Cardenas Real Estate Agent Blog – Gran Canaria

Top Canarias, the magazine of one of the two most important newspapers of Gran Canaria “La Provincia” published an article about Cardenas Real Estate talking about their 30 years history from 1980-2010.

Read here the translation into English:

When Cárdenas Real Estate was established 30 years ago, its founder   Antonio G. de Cárdenas, was a well-known person in Arguineguín-Mogán. His flawless previous professional career, his and Rolande’s  (his wife and an official translator) knowledge of foreign languages – both had lived and worked for some years abroad – earned him an excellent reputation especially amongst the non-resident Real Estate owners in the southwest of the island. They not only turned to him to buy and sell properties, but   recommended him as well to their friends and acquaintances.

Both founders remember how often new clients reported having been told by a friend: “if you buy something in Gran Canaria, go to Cárdenas only, to nobody else”. At a time when many foreigners, who had bought their property years ago through different agents, were still waiting for their inscription in the Land Register, the name Cárdenas meant the guarantee that far from limiting its task to the mediation between seller and buyer, it would take care as well of paying the taxes and of all the paperwork until the property was registered.

Thus Cárdenas started its career hardly needing any other advertising than the clients’ word of mouth recommendations. New methods were introduced when the founders’ daughter Carolina joined the company (1996) after completing her European Business Studies in Germany and Madrid with a dissertation on the Internet in the Real Estate sector, at a time when Internet was hardly known in the Canaries. Cárdenas was doubtless one of the first Real Estate Agents with  its own website. It was much applauded from the beginning and greatly improved when Ramón Sánchez Bruhn joined the company (2001) as Marketing and IT Director.  Nowadays the website gets every year more than 180.000 visitors. Cardenas naturally takes part in the social community on the Net (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, etc.)

In 1997 Cárdenas acquired their superbly located head office in Arguineguín and its Mogán and Puerto Rico branches were opened 2000.  The staff was increased up to the present 14 members of a team that is second to none as for professionalism, linguistic competency and loyalty.

The founders of the company gradually stood aside and passed on the torch to their children: Carolina as Managing & Commercial Director) and Daniel (LLB with a postgraduate course in Tax Law) as Director of the Legal and Tax Department. .

Notwithstanding the growth of the company, the constant adaptation to the new technologies and the exemplary taking over by a second generation, Cárdenas Real Estate has remained faithful to the principles that inspired their first steps: to give their clients a professional, comprehensive and honest service and to mediate impartially and fairly between the selling and the buying parties.  The company still sets great value  - as the very first day – upon client testimonials, such as this one (April 2009), amongst hundreds received and published on  the web: “We are absolutely delighted with the attention and dedication the whole staff of Cárdenas Real Estate gave us. It was a real surprise to find truly professional people because there are not many nowadays.  We congratulate you for your services and will not hesitate to recommend you to our friends.”

Over the years of remaining day after day faithful to the company’s philosophy, Cárdenas Real Estate has achieved – in spite of several crisis that affected the sector in those years – a leading market position in the south of the island. They have received the “Best Property Agent Award” 2006-2010, granted by Europe’s leading property magazine BELLEVUE.  Cárdenas Real Estate thank their clients for their confidence during those 30 years.

More testimonials here

By Cardenas News

Our clients Malcolm Catesby and Christine McCann have benn interviewed by a reporter of the well known magazine Freedom4Sale. There they tell about how they came to Gran Canaria and about their experience finding their new home abroad. It is a very nice and interesting article. Buying property in Gran Canaria.

Source: Freedom4Sale Magazine

—– Original Message —–
From: Mika. L.
To: Inmobiliaria Cardenas – Axel Kubisch
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:03 PM
Subject: Recommendation

Hi Axel,

This email is to confirm that I was very pleased with the
professionalism and hard efforts of Inmobiliaria Cardenas as a firm and
especially pleased with working with you. The sale of of our finca in
the worst financial downturn since the 1930s went very well because of
your tireless efforts and going the extra mile by working weekends
etc. I would be happy to recommend your services to anyone wishing to
sell their property in Gran Canaria.

