As a business owner, you often meet people that you enjoy working with. More rarely, you meet individuals that you genuinely enjoy getting to know, with a business relationship turning into a friendship.
This is precisely what happened when Chris White of boutique estate agency Ideal Homes Portugal and Peter Emerson Jones of The Emerson Group first ran across each other in the property sector.
Peter Jones has been in the trade for decades, having founded the Emerson Group in 1959. His company is now one of the biggest privately owned property development companies in the UK, specialising in leisure, residential and commercial developments. One of the company's three main divisions is Jones Homes, which builds superior residential properties in the UK and in Portugal through Jones Homes Portugal. Reportedly worth over £700 million and approaching his 80th birthday, Peter Emerson Jones really has seen it all after a career spanning seven decades in the property sector.
Chris White, Founding Director of Ideal Homes Portugal, is delighted to have forged a friendship with Jones and now the pair is seeking to use their combined talents to benefit those looking to purchase property in Portugal. Chris comments,
"I am thrilled to announce the new partnership between Jones Homes and Ideal Homes Portugal, which will see the Algarve opened up to UK buyers like never before. Finding and purchasing your dream second home in Portugal is now easier and swifter than it has ever been and I am delighted that Jones Homes and Ideal Homes Portugal are working together to make that happen."
The duo exhibited together at A Place in the Sun in Manchester earlier this month, the city where Peter Jones was educated and an area where the Emerson Group has built some 4,000 homes over the years.
In Portugal, the focus is on the southernmost Algarve region, which is popular with holidaymakers, second home owners and expats looking for sea, sunshine and a relaxed pace of life. Golf properties are a speciality, with a delightful, four bedroom, south facing villa with pool in Quinta do Lago available for €850,000.
For those who prefer the beach to the golf course, the Algarve has some fabulous properties to offer. Smart townhouses just a few metres from the sea in Benagil cost just €225,000, including air conditioning and satellite dish.
Golf, beach or inland, whatever buyers prefer they can now turn to Ideal Homes Portugal and Jones Homes to make their Portuguese property dreams come true.
For further details call Ideal Homes Portugal on 0800 133 7644 or +351 289 513 434, email enquiries@idealhomesportugal.com or visit www.idealhomesportugal.com.
