Advertising Feature: 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

monies, assisting and liaising with the surveyor, correct transfer of title, administration of registration and any necessary dealings with marine finance (in respect of settling outstanding or arranging new marine mortgages) can, and often will take a great deal of time, commitment, knowledge and experience.

As many yacht owners are very busy people who prefer to spend their leisure time enjoying the fruits of their labour, the services of a qualified, experienced and professional yacht broker can be extremely valuable. Grabau International’s brokerage services operate to the strictest of practice guidelines outlined by the Association of Brokers and Yacht Agents (ABYA).

Tell us more about your Yacht Conveyancing Services

The sale of a yacht involves two very distinct stages. The first is the boat’s listing, and marketing resulting in a buyer found, and an offer agreed. The second stage involves taking both buyer and seller through the process of contracts, surveys, sea trials, subsequent negotiations and of course, the baffling paperwork concerning title, registration, VAT and standards of conformity compliance.

This second stage is almost always complicated and fraught with risks and potential pitfalls. As a result, even if a seller is happy to deal with the first stage themselves, Grabau International offers standalone Yacht Conveyancing services to cater to this complex and challenging process.

Our bespoke and dedicated Yacht Conveyancing service offers a buyer or seller (or both) confidence that these aspects are being dealt with by a qualified professional, operating following the ABYA Codes of Practice.

How do we find you?

You can visit our website at grabauinternational.com, reach us by email at enquiries@grabauinternational.com or call us on 01590 673715.