first place or, not? Nope, that is impossible...

Every country has its own rules, and if only very few...

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Year 2008 tip released in spring on one way on how to get a Tenerife mortgage:


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An experience of a holiday home hunt 1997 to buy residential property in Tenerife: and to find residential property which resulted in a townhouse in La Orotava to get in limited time: That experience is just something off the beaten track which is so charming on the island.

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Why they never bought that mountain place Tenerife finca which is a rural property and not often represented in the usual Tenerife property guide although promising a terrific investment:

What's all the talk about fincas country estates or Tenerife farmsteads anyway?

To return to Tenerife real estate jargon explained with all property related links.

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