Buying a home in Spain is probably one of the most important investments most of us will ever make. Whether you are looking for a holiday home in the sun, a retirement home in the sun, or a place to work in the sun - doing your homework is essential.

At the moment the market in the €100-€300k is fairly active but the €300-€500k is pretty flat so there are bargains to be had, if you are prepared to have a look and make an offer.

Our mission is to help you and guide you through the buying and selling process in Spain. Unlike the UK, we the Agent, deal with most of the conveyancing and utilities transfers. Buying a property in Spain can be easy or fraught with danger. We try and make it easy for you.

Whether you are looking to buy a beachside villa, a Finca in the country, a city apartment, a golf resort development or a property for investment, we have a property to suit you. If we don’t then we will search out a property that meets your specifications.

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This is a little about us.

Blue Ocean Estates and our sister company Spanish Luxury Property, were formed in August 2009 by myself, Robert and my wife Laurian. We started the business by accident really. Laurian’s mother was trying to sell her lovely villa in Beniarbeig a small town near to the costal resort of Denia. Laurian's father had passed away a few years earlier and her mother was lonely and wanted to return to the UK. With the market in decline she was finding it difficult to sell and fell into the hands of an unscrupulous, freelance, so-called agent. Having bought and sold properties several times in Spain and the UK, we recognised the signs immediately and stepped in to protect her. Unfortunately, at first she was reluctant to discontinue using this agent and remained hopeful of an imminent and promised sale.

We formed the SL (Limited) Company, Strong-arm Investments S.L. in January 2010.

I (Robert) am a retired procurement consultant, more used to working around the world in the Oil Industry, set about designing a simple website to promote the sale of the house in Beniarbeig, which is situated in the Orba Valley. An ideal location within easy reach of the coast and seaside resorts of Els Poblets, Denia and Javea. This website caught the eye of both potential buyers and other people trying to sell their properties in the Orba and Jalon valleys. So pretty soon we had quite a portfolio of properties and the business grew from there. As time went on we convinced Laurian's mother that the promised sale was bogus and to dismiss the equally bogus agent, which she did. This freed us up to market the property and we found a buyer within two months, completing the sale in just two weeks. This was in May 2010 and by this time we were already so busy that Laurian had become involved full time as the company finance and administration director which suits her as she had been finance director for companies in the UK and overseas.

We continue to expand our business based on sound ethics and principals. Most of our owners and clients come from referrals and we work very hard to find you that dream home and that illusive buyer. Putting the two together is not easy, but we do what other agents' don’t do, and that is stay true to our beliefs and our principals of honesty and integrity.

We look forward to meeting you and to be of service to you.

Robert and Laurian