Buying & Selling Guide
Whether buying or selling a yacht—we've got you covered.
Since 1949 Northrop & Johnson has been among the world's leading fully integrated luxury yacht service providers. We have over 60 years of authenticity, integrity and rock solid relationships forged on trust to make sure we provide the highest quality service and utmost satisfaction, no matter in what corner of the globe. Our 80+ multilingual employees are located in 7 offices all around the globe - from San Diego to Hong Kong we offer an industry leading resource to our clients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Our brokers act as consultants on the client's behalf and always in his/her best interest to minimize time and maximize the benefit, while keeping the process fun and enjoyable for all parties involved.
Our impeccable sales history, excellent reputation with other worldwide brokerage houses and repeat business due to client satisfaction are all part of why we are considered the authority on yachting.
Selling your Yacht:
If you are in the market to sell your yacht, we can help you to:
- Assess the true value of the yacht
- Keep in constant communication with market updates
- Organize private showings
- Organize surveys
- Organize closings
- Organize financing
- Organize insurance
- Organize crew
- Organize charter
- Organize all documentation
- Organize dockage
- Organize photography video and 3D tour
- Liaise and coordinate with agent
- Coordination and storage of owner's personal item
- Miscellaneous as required
A big part of the actual sales process is the marketing of the yacht. All of our brokers have a full service in-house marketing and creative team at their disposal to ensure the yacht is constantly promoted and exposed to the right pool of buyers.
We are always exploring new sales and marketing techniques to stay on the forefront of the industry and to evolve our strategic marketing plans for our vessels.
Whether it is our own database with well-defined client profiles we can search to notify clients whose profile matches a yacht like yours, or access to the top yacht shows in the world, or even custom designed print or digital media plans for your yacht - we have it covered.
Buying a Yacht:
If you are in the market to buy a yacht we can advise you on every single aspect involved in the process. Again, our goal is to minimize time and maximize the benefit, while keeping the process fun and enjoyable. We will stand by your side from the beginning to the end to make sure we will find the perfect match for your unique requirements.
To help us find the best fit for you we need to determine the following:
- Do you prefer power- or sail boats?
- Where do you ultimately plan on traveling? Is the draft important?
- Are you looking to travel the world? Is range important?
- What size range do you feel comfortable with?
- What styling do you prefer? Contemporary? Traditional?
- Do you plan to live on-board?
- Are you planning on chartering the yacht?
- What is your preferred stateroom configuration?
- Where do you plan to dock the yacht? Do you have special requirements for LOA?
- What is your budget?
Through our own extensive database and long-time industry relationships we have the most up to date information on our fingertips to make sure we find exactly what you are looking for.
