Platja d'Aro · S'Agaró · Castell d'Aro · Sant Feliu de Guíxols
Emerald Properties is the advisor-first property firm for the Aro bay. One principal on your file from the first call to the notary, numbers before feelings, and service in English, Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian.
Where we work
We do not cover the Costa Brava. We cover the bay between Sant Feliu and Cala Rovira, and the valley behind it, because that is what lets us tell you what a house is worth before the seller does.
Why Emerald
In Spain the agent is normally paid by the seller and works for the seller. Buyers with Emerald get their own side of the table: an independent view of value, a written due-diligence check on urbanism, licences, community debts and energy, and negotiation that is not trying to close at any price.
Every valuation we give is built on closed sales and street-level data, not on what a neighbour is asking. Owners get a yield analysis and a plain-language review of what the 2028 tourist-licence rules mean for their flat. Our fees are written down before we start.
Your file is handled personally by Iryna Rudeva, not passed between a listing agent, a viewing agent and an office. English, Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian, and lawyers, notaries and banks we already work with for the rest.
Services
You tell us what you want your life here to look like; we translate it into a shortlist, including homes that are not on the portals. We check every candidate before you fall for it, negotiate on your side, and stay with you through reservation, notary, and the first month of bills.
A price built on closed sales in your street, professional photography, and marketing to the buyers who actually purchase here: French, Dutch, Belgian, German, Swiss, British, Ukrainian and Russian-speaking families, plus Barcelona and Girona. We qualify every buyer before a viewing and report to you in writing every week.
For tenants: honest listings, contracts you understand, and a deposit that comes back. For owners: the right strategy for your property under the current Catalan rules, whether that is a year-round tenant, a licensed summer let, or a mix.
Keys, cleaning, maintenance, pool and garden, utilities and community meetings, with a monthly statement you can read in two minutes. For rented homes we handle guests, tax reporting and licence compliance.
Schools, doctors, registration at the town hall, a car, a bank. We have done this ourselves and we do it with our clients in their own language.
Properties
We would rather show you six homes we can vouch for than sixty we have never visited. Every listing carries our own note on price and pitfalls.
Example listingIryna's take: Priced on 2025 closed sales at Sa Conca, not on asking prices. Check the pool licence before offering.
Example listingIryna's take: Front-line stock rarely comes up; the 1970s building means budget for the community's façade works.
Example listingIryna's take: Protected façade, so any renovation needs heritage approval from the town hall. Realistic all-in cost is closer to 2.6 M€.
Example listingIryna's take: Good value for a family home ten minutes from the beach. Ask for the garage to be included; it usually is not.
Example listingIryna's take: Lives year-round, walks to the port. No parking, and check the community's rules on holiday lets before buying to rent.
Example listingIryna's take: Build cost from about 2,200 €/m² with a local architect. We can introduce two we have worked with.
These are example listings that show how Emerald presents a property. Live listings replace them at launch.
The market, in numbers
Prices for the municipality of Castell-Platja d'Aro, September 2026. We update this page every quarter from closed sales and registry data, so you are never negotiating on last year's numbers.
Price-model estimates for the five most expensive streets in Platja d'Aro and S'Agaró, against the municipal average. The gap between a good street and an average one is around 1,300 € per square metre: on a 120 m² apartment, roughly 155,000 €.
Sources: RealAdvisor price model, September 2026; Colegio de Registradores via idealista, 2025; Engel & Völkers ranking of Catalonia's most expensive areas, 2021. Figures are market-wide models, not Emerald transactions.
Apartments have outpaced houses for two years, driven by buyers who want a lock-and-leave home on the front line. That premium is now fully priced; the better value in 2026 is a house in Castell d'Aro or the upper streets of Sant Feliu, where the same budget buys land and a pool.
A quarter of the province's buyers are foreign, and French buyers are the most active group in Catalonia. They tend to look at Easter and again in September. If you are selling, be ready for both.
Five-year growth of 53% for apartments will not repeat. Our valuations assume a normal market, and we will tell you if your asking price depends on an abnormal one.
For owners
Catalonia now caps tourist-rental licences at ten per hundred residents, and the new five-year licence regime applies from 2028. Castell-Platja d'Aro is one of nine Costa Brava councils fighting the rule, because together they would have to withdraw around 17,700 licences.
A licensed apartment is about to become a scarcer asset. An unlicensed one needs a plan. We review your position, tell you what your flat is worth under each scenario, and set up the rental strategy that fits: year-round tenant, licensed seasonal let, or sale while the licence still counts.
What we check in a licence review
Iryna Rudeva
Iryna founded Emerald Properties to give buyers, sellers and owners on the Aro bay something the big franchises cannot: one accountable person who knows the streets, reads the numbers, and speaks your language.
Every client meets Iryna at the first call and works with her to the end. She does the valuations, the viewings, the negotiation and the notary appointment herself, and she says no to a property when the numbers say no.
How a purchase works with us
A one-hour conversation about how you want to live here, your budget including taxes, and your timing. You get a written brief back.
Portal listings, our own buyer list and off-market approaches. We visit first and send you honest notes and video before you travel.
Registry extract, urban-planning status, licences, community accounts and debts, energy certificate, and a structural look where needed.
A negotiation built on comparables. Reservation and arras contracts reviewed by your lawyer before you sign anything.
Funds, taxes and the escritura coordinated with your bank and lawyer. Iryna is in the room.
Utilities transferred, insurance, community introduction, padrón, and a management plan if you will not be here year-round.
Fees
Most agencies on this coast quote fees only when asked, and only verbally. Ours are fixed in your engagement letter and never change during the process.
Valuation, marketing, viewings, negotiation and completion. Paid only on completion.
Search, due diligence, negotiation and completion support. A retainer credited against the success fee.
Marketing, tenant screening, contract and deposit registration.
Monthly care of the home, trades, bills and reporting. Guest handling for licensed rentals.
The 2028 review described above, with a written recommendation. Free for management clients.
Contact
A reply within one working day, in the language you write in. Viewings seven days a week by appointment.
+44 751 677 9059ir@emerald-cap.com