Thanks for your help. Yes, it sold through your web site, and only took 4 days to sell!! I also bought it through Y2S 4 years ago, so thanks for a great service!

(Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 40, 1/6th share, Lefkas, Greece)

Strawberryflyer, February 2012

Our buyer found us through the yours2share website, it played a pivotal role.

(1/5th share, Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 33.1 in Ionian)

share4sail, January 2012

Andrew A sold a 25% share in his 2010 Fairline Phantom 48 based in Cala D'Or, Mallorca, Spain a couple of months ago as a result of an ad posted on yours2share. The current boat share ads are here.

This case study is about a French property which was sold in tenths by a regular yours2share advertiser Ginny Blackwell of FrenchPropertyShares.com. Ginny advertised shares for sale in Maison Bleue in Quarante, Languedoc, France in 2007 and 2008

Maison Bleu is a three storey, three bedroom, three bathroom village home in Quarante, a small historic village with all services, only 30 minutes from the Mediterranean beaches and near the Canal du Midi. Narbonne is 30 minutes drive and it is 45 minutes to Carcassonne, with easy connecting flights to London.

Joint or fractional ownership enables a small group of people to get together and buy a valuable asset such as property, boat, mobile home or aircraft. Usually there are between two and twelve partners: three, four, five and six partners are most common.

The advantages are obvious: great value for money, better for the environment, shared responsibility, and the enjoyment of being part of a group of people that loves the boats, car, villa as much as you do. What bothers people most is the fear of falling out with your partners. This usually happens when one sharer wants to do something different to the others, and it is exacerbated, if they actually go ahead and do this.

Margaret Flatman from Norwich in Norfolk sold her 1/5th share in a Hunter Legend 340 based in Nidri, Lefkas, Greece to Peter Dow from Topsham, near Exeter in Devon. The share was advertised in October 2008 and was sold the following month. The current boat share ads are here.

This case study is unusual in a couple of respects:

• The owner, who only uses their boat occasionally, has sold a 25% share to keep the boat in use throughout the year and to create some income. Although it is more common for the shares to be equal, they don't have to be.
• The arrangement is based upon the sharers using the boat together, rather than each owner having sole use of the boat when it is their turn

Three Yorkshiremen, Ian Chapman, Tom Harrison and Geoff Sumner had never heard of each other until autumn 2007, but six months later, they bought a Fairline Targa 40 together for £155,000.

Adrienne Campbell started the Baked Bean club in September 2006 with four friends in Lewes, East Sussex, as an informal car club. The club started because they all needed a car at the same time. The car is a little Daewoo Matiz (called the Baked Bean, for obvious reasons) that was owned by one of the group.

Nick Fieldhouse, a solicitor from Redhill in Surrey, didn't realise that yours2share really doesn't charge commission and when he'd completed the sale of his share in this unique Italian racing cruiser, the Lady Emma, he emailed yours2share to find how much he owed them. Sophie Garrett explained that there was no comission.