Press Release

Date: Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Lucas Fox International Properties Opens New Property Division: Country & Sporting Estates
Lucas Fox today launches a bespoke country & sporting estates property service. A new department has been created to offer the best selection of equestrian, hunting and country sporting luxury estates in the Iberian Peninsula. The companys rationale for the new service is to respond to increased client demand for large high-end country properties. The agency has appointed a country and equestrian property specialist, Charlotte Rodriguez-Banks to oversee the new division.
The agency proactively identified a niche group of international clients who are actively looking for solid investments in Spain and interested in country lifestyle pursuits. Having identified the trend the agency followed up on client and vendor enquiries and concluded that there were two main buyer types. One category of buyer looked at enjoying the property with recreational land assets and the other looked to convert the propertys land assets into professional sporting and country lifestyle businesses. Alex Vaughan, Director of Lucas Fox summarized the companys intentions for the forthcoming year with the new division, The new country and sporting estate offering enables us to service a very interesting client profile and aggressively grow into new regions throughout the Spanish peninsula. We are proud to be the first agency to offer a specific country estate portfolio throughout Spain. We already had a strong portfolio of properties in Catalua and over the last two quarters we have further expanded into Andaluca, Valencia and Mallorca. By the end of 2012 we plan to offer the widest selection of country and sporting estate properties in Spain . The real estate agency has quickly acquired instructions on a number of superb properties over the previous few months and plans to immediately market its product range. Anthony Leaton, Marketing Director of Lucas Fox stated, We launch the new service with approximately 500M EUR of properties in our portfolio and we have already attracted a significant level of enquiries when we had soft launched the service. Now we are heavily promoting this new service via all communication channels. Leaton concluded on the companys marketing strategy, In the next few weeks, we will be producing a market report outlining the strength of Spanish country real-estate. This will interest residential buyers and commercial investors . cont/..

Lucas Fox International Properties Opens New Property Division: Country & Sporting Estates / 2 Charlotte Rodriguez-Banks, has been appointed to spear-head the new department. She enjoys over 25 years high-end luxury real estate experience, and is well known within the country pursuit community for her equestrian, hunting and sporting expertise. Rodriguez-Banks added, We are kick starting the new service with an exceptionally strong property portfolio of residential, investment and commercial properties for country pursuit enthusiasts. Recent instructions on exclusive properties such as the Montenmedio Golf and Country Club and Mas El Castell are a testament to the companys strength in attracting highend commercial and residential estate vendors to Lucas Fox . Vaughan, summarized the new appointment, The department, headed by Charlotte, is in line with our company policy of offering high quality staff expertise to offer our best property search and advice .

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Alex Vaughan Director, Lucas Fox Tel: +34 933 562 989 Email: Info@lucasfox.com
Notes to Editors: The Company: Founded in 2005, Lucas Fox specialises in offering quality luxury properties, a professional approach and a high level of service. The company has offices in Barcelona, the Costa Brava, Mallorca and Ibiza. Services Further information on Lucas Foxs Country & Sporting Estates service may be found here

Anthony Leaton Marketing Director, Lucas Fox Tel: +34 933 562 989 Email: info@lucasfox.com