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GRABAU INTERNATIONAL
Tell us about your company Grabau International is a yacht brokerage, new yacht sales and yachting conveyancing business based in Lymington, and a network of offices across the UK and Europe including London, Scotland, Florence Italy, Palma de Mallorca, Helsinki Finland, and Gothenburg Sweden. What sort of boats do you sell? Our focus is on high-quality luxury bluewater and performance cruising yachts and motor yachts from all marques and in the value range of circa £100k to in-excess of £10,000,000. With approximately 200 brokerage listings available at any one time, located across the UK, Europe and worldwide, we aim to have something to suit most tastes and budgets. Alongside our brokerage activities, we also represent a selection of well-established new yacht brands across the sailing and motor yacht markets. What about the Solent region? Our roots are still very much buried within this yachting-rich environment with our company headquarters in Lymington. Grabau International South Coast, headed by seasoned Grabau International broker James McNeil, caters specifically to brokerage activities within the Solent and central south coast region. Grabau International South Coast’s operates a 7-days a week professional full-service brokerage is fully integrated within the company’s international marketing program, ensuring that any locally-based listing is comprehensively promoted not just within the UK, but also worldwide. Why is it important to use a Professional Yacht Broker? The sale or purchase of a yacht can be a complicated process involving significant amounts of money. Boats are assets that can move freely, both within the UK, the EU, and can originate from or travel to anywhere in the world. This freedom of movement presents a multitude of risks regarding legal title, registration, VAT and standards of conformity compliance all of which any potential purchaser should be very wary of before handing over their money and sailing away from the dock. Establishing the correct value of a yacht in the present market conditions, effectively and proactively marketing it in the right places, dealing with the subsequent enquiries and then successfully taking both buyer and seller through the delicate process of viewings, negotiations, creation of legal contracts, secure handling of client
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