Sell Property in Spain (www.sellpropertyinspain.com) is a well-respected and highly successful estate agency currently operating along the Costa Blanca and Costa Calida. Established seven years with over 120 well-price properties on their books, the company has ridden the recent “storms” in the Spanish property market with remarkable resilience.

Having said that, they were acutely aware that the Spanish market-place was losing potential investors to other countries as buyers feared being caught up in legal wrangles due to land and property ownership issues. Paul Cox of Sell Property in Spain says, “The launch of Safe Purchase Spain (SPS) will make a considerable difference to the Spanish market-place. Buyers will realise that if they purchase a property through an officially accredited Safe Purchase partner, the rights to their title deeds will be covered for up to 20 years from the first day of ownership.

What Ian Hawkins of SPS has devised, is a system of protection for buyers that in the entire history of the industry has never been done before. He stands to revolutionise the way properties are bought and sold in Spain. The minute I was approached my reaction was positive. This is something that the industry could use straight away and provide much needed positive press. We are listed on the SPS web site as an officially Certified Safe Purchase agent and all the properties on our books now have the backing of the SPS Guarantee”

Backed by one of Spain’s largest residential insurance companies, Caser Seguros, the Guarantee not only provides 20 years protection based on the 130 year old US model of title insurance but up to 360,000 euros in compensation for monetary losses plus free home contents insurance for 12 months, annual savings of up to 25% on home, health, life, car and funeral insurances, guaranteed exchange rates and a savings on bank charges with Moneycorp plus preferential advertising rates on www.holidaylettings.co.uk .

Using the supreme Code of Ethics used by the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) inc. Federation of Overseas Property Developers and Consultants (FOPDAC), Ian Hawkins, MD at Safe Purchase Spain says, “We are in the process of expanding our network of estate agency partners and plan to quickly roll this out across the Spanish Costas and the islands. We already have English, German, Dutch, Spanish and even Danish partners and their commitment shows just how necessary an initiative like Safe Purchase is.”