The services offered by Accom goes beyond just helping our clients buying or constructing a property in Spain. Apart from our after sales services such as advice about settling down in Spain, finding a school for the children, learning Spanish, etc. we know that many of our clients are looking for help starting up a business or at a later stage renting out or selling their property.

Through our experience in the property sector Accom can advice you about renting out or selling your property and we can also help you with all the bureaucratic and legal matters of setting up our buying an existing business in Spain. If you have any questions or will like further information about how we can help you please fill in the short form in the Help & Advice section.

Property Management
If you are thinking about renting out your property there are much more to it than just finding a rental agent. First of all you will need to know all the financial, tax and legal matters that will have influence when you rent out a property. Apart from this there are many initiatives you can take yourself to rent out the property and marketing that can be done to secure a good rental income.

In Accom we can help you with both the technical and the practical matters of renting out your property including:

- Advice about tax and financial matters,
- Help with drawing up or revising rental contracts,
- Advice about renting out a property (short term-long term),
- Rental marketing including adverts, help finding rental agents, web site marketing,
- Help finding people to do the maintenance (cleaning, repairs).

Selling a Property
Many property owners wrongly think that by offering their property to one or two estate agents they will secure a fast trouble free sale. Things like the agents commission earned, their pricing advice, marketing efforts done, client reach, will all have influence on how long time it will take to sell your property.
Apart from finding the right agent to sell your property it is important that you have a good legal and unbiased advisor at your disposal. This how you will secure that you get the right price for your property and there are also a lot of paper work and taxes that needs to be prepared.

In Accom we can help you sell your property by offering:

- Professional unbiased advice about pricing the property,
- Presenting the property to the best estate agents available,
- Marketing advice about selling the property without an agent,
- Prepare legal matters and paperwork needed to complete the sale including private contract stating terms & condition of the sale, assistance at the notary, payment of capital gain tax.

Set Up a Business in Spain
To set up your own company in Spain is a complicated task especially if you don't fully dominate the Spanish language or know the Spanish way of life. There are many things you need to take into consideration and both bureaucratic and legal barriers are also very common.

In Accom we can help you with all the elements of setting up a new business or branch including:

- Setting up a Spanish company (S.L. or S.A),
- Setting up a Branch in Spain of a foreign company,
- Help finding an office wherefrom you can operate your business,
- Apply for work and residence permits for foreign workers,
- Arrange the obligatory social security for both the company and the employees,
- Drawing up employee contracts and presenting these to the Spanish authorities.

Buy Existing Business in Spain
If you are thinking about opening a bar, a restaurant, a shop or any other business where you don't necessarily need to start the company from cero it can in many cases be a good idea to buy an existing business.
The advantage of buying an existing business in Spain is that many licenses, work contracts, permits etc. are given directly to the company and doesn't expire just because you change the ownership of the business. This can save the new owner a lot of time and resources not having to wait for the necessary licenses and contracts for employees.

If you are looking to buy an existing business Accom offer you:

- Help finding a suited business for sale,
- Advice about Freehold Vs. Leasing a business,
- Secure that the business is free of any charges and that there are no debts or other liabilities against the business,
- Go through all the papers of the business (licenses, employee contracts etc.) to see if they are in order and up to date,
- Review or draw up the private purchase contract as well as negotiate with the seller or his solicitor about payments, supplies, handover etc.,
- Assist you at the Notary for signing the title deed or we can sign on your behalf with a power of attorney,
- File in all the paper work including registering the business at the business registry (registro mercantil), arranging payments and declaration of the property transfer tax, stamp duty, inform Bank of Spain on your inversion (if necessary).