Your Yacht Is in Greece. Your Buyer Could Be Anywhere.
Yacht Brokers Greece helps owners sell motor yachts, sailing yachts and catamarans from €100,000 to €5,000,000, with brokers and agents across the mainland and the islands.
Why Owners List With Yacht Brokers Greece
Featured Yachts for Sale
From Athens to Corfu, Lefkas, Rhodes, Kos and Crete
Wherever your yacht is located in Greece, our local brokers and partners are ready to represent you and deliver results.
What a Yacht Broker in Greece Actually Does for You
Selling a yacht is not a listing exercise. The boat has to be priced against what comparable hulls actually sold for rather than what they were advertised at, presented so that a buyer three countries away can reach a decision without standing on the deck, and then carried through offer, survey, paperwork and handover without the sale collapsing in the final fortnight. That is the work, and it is why owners use brokers.
The Greek market is unusual in one respect. Most of the stock is not concentrated in two or three large yards; it is spread thinly across the mainland coast and dozens of islands. A well-kept boat lying at Leros or in Sithonia is effectively invisible to an international buyer unless somebody puts it in front of him. Closing that gap is the whole job of Yacht Brokers Greece.
Valuation from real transactions
Yacht Brokers Greece price against completed sales and current comparable stock, not asking prices. An over-priced yacht sits, goes stale and eventually sells for less than a correctly priced one would have made in month two.
Presentation that survives scrutiny
Professional photography, walkthrough video, a full and honest inventory. Buyers travelling from Germany or the United States decide whether to book a flight on the strength of the listing alone.
Reaching buyers outside Greece
The buyer for a 20-metre motor yacht in Athens is far more likely to be in Munich, Warsaw, Milan or Miami than in Attica. Listings go out through the international platforms and to our own qualified buyer network.
Qualifying the enquiry
Every listing attracts curiosity. We establish budget, finance position, intended cruising ground and timescale before anyone is invited aboard, so that your season is not spent showing the boat to browsers.
Flag, VAT position and paperwork
Registration, VAT status and the ship’s documentation are the first things a serious buyer’s adviser will examine. We establish where your yacht stands at the start, not in the week of completion.
Survey, private viewing and handover
We arrange the private viewing, attend the survey, negotiate on the findings and manage the handover and the transfer of funds through to the day the new owner takes the keys.
Selling Your Yacht in Greece: The Process, Step by Step
Most owners have sold a house and never a boat, so the sequence Yacht Brokers Greece follow is set out plainly. Timescales are typical rather than guaranteed; a correctly priced yacht in good order at an accessible marina moves considerably faster than a tired one on a remote island in November.
| Stage | What we do | What you do | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Valuation | Inspect, photograph the condition, compare against completed sales and live stock, and give you a realistic range. | Send the specification, refit history and service records. | 3–5 days |
| 2. Listing agreement | Agree the asking price, the commission and the marketing plan in writing. | Sign, and confirm who may authorise a sale. | Under a week |
| 3. Photography & video | Full photographic session, walkthrough video, drone where the berth allows. | Have the yacht clean, uncluttered and, ideally, out of its cover. | One day aboard |
| 4. Publication | Listing built and pushed to the international platforms and to our buyer network in five languages. | Nothing. | 48 hours |
| 5. Enquiries & qualification | Filter enquiries, answer technical questions, arrange private viewings with genuine buyers only. | Keep us informed of any change in availability. | Ongoing, heaviest in weeks 2–8 |
| 6. Offer, deposit & survey | Negotiate the offer, hold the deposit, attend the survey and renegotiate on the findings. | Decide on the survey outcome; agree any remedial work. | 3–6 weeks |
| 7. Completion & handover | Bill of sale, deletion and registration paperwork, transfer of funds, handover of the yacht. | Sign, clear personal effects, hand over keys and manuals. | 1–2 weeks |
Two points owners consistently underestimate, and both are why Yacht Brokers Greece front-load the work. The first is that the survey, not the offer, is where deals are lost, which is why we would rather find the problem in week one than have a buyer’s surveyor find it in week six. The second is that a boat which has been listed for eleven months at the wrong price is a harder sell than the same boat listed correctly on day one, because buyers watch the market and remember what has been sitting.
What It Costs: 5% Commission, and Nothing Hidden
Yacht Brokers Greece charge a flat 5% commission on the completed sale price. There is no listing fee, no photography charge, no marketing retainer and no monthly cost while the yacht is on the market. If the boat does not sell, you pay nothing. Many brokerages around the Mediterranean quote 8–10%; on a €1,000,000 yacht that difference is between thirty and fifty thousand euros of your money.
| Yacht Brokers Greece | Typical brokerage | Private sale | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commission on completion | 5% | Commonly 8–10% | None |
| Cost if the yacht does not sell | Nothing | Varies; retainers are common | Nothing |
| Professional photography & video | Included | Sometimes charged | At your expense |
| International platform listings | Included | Included | Limited or unavailable |
| Buyer qualification | Done for you | Done for you | Every enquiry is yours |
| Paperwork, deposit handling, handover | Managed | Managed | Your responsibility |
| Marketing in five languages | Included | Rare | No |
A private sale looks free until you count the cost of a season spent answering messages, the risk of holding a stranger’s deposit, and the discount a buyer expects precisely because there is no broker standing behind the transaction. The commission is not the number that matters; the net figure in your account on completion day is, and that is what Yacht Brokers Greece are judged on.
