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LIVING IN SOTOGRANDE, A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE IN THE COSTA DEL SOL
Real estate services of exclusive professionalism 
Based on a family company with over 25 years experience in the real estate sector, Holmes Property Sales shows its professionalism day by day as a real estate agency specialising in sales and operating in Sotogrande. Miguel Preysler, along with his partner Ian Bateman, manages the real estate agency with a team of eleven experts that function exclusively in the area of Sotogrande and dedicate themselves to offering the sale of the chalets and apartments that are most suited to the needs and tastes of their clients. "We are experts in the properties on sale in Sotogrande. Many real estate agencies try to cover all of the areas in the Costa del Sol, but in Holmes we confine ourselves to what we know about, namely Sotogrande. That is why we are so successful at our job", says Miguel.
Also, when it comes to offering their services, it is highly important for the managers of Holmes Property to maintain the concept with which Sotogrande was created at first: its identity as a singular place where people live in an atmosphere of tranquillity, surrounded by nature and with a varied leisure offer. Ben Bateman points out that the company aims to maintain this idea of Sotogrande, not as a village or a city, but as an exclusive complex, in contrast with other agencies that want to change it to satisfy their own interests. Holmes does not regard itself as merely dealing in commerce. "When we offer our sales in services in Sotogrande, we are also committed to maintaining the history of this residential area without changing its lifestyle".
Holmes Property Sales, the most solid company in Sotogrande's real estate market, offers the client the possibility to purchase any property on sale in Sotogrande, both new promotions and resales, without this entailing any additional cost to the purchaser, but with the certainty of receiving the most complete information and postsales service.
Although the services offered by Holmes are mostly centred on sales, its real estate offer includes other services as well, helping the new owners to settle comfortably in the area. Holmes Property Sales can rent the client's property out to third parties and give him or advice wherever needed. As Ben has commented, "we hope that everyone who comes to live here feels comfortable and love Sotogrande as much as we do".
From now on, the major objective of the real estate agency Holmes Property Sales will be that of maintaining the same level of service it has offered for over 25 years. "Our goal will be that of maintaining Holmes Property Sales at the highest service level in Sotogrande, always ahead f the competition". This means that the plans of these connoisseurs of Sotogrande do not include the possibility of offering real estate services in other areas than Sotogrande and its immediate surroundings.
Holmes Property Sales has been marked by continuous growth over the years
Holmes Property Sales has almost 30 years experience, 20 since the incorporation in 1986 of the agency's current managers, Miguel Preysler and Ian Bateman, leading to its configuration as a family company.
In 1978 Miguel Preysler was appointed general manager of Sotogrande, which office he held until 1983. It is during this period that he met Ian Bateman, who in the late 1970s travelled from England to Sotogrande, where he bought an apartment in the complex known as Casas Cortijo along with five friends. At the time the complex was disabled, Ian, with the help of his English travel agency Holmes Travel, renting packages of the apartment, which included rent a car services, the trip and green fees of the Gold Course Las Aves (the current Valderrama Golf Course). With this offer, Ian found himself with an excess of reservations, which is why he started to look for more and more apartments within the same Sotogrande complex, and on the basis of this he created Holmes Promociones S.A. 
Miguel, who was the general manager of Sotogrande at the time, has two hotels and Ian, meanwhile, continued to rent out Casas Cortijo next to Las Aves. Miguel contacted Ian with the proposal that he become the manager of the hotel business of Sotogrande, thus offering hotel rooms apart from apartments in his company. Thus, Ian collaborated with Miguel with the purpose of increasing the hotel's occupancy rate, which increased from 30 to 80%, so as to thus get to sell the hotels after one year and a half of joint cooperation. This experience meant the beginning of a friendship that subsequently led to the creation of Holmes Property Sales S. L.
Now, both of them are in agreement that the pioneering agency in real estate services in Sotogrande, Holmes Property Sales, should restrict itself to Sotogrande and the company is trying, day by day, to create a niche in the residential area. "Sotogrande is a place that Ian and I know both inside and outside, thanks to our having been part of Sotogrande S. A, thus giving us a privileged perception of the deepest recesses of the area and distinguishing us from the competition". Holmes Property Sales will son turn 30, and it hopes to last far longer. "In 2009 we will have been working together more than many married couples," concludes Miguel laughingly.
By Mirey Haralampieva
Holmes Properties Sales, S.L.
Galerias Paniagua 21, Sotogrande
San Roque (Cádiz)
Tel: 956795340
Fax: 956795452
E-mail: info@holmesotogrande.com
Web: www.holmesotogrande.com
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