For Ancillary Partners.

GRS recognise the vital importance to our members of being able to provide their customers with the full range of property purchase services. Anyone who has assisted a customer in selecting and purchasing a foreign property will be well aware of the numerous requests from customers on how and where to access high quality, professional and honest advice able to meet their needs. We have sought to bring together a range of services that ensures each of these services is available through GRS. In this way GRS avoids the need for your customer to seek advice outside the GRS environment.

Whether your customer needs advice on foreign finance, currency exchange, specialist financial advice, tax, legal or insurance services, GRS provides an all-encompassing advisory service. We have selected proven and fully qualified specialists in each service sector and we constantly monitor their service delivery.

We believe GRS offers a unique and high quality system and for this reason it has been possible to attract so many prestigious organisations to partner us. It is our intention to become a dominant service provider in the cross border property marketplace and we will continuously strive to provide the most efficient support services to our members and their clients.

Ancillary Service Partners.

GRS has partnered Live Overseas who offers a host of legal management and consultancy services to assist those involved in overseas property transactions. Live Overseas manage an extensive panel of independent legal firms specialising in the major international markets where they are based. Foreign property transactions can often be concluded in entirely unregulated markets where much of the risk falls on the purchaser. Live Overseas lawyers are all strictly screened and operate to strict best-practice guidelines.
As part of the First Title group, Live Overseas have access to a wealth of experience resolving any residential or commercial real estate title concerns, whether known or unexpected. However complex the situation, specialist title policies can be issued with a minimum of delay, speeding transactions and enhancing a projects market appeal.
Live Overseas have positioned themselves as market leaders in their industry and can offer the following services to GRS members and their clients. Services include; international conveyancing services, escrow services, title insurance and IDIP (International Developer Information Pack).

GRS has partnered ACAP Group; a Dublin based organisation with additional offices in the US and the Middle East. ACAP have established themselves as a market leader in the Republic of Ireland offering the most competitive rates and efficient mortgage packages. They prefer to provide their services through long term business relationships with their customers and work accordingly.
ACAP Group is recognized for its high service standards within the international banking industry and has over 450banking relationships worldwide. Personal service and efficient customer support are vitally important to save your clients time and frustration in coping with language barriers, finding and comparing rates and understanding the terms and conditions of the various products they are offering.

GRS has partnered Conti Financial Services Ltd, the UK's leading overseas mortgage specialist can help you find the finance for your property abroad. They will help make the purchase process as safe and as hassle-free as possible. Established in 1994, Conti has helped thousands of buyers to arrange their mortgages secured on their residential property in over 45 countries.
Conti work closely with overseas lenders and property professionals helping a purchaser to buy their desired property, whether for personal use or for investment purposes. Conti's experienced teams of specialists made up of 30 staff ensure that every step of arranging a mortgage is handled promptly, efficiently and professionally. Fully independent, Conti can give clients a free pre-application mortgage calculation to help in the search for a property and have a dedicated specialist team with 25 highly trained and dedicated members of staff to offer the support and services that are needed.

GRS has partnered Property Tax International (PTI) who specialise in international tax solutions for clients looking to purchase property in foreign jurisdictions. PTI is part of the ESS Group which incorporates Taxback International and Taxback.com, an Irish owned and globally positioned Group, which has provided international tax advice since 1996.
PTI offers investors a comprehensive, worldwide service by ensuring that our clients are tax compliant in each of their resident and non-resident tax jurisdictions affected by their overseas property. PTI’s ‘state of the art’ processing centre handles over 120,000 foreign tax returns each year and employs a dedicated tax research team. PT I hold’s the most up-to-date knowledge and interpretation of the constantly changing property tax laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where it operates which ensures that all relevant changes are addressed and implemented with immediate effect.
Other services offered by PTI include; international accounting services, tax filing, tax compliancy, tax returns, tax id registration, pre-tailored tax reports and specialist advice on inheritance tax, transfer tax and advice on capital gains tax.

GRS has partnered Intasure who have a wealth of experience in the insurance industry and an enviable track record in creating pioneering new products to meet the needs of specialist markets. Intasure have built a significant international brand by offering a range of innovative insurance products and services that combine locally-tailored cover with the highest standards of industry knowledge and support.
Intasure’s insurance products combine flexibility with comprehensive cover and the reassurance of being underwritten by companies with proven track records such as Lloyds of London. All policy documents are in the English language and there is a highly trained team operating a call centre which deals with their client’s enquiries and needs.
Intasure holiday home insurance policies are designed around the needs of home owners purchasing residential property abroad. Intasure combines locally tailored insurance cover with the reassurance of English language documents and UK back-office service and support. The Intasure product offering is being developed in response to their customers needs and they currently offer cover in over 42 countries.

POINTS TO EXPAND ON GRS will manage the whole international property and related service offering for the Affinity Partner. Complete transparency with the tracking system allows all activities and progress to be monitored by the AP. Call centre and whole international offering is adfapted to suit the brand guidelines and corporate requirements of the affinity partner.