Where We Work: Marinas Across the Mainland and the Islands
Yacht Brokers Greece operate through resident brokers and affiliated agents rather than from a single office, because a yacht cannot be sold properly by someone who has never seen it. Coverage runs from the Ionian to the Dodecanese and down to Crete, taking in the large Attica marinas, the charter bases, and the yards where boats are wintered ashore.
Attica and the Saronic
Alimos, Flisvos, Zea, Rafina and Lavrio. Alimos alone holds around 1,100 permanent berths, roughly fifty of which take yachts over 25 metres, and it remains the natural first stop for a buyer flying into Athens. Start here: sell your boat Alimos.
The Ionian
Lefkas, Preveza, Corfu, Gouvia and Kefalonia. The densest concentration of sailing yachts and catamarans in the country, much of it ex-charter stock coming out of fleet service with documented maintenance histories. Yacht Brokers Greece keep agents at each of the main Ionian bases.
The Dodecanese and the eastern Aegean
Kos, Rhodes, Leros and Samos. Well-served by yards and winter storage, and within a short passage of the Turkish coast, which widens the buyer pool considerably.
The Cyclades, Crete and the north
Paros, Syros, Mykonos, Heraklion, Agios Nikolaos, Volos, Thessaloniki and the Halkidiki marinas including Porto Carras. Remote berths are not a problem; they simply need the listing to do more work.
Practical detail matters when a yacht changes hands here. Berth availability, beam and draft limits and lift-out capacity differ marina by marina, and each is worth checking against the marina’s own published information — for example Alimos Marina. Departure and arrival formalities are handled through the local port authority, whose offices are listed by the Hellenic Coast Guard. Buyers travelling in almost always route through Athens International Airport, which is around thirty minutes from the Alimos berths and connects onward to every island with a runway.
Buying a Yacht in Greece
The same network works in reverse. Greece is one of the better places in Europe to buy, for three reasons: a large pool of ex-charter sailing yachts and catamarans with genuine service records, a long season that keeps boats in commission and therefore in demonstrable working order, and prices that still sit below the equivalent hull lying in the South of France.
What buyers coming from outside the country need is somebody on the ground, which is what Yacht Brokers Greece exist to provide. We inspect before you fly, arrange the private viewing, commission an independent surveyor, and handle the registration and paperwork so the yacht is legally yours and correctly documented before you take her out. We act for one side of the transaction only, and we tell you which side that is at the outset.
Current Yacht Brokers Greece stock runs from sailing yachts and cruising catamarans in the €100,000 to €500,000 range through to motor yachts above €1,500,000. See what is available now on yachts for sale in Greece, or call a broker directly on +30 698 013 5656 and describe what you are looking for — a good deal of what we sell is placed before it ever reaches a listing page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What commission do Yacht Brokers Greece charge?
A flat 5% of the completed sale price, payable only on completion. There is no listing fee, no photography charge and no monthly marketing cost. If the yacht does not sell, you pay nothing at all.
How long does it take to sell a yacht in Greece?
A correctly priced yacht in good order typically sells within three to six months, with the heaviest buyer interest in the first eight weeks of the listing. Over-priced boats take far longer and usually settle below what an accurate price would have achieved.
Does my yacht need to be VAT paid to sell in Greece?
Not necessarily, but the VAT and registration position must be established and documented before marketing, because it directly affects who can buy the yacht and at what price. We check the paperwork at valuation stage rather than at completion.
Can a non-Greek buyer purchase a yacht lying in Greece?
Yes. Most of our buyers are not Greek. The yacht can remain on its existing flag or be re-registered elsewhere, and we manage the bill of sale, deletion and registration paperwork on both sides of the transaction.
Do you arrange viewings and surveys?
Yes. We arrange a private viewing with qualified buyers only, and attend the survey with an independent surveyor of the buyer’s choosing. We then negotiate on the findings so that the survey does not become the point where the sale collapses.
Where in Greece do you cover?
The mainland coast and most islands with a marina or boatyard, including Attica, the Ionian, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, Crete and the north. Yacht Brokers Greece use brokers and affiliated agents resident locally, rather than despatching them from Athens.
Still deciding? Speak to a Yacht Brokers Greece broker on +30 698 013 5656 or email info@europeanyachtbrokers.com for a confidential valuation with no obligation.