Personal FX Case Studies - Property Purchase
Kevin and Beryl are retirees and recently sold their home so that they could purchase a more modest home and realise a long held dream of purchasing an apartment in Tuscany.
What made you decide to buy a place in Tuscany?
It was something that we’d talked about for a long time. We’d been travelling to Italy for our holidays for the last six years or so and had really started to get an affinity for one of the little towns just outside of Florence. We knew the people, we loved the local shops and we loved the idea of being able to base ourselves there and explore all of Tuscany.
How did you find purchasing your apartment?
All in all not too bad! I think with anything the key is finding the right people who do this kind of thing for a living. We engaged a firm that specialised in property purchase for foreigners. It just made the whole thing so much easier.
What about exchanging money for the purchase of the property?
The property firm had recommended one of the large global financial firms for us to use to exchange our money but we had also been recommended Bell FX by our financial adviser. I spoke to both Bell FX and the competitor and got a much better impression from Bell FX. At Bell FX, I got to speak to the same person each time I called and they were always attentive and remembered me and my situation.
How did the transfer go?
Great. We got a rate that we were really happy with and my husband calculated we had made a saving of $4,216 compared to what the competitor had offered. That’s a lot of bottles of Chianti! But I guess most of all Bell FX had made us comfortable with how the process worked. We knew when the money was being exchanged, where it was going and when and how it would get there. Bell FX kept us up to date the whole time. Perfect.
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