With best regards,

Mika. L.

Cardenas Real Estate wins after 2006, 2007, 2008 now as well in 2009 the prestigious Bellevue Best Property Agents award.

The aim of the Bellevue Best Property Agents initiative is to support and encourage the highest of standards within the real estate industry, throughout the world.

Their logo conveys the same message wherever you see it, whether it’s on the Internet or on an estate agents wall – it says exceptional quality.

This award is only valid for one year. Best property agents need to continuously prove their worth as they are reassessed at the end of it, for further certification.

If there are any material irregularities or justifiable complaints about the agent, Bellevue will immediately remove the agent from the list, and to forbid use of the logo.

Bellevue are continually looking for professional, trustworthy agents and developers, in order to enhance their list and ultimately make the whole buying and selling process easier for both buyer and seller.

By Cardenas News

De: Paul Guinness
Enviado el: martes, 07 de octubre de 2008 14:01
Para: ramon@cardenas-grancanaria.com
CC: theresa@cardenas-grancanaria.com
Asunto: Thank you

Dear Ramon
 
I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say how impressed I have been with Cardenas Real Estate, in connection with my renting of an apartment in Pueblo Mogan. Not only are we delighted with the apartment, the service from Cardenas in general - and from Theresa in particular – has been nothing short of superb.
 
Theresa not only went out of her way to negotiate the lease for the apartment with regards to furniture, etc., her advice when it came to opening a new bank account in Mogan and arranging a new phone line with Telefonica was invaluable.
 
I feel strongly that when I am pleased with the services of a company (which, sadly, isn’t always the case), I should make it known. So thank you, Ramon, for what has been an extremely efficient service so far – and for providing customers with somebody as helpful and professional as Theresa. I can’t praise her too highly.
 
Kind regards
 
Paul Guinness

Press released published by the magazine Klubnytt of the Norwegian Club Gran Canaria on April 2008.

Read scanned article here.

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Cardenas Real Estate wins prestigious Bellevue Best Property Agents award for third consecutive year.

The aim of the Bellevue Best Property Agents initiative is to support and encourage the highest of standards within the real estate industry, throughout the world.

Their logo conveys the same message wherever you see it, whether it’s on the Internet or on an estate agents wall – it says exceptional quality.

This award is only valid for one year. Best property agents need to continuously prove their worth as they are reassessed at the end of it, for further certification.

If there are any material irregularities or justifiable complaints about the agent, Bellevue will immediately remove the agent from the list, and to forbid use of the logo.

Bellevue are continually looking for professional, trustworthy agents and developers, in order to enhance their list and ultimately make the whole buying and selling process easier for both buyer and seller.

By Cardenas News

Cardenas Real Estate                          Brian & Barbara, Manchester, England    
Av. Tomas R. Bosch,
6-Apt.
Costa Rica, 1
35130 Puerto Rico,
Gran Canaria                                                                
España

2nd February 2008.
 
Reference: Purchase of Apartment, Puerto Rico.
 
F.A.O. Leonor Martin Sanchez (Directora Sucursal)
 
Dear Leonor.
 
We hope you and your family are keeping well. We wish to thank you personally for your professional way in which you helped us to purchase our much-wanted apartment in Puerto Rico.

From our first meeting we knew we were in good hands to oversee all the important things from setting up a bank account and organizing all the legal aspects including our visit to the Notary, all of which could not have been made easier and more assuring without your experience and friendly manor in overseeing things.
Your continuous effort was second to none in finding our apartment, we just could not see where you got your energy from. You are and always will be an absolute “Star” in our minds.

We would also like to say that Cardenas Real Estate will always be a recommendation from us to friends or in fact anyone we meet who is looking to buy property in Gran Canaria.
We just cannot thank you and all of the staff enough.
Looking forward to see you again week commencing 17th March 2008.
 
Best Regards
 
Yours sincerely
 
Brian & Barbara (Manchester, England)

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