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At Porto Marana – Punta Marana in Golfo Aranci, Sardinia, yacht brokers Porto Marana – Punta Marana from European Yacht Brokers can act for you as the seller, as the buyer or, by written agreement, for both. Tell us which service you want, and our Olbia head office will connect you with the local broker, who can visit your boat quickly and give a valuation free of charge. Our commission is just 5%, and your yacht is advertised on over 20 international platforms, including YachtWorld, by brokers who speak six languages.
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Which yacht broker do you need at Porto Marana – Punta Marana?
If you are selling, you need a broker who works for you: someone to value, list and advertise the yacht and bring you offers. If your plan is to buy, you need a broker on your side of the table: someone to search the market, compare boats and negotiate. Prefer a single point of contact for everything? A full-service broker can handle the whole transaction and, if it is agreed in writing, act for both parties. We offer all three at Porto Marana – Punta Marana.
This is our specialist field, and we make it easy: a free valuation, a commission of just 5%, over 20 international platforms including YachtWorld, six languages and a local broker who can reach any Italian marina, including Porto Marana – Punta Marana, in less than sixty minutes. Tell us whether you want to sell, buy or have one broker for both, and we will take it from there.
Here is what you get from us as a seller at Porto Marana – Punta Marana: a free, evidence-based valuation, a listing prepared with photographs and full particulars, advertising on over 20 international platforms including YachtWorld, replies to every enquiry and arranged viewings. We charge 5% and spell out in the agreement exactly which services are included.
Bringing a yacht to market is the listing broker’s job, and the owner makes the appointment. The broker may help set the asking price, collect specifications and photographs, prepare the listing, advertise the yacht, respond to enquiries and arrange viewings. Check that the listing agreement explains whether it is exclusive or open, how long it runs, what commission applies and which services are included.
Not every seller wants a full service. Some ask only for listing and marketing: the broker advertises the yacht, passes any offer to the owner and does not take responsibility for negotiating or managing the rest of the sale. That can be a properly defined service, but it does not describe every seller’s broker. Sale guidance often covers the work after an offer too: Horizon Yachts International describes the deposit, survey and sea-trial stages, and YachtWorld notes that a broker may arrange a survey and sea trial.
Be clear, before signing, about what the broker takes on. Negotiating price and conditions, preparing or explaining paperwork, tracking deadlines and contingencies, arranging survey and sea-trial access, coordinating closing, payment and transfer documents: each is either included or it is not, and any that are excluded may call for separate professional help.
The broker who lists the yacht represents the seller under the listing relationship. A buyer approaching that broker should ask whom the broker acts for and whether to appoint a separate representative. A buyer may also be introduced by another broker through co-brokerage, with the firms sharing commission according to their agreement, so the seller should confirm how that affects the fee and service under their own contract. Read it as a seller’s listing broker with a deliberately limited scope rather than a general definition, whether the yacht is at Porto Marana – Punta Marana or elsewhere.
Sources: Horizon Yachts International: Guide to Selling Your Yacht; YachtWorld: Buying from a Yacht Broker
You do not need to find the right yacht alone. European Yacht Brokers helps buyers at Porto Marana – Punta Marana shortlist boats, ask the right questions of listing brokers, negotiate, and organise the survey and sea trial, with a local broker nearby and a team that speaks your language.
Buyers appoint a broker to act for them in finding and buying a yacht. Work begins with the buyer’s plans, preferred type, size, budget, location and priorities. The broker researches the market, identifies possible boats, asks the listing brokers for information, reviews the records that exist and helps the buyer compare options. A number of buyer brokers also preview yachts or arrange remote viewings, which helps the client narrow the field before travelling.
When the buyer has found a yacht, the broker can help prepare and negotiate the offer, explain the steps and deadlines and liaise with the seller’s listing broker. Expect a purchase agreement, deposit and escrow arrangements, an independent marine survey, specialist inspections, a sea trial and further discussion once the inspections are done. The broker helps coordinate these steps and keeps communication moving, but the surveyor assesses the yacht, and the broker does not replace an independent technical inspection.
