About
A local operation for owners who are not local
Mare Nostrum Property Operations exists for one specific person: the owner of a property on the Croatian coast who lives somewhere else, does not speak Croatian, and has no way to verify what happens at the property between visits.
The model is borrowed from construction, where an owner's representative acts for the client against the contractor — checking scope, schedule and quality on the client's behalf. We apply that role at the scale of a single apartment or house, and extend it across the quiet years between projects, when a property mostly needs somebody to notice things early.
Two commitments hold the rest up. We are paid by the owner and never by the trades, so a recommendation is never a placement fee in disguise. And every claim we make is photographed and dated, because a report that cannot be checked is only an opinion sent from a long way away.
We work in English, German and Slovenian with owners and in Croatian with contractors. Italian follows as the client base makes it worth doing properly — a machine-translated page would fail exactly the audience it is aimed at.
How we choose contractors
- Registered business, valid insurance and the qualifications the trade requires.
- References we have actually called, and where possible work we have seen.
- A defined service area and a realistic answer about availability.
- Written quotes against our scope, never a verbal number.
- Tracked performance. A contractor who misses agreed dates without warning stops receiving our work.
Languages
Owner communication in English, German and Slovenian. Contractor communication in Croatian. Italian planned.
Company details
Registered company name, VAT number and registered address are published here and in the imprint on completion of registration.
Get started
Start with one inspection
One visit, one report, one honest list of what your property needs. Everything else follows from that, or does not.