Keys, held properly
Your keys stay at our office, not in a box outside your gate. Nobody goes onto the property without us knowing, and you get told who was there and why.
Our services
Property management in S'Agaró
S'Agaró was designed as a single thing in 1924 and it has been looked after carefully ever since. A house here is not a house that tolerates a subcontractor turning up unannounced, and the way we work in S'Agaró reflects that.
What it covers
A garden city, and what it asks of an owner
In 1924 the industrialist Josep Ensesa and the architect Rafael Masó began building a noucentista garden city on the headland between the beach of Sant Pol and the cove of Sa Conca. Masó built around twenty houses before his death in 1935, along with the stairs, squares, pergolas and viewpoints that hold the place together, and the first Hostal de la Gavina. Roughly 1,700 people live in S'Agaró now.
The result is the most architecturally coherent address on this coast, and coherence has to be maintained. Stonework, ironwork, planting and painted render were all part of one design, and they age at their own rates. The Camí de Ronda that runs the headland between Sant Pol and Sa Conca has been listed as a cultural asset of national interest since 1995. None of this is a reason to be nervous about owning here, but it is a reason not to hand the keys to whoever answered the phone first.
We hold keys, inspect on an agreed rhythm, add a storm check when you want one, and use our own team for the pool, the garden, the cleaning and the repairs. Owners here usually want two things beyond the ordinary: discretion about who is on the property and when, and someone who will not let a small piece of stone or iron sit until it becomes a large one.
Where we work
The parts of S'Agaró
S'Agaró is small enough to walk across and still has clearly different parts, which is one of the things the original plan got right.
S'Agaró Vell
The original garden city, running from the beach of Sant Pol up to the viewpoint square, built to Masó's noucentista design from the mid-1920s onwards. Stone, wrought iron, render and mature planting, all of it designed together. Maintenance here is about keeping pace with the fabric rather than modernising it.
S'Agaró Nou
The later residential streets that grew inland and around the original core. More conventional villas, private pools and real gardens, most of them second homes used through the season and closed for the rest of it.
Sa Conca
The cove at the north end of the headland, where the Camí de Ronda comes out. Houses close to the water with the maintenance list that goes with that: salt, wind, and terraces that take the weather from the open sea.
Sant Pol beach at the southern end belongs to Sant Feliu de Guíxols, and we work both sides of that boundary, so nothing gets dropped because of which municipality a house is technically in.
What's included
What we take care of in S'Agaró
Inspections that look at the fabric
Stone, iron, render and terrace surfaces as well as the usual water, power and damp. On this coast a small crack in render becomes a repointing job within a season or two if nobody catches it.
Garden, pool and repairs
Our own team, working to a schedule you set. Mature planting here is part of the design and gets cut accordingly rather than tidied into a different shape.
Practical
What is worth knowing about S'Agaró
- The Camí de Ronda
- The coastal path between Sant Pol and Sa Conca has been protected as a cultural asset of national interest since 1995. It runs past a good number of the properties, which is part of the pleasure and part of the reason discretion matters.
- The 1924 plan
- Ensesa and Masó designed the public spaces as carefully as the houses. What that means in practice is that changes to what faces the street are a slower conversation here than elsewhere.
- Salt and exposure
- Anything on the seaward side takes the weather from open water. Ironwork, hinges, outdoor lighting and pool plant all need looking at more often than the same items would need three streets inland.
- Neighbours
- S'Agaró empties out of season more than it looks like it would. An empty road is not a watched road, whatever the address.
- Sant Feliu next door
- The town is the practical side of living here: the shops, the services and the year-round life. It is a few minutes south, past the torrent that marks the boundary.
- Discretion
- We do not put a van sign on your gate, discuss your property, or send people we have not sent before without telling you first. Say so if you want it tighter still.
Good to know
Questions owners in S'Agaró ask
Do you work on houses in the original Masó part of S'Agaró?
Yes. The upkeep there is more about matching what is already built than about installing something new, and we scope the work that way. Anything touching the fabric gets discussed with you in detail before it is quoted.
How discreet is the service?
As discreet as you want. We hold the keys ourselves, use our own team rather than a rotating list of subcontractors, and tell you in advance who will be on the property. Nothing about your house is discussed with anyone else.
Do you cover Sa Conca and the Sant Pol side as well?
Yes, both, including the Sant Feliu de Guíxols side of the boundary. The municipal line runs through the middle of what most people think of as one area, and it makes no difference to how we work.
Can you look after a house we only use a few weeks a year?
That is most of what we do. The house is inspected on a rhythm you set, opened and prepared before you arrive, and closed properly after you leave rather than left to sit as you left it.
Nearby
We look after houses in these towns too
Other things we do
Next step
Quiet, careful management in S'Agaró
Tell us about the property and how you use it. We will come back with a plan, a price and the name of the person who will actually be looking after it.