Some yacht brokerages publish what their buyer services include: research, negotiation, survey coordination, sea-trial arrangements and assistance with closing documentation. At Curtis Stokes & Associates that means helping buyers research and preview yachts, prepare offers, negotiate and find surveyors and documentation support; HMY describes coordinating survey and sea-trial stages, post-survey discussions and closing. Since services vary, buyers should ask what the broker will handle and what remains theirs.
Payment varies. A buyer’s broker may be paid an agreed share of the commission through a cooperating listing broker, or the buyer may owe a fee under a separate representation agreement. Before the search begins, the buyer should have the fee, duration, scope of authority and any exclusivity in writing. The result is a dedicated representative across a wider search, even when the yacht you choose is listed by another brokerage. Buyers looking at yachts around Porto Marana – Punta Marana should ask these questions before appointing anyone.
Sources: Curtis Stokes & Associates: Buyer Brokerage Service; HMY: How Brokers De-Risk a Used Yacht Purchase
Full service means we take care of the details: valuation, listing, viewings, offers, contract, deposit, survey, sea trial and closing, with our Olbia head office and a local broker behind you at Porto Marana – Punta Marana. If you want us to act for both parties, the written agreement says so and explains how it works.
Full service describes a broker who can look after the whole sale. After the first conversation with the owner the work may include assessing the yacht and asking price, photographs and particulars, advertising, enquiries, viewings and the communication of offers, then helping both parties move an accepted offer through the contract, deposit, survey, sea trial and closing. The broker may also coordinate documentation, escrow, delivery and other details. Set the precise service out in the listing and sale documents.
Here the broker also works directly with the buyer and acts for both sides. The Yacht Brokers Association of America calls this dual agency: a single broker representing both parties in one transaction. Do not confuse it with a listing broker who assists a buyer but is still appointed by the seller. A buyer should have the broker explain the relationship before an offer is made.
Consider what each party wants. The seller generally wants the strongest price and terms; the buyer wants a suitable yacht at a fair price and must make informed decisions about its condition. A broker representing both is not two independent representatives and cannot privately negotiate for each side as though it were. The YBAA stresses transparency and careful handling of confidential information. Legal rules and permitted arrangements vary by jurisdiction, so rely on the written agreement and applicable local advice.
The commission is often dealt with in the seller’s listing agreement, but payment arrangements vary, so a buyer should check whether any separate fee is owed. Remember that full-service describes the range of work, while dual agency describes whom the broker represents. A broker can offer extensive transaction support without representing both sides.
European Yacht Brokers directs its Italian operations from Olbia, with brokers serving coastal regions and many marinas throughout the country. Start with the Olbia team, who will connect you with the broker responsible for your area. The regional network lets us arrange for a broker to reach any Italian marina in under an hour; the local broker can arrange a visit to your boat and provide a valuation at no charge.
Whichever Italian coast your boat lies on, there is a European Yacht Brokers delegate or agent in the region: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Marche, Molise, Apulia, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany or Veneto. For Porto Marana – Punta Marana in Golfo Aranci, that means the broker for Sardinia, who can meet customers and see their boats quickly, with Olbia coordinating.
Our Sales Mandate and Evaluation Sheet is where a valuation starts. We use the boat’s details and condition, study the market and prepare a precise valuation based on evidence, informed by sales data for boats worldwide over the past three years. It is an assessment of likely market value, not a guarantee of the price the boat will eventually sell for.
Your regional broker does the work once you appoint us: finding the buyer or the right boat, and guiding you through the transaction to completion and the successful transfer of funds. Boats go onto over 20 platforms throughout Europe, giving them visibility beyond Italy, and an international audience can often help secure a stronger price than relying on local demand alone. With six languages spoken among our brokers, we can connect you with someone who speaks yours.
Selling or buying at Porto Marana – Punta Marana? Knowing the marina and Golfo Aranci helps both sides. For the seller it shows what attracts buyers to a boat kept here; for the buyer it shows what to expect around the berth. Here is what is known about the marina and about Golfo Aranci, in Sardinia.
Porto Marana – Punta Marana provides 320 berths for boats up to 14 metres in length. The marina offers services including electricity, water, toilets, showers, Wi-Fi, fuel, waste and used-oil collection, and parking. A 70-tonne crane facilitates lifting and launching, supported by the Porto Marana boatyard. Technical assistance is available through authorised Mercury and Volvo Penta workshops. Additional facilities include a diving centre, boat rental, restaurant, bar, hotel, supermarket, car rental, taxi service, and ATM. The fuel station operates from 08:30 to 12:30 and 14:00 to 18:00.
