Corporate TM History 

José Luis Serna TM Real Estate Group president

History 

TM Real Estate Group began in 1969 when its founder, José Luis Serna, started to build and sell apartment blocks in and around the towns of Orihuela and Torrevieja on the Spanish Costa Blanca, laying the foundations for what would later become the TM of today!

Over four decades building properties by the sea 

 

TM Real Estate Group is founded

1969. Company founded

In 1969 José Luis Serna opened the doors on TM Real Estate Group. Over the next decade, TM would develop and sell various apartment buildings in Torrevieja and Orihuela, Costa Blanca. The humble beginnings for what would become the company you see before you today!

TM first properties in Orihuela

1969 Construction began on the first properties in Orihuela

TM first coastal holiday home project developed

1981 First coastal holiday home project developed

La empresa construye su primer proyecto de segunda residencia en la costa: la Urbanización Torreblanca del Mediterráneo, que supone la focalización de la compañía hacia el sector inmobiliario de la segunda residencia, y que le dará nombre por más de dos décadas.

TM Real Estate Group international network established

1983 International sales network established

As a result of its commercial and international activities, TM establishes a network of direct offices and agents throughout Spain and also in various European countries, to mark its presence in these markets and also provide direct contact with both clients and potential clients living in these countries, a policy of proximity to its clients which rapidly becomes one of the key factors in TMs success.

TM Real Estate Group opem its first sales office in Madrid

1984 Opening of first domestic sales office in Madrid

TM Real Estate Group, pioneers of sale properties in Spain fully furnished

1985 TM pioneers the sale of fully furnished and equipped properties

Construction of the current headquarters of the company in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca

1987. Construction of the Edificio Bahía, current headquarters of the company in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca

Mar Real Estate Group established

1999. Mar Real Estate Established

TM Real Estate Group pioneers in buying a property in Spain online

2000. TM Pioneers the possibility of buying a property online, via their website

TM Real Estate Group wins the Tourism Award

2002. TM wins the Tourism Award from the Alicante Chamber of Commerce

The Alicante Chamber of Commerce awarded TM with the Tourism Award 2002, highlighting both the location of its properties and the adaptation of the properties to the tastes and needs of the clients, both in terms of design and build quality, as some of the more impressive characteristics of the company.

TM Real Estate Group wins the Tourism Award

2005. First International Project – Mexico

TM takes a qualitive leap with its latest project, The Fives, Riviera Maya, on the Mexican Caribbean. A luxury resort, The Fives marks the first international project for the company, offering clients both a high quality holiday home by the Caribbean and a way to generate a return on their investment via the hotel management and rental services of the resort.

TM Real Estate Group wins the Tourism Award

2006. Corporate image change: Torreblanca del Mediterráneo becomes TM Real Estate Group

During the Spanish housing exhibition SIMA 2006, TM presents to the public its new corporate identity. An image which represents the solvency and credibility of a company the size of TM, together with the warmth and proximity of the Mediterranean Sun which shines from our logo.

TM returns to sell properties in Spain to domestic housing market

2007 TM returns to the domestic housing market

With the launch of Los Álamos de Molina, located in Molina de Segura, next to the city of Murcia, TM returns to the domestic housing sector with this development aimed at first time, Spanish buyers.

TM Real Estate Group wins the Tourism Award

2008. New TM website: a new and improved way to communicate online with our clients, agents & suppliers

TM Real Estate Group begins farming

2009 TM begins farming

TM starts a new division: using vacant land which it has for farming! It begins with the planting of brocolli on 70 hectares of TM land, with following seasons dedicated to the production of melons, watermelon, and citrus fruit

TM Real Estate Group wins Best Developer Europe Award

2010 TM win Best Developer - Western Europe

TM is awarded the prize for Best Developer, Western Europe 2010 by the prestigious uk-based association of property professionals, the AIPP (Association of International Property Professionals), during the A Place in the Sun property exhibition in London.

TM Real Estate Group new international project

2010 New international project: social housing in Brazil

TM continues its international expansion with the launch of a social housing project in Brazil, specifically in the town of Lauro de Freitas, near Salvador de Bahia.

TM Best Developer - Western Europe for second year running

2011 TM Best Developer - Western Europe for second year running

TM Real Estate Group wins Best Developer – Western Europe for the second year running, awarded by the British trade association AIPP (Association of International Property Professionals).