Golfo Aranci is situated in Sassari / Gallura, Sardinia, with Porto Marana – Punta Marana positioned by its operator between Porto Rotondo and Golfo Aranci. The marina lies 5 km from Golfo Aranci and 7 km from Olbia port and airport. It is adjacent to Marinella beach, described as a white-sand beach with clear water. The location offers access to both the sheltered waters of Golfo Aranci and the surrounding coastal landscape, providing a setting valued for its proximity to these points and natural surroundings.
Porto Marana provides berths for 320 boats with a maximum length of 16 metres and a maximum draft of 2 metres; VHF communication operates on channel 9. The facilities include electricity, water, toilets, showers, Wi-Fi, fuel available between 08:30–12:30 and 14:00–18:00, waste and used-oil collection, parking, and a 70-ton crane. Services extend to boatyard repairs, mechanical assistance, storage, a diving centre, boat rental, a restaurant, bar, hotel, supermarket, car rental, taxi service, and ATM. Nearby, beaches and coves can be explored around Punta Marana; the adjacent Marinella beach offers a pizzeria restaurant along with jet ski and dinghy hire as noted by the local Yachting Club Vela Blu.
The European Yacht Brokers archive lists boats for sale Porto Marana – Punta Marana as local brokers add and verify them. A buyer’s broker can look further than the published list, and an owner can put a boat in front of buyers searching around Golfo Aranci and in nearby ports.
Porto Marana is described as an easy and safe harbour suitable for boats up to 15 metres with a draft no greater than 2 metres, although its specification panel allows a maximum length of 16 metres. Punta Marana’s landing area is protected from the mistral wind, featuring a rock-and-sand seabed with depths between 0.8 and 2 metres. From Porto Marana, vessels typically cruise to the islands of Soffi and Mortorio as well as the Maddalena Archipelago.
In addition, Punta Marana offers quick access to locations such as Porto Cervo, Porto Rotondo and the Tavolara Protected Marine Area. Sailing activity generally takes place during the main season at Porto Marana – Punta Marana, catering for a variety of coastal destinations within the region.
Call or WhatsApp the Olbia team on +39 351 949 3538 and ask for the broker covering Golfo Aranci: a free valuation for sellers, a search for buyers and one point of contact for both.
Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (OLB) lies 16 km from Porto Marana – Punta Marana, a drive of about 19 minutes. The nearest railway access is Marinella Sardegna station, situated 1.7 km away by road. Travelling from regional or national locations is therefore facilitated by rail to Marinella Sardegna station or by air via Olbia Airport.
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The listing agreement should say whether it is exclusive or open, how long it lasts and what commission is payable. Exclusivity is not always required, and we decide it case by case.
Some buyer brokers preview yachts or arrange remote viewings so the client can narrow the choice before travelling. Ask what service is included.
The commission is often addressed in the seller’s listing agreement, but payment arrangements vary, so a buyer should check whether any separate fee is owed.
You start with the Olbia team, who connect you with the broker responsible for your area.
We take care of it. We organise the contract, the legal side and the transfer of ownership, so you have nothing to do.
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Check maritime mediation registration, qualifications, security and the person handling your transaction.
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Distinguish mediation from selling, identify the contracting seller and check fees and warranty rules.
Owners or buyers interested in a yacht near Porto Marana – Punta Marana are invited to contact the European Yacht Brokers Olbia team, who will connect them with the responsible broker. Please provide details such as model, year, location and condition for owners, or size, budget and type of yacht sought for buyers; for example: for an owner a 2015 sailing yacht of about 12 metres, and for a buyer a sailing yacht of about 40 feet with a budget of up to 150,000 euros.
We only charge 5% commission.
Enquiries are handled by European Yacht Brokers, who cover any port in the Mediterranean. Call or WhatsApp +39 351 949 3538.

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Olbia office: Via Capoverde 2, c/o Delta Center, 07026 Olbia, Sardinia, Italy
Open Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 18:00
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