How We Acquired a €4 Million Azimut for $330,000

In the yacht world, the gap between retail price and real value is where fortunes are made or lost. Most buyers never see that gap. We live in it. Here's the story of a 2019 Azimut Grande 25 — 88 feet of Italian engineering that sells new for €4 million or more — that we secured for roughly $330,000, and how a deal like this becomes the foundation for something much larger than a boat.

The Boat

The Azimut Grande 25 is not an entry-level yacht. It's a flagship-class motor yacht: tri-deck, twin diesels, a flybridge, multiple staterooms — the kind of vessel that anchors off Bodrum or Sunny Isles and turns heads in both places. New, it commands four million euros and a waiting list. This particular hull — a 2019 — came to market through a competitive salvage auction, the part of the industry most buyers don't have access to and wouldn't know how to navigate.

The Gap

A salvage acquisition isn't "a broken boat." It's a vessel that, for insurance or circumstantial reasons, enters a specialized market at a fraction of its retail value. The skill isn't finding these — it's evaluating them: knowing which hulls are worth recovering, what a realistic refit costs, and where in the world that refit should happen. We secured this Azimut for approximately $330,000 — a fraction of its €4M class value — and coordinated the entire acquisition end to end for a client.

The Türkiye Bridge

Here's where most American brokers stop and we keep going. The yacht is now slated for export to Türkiye for a full refit. Turkish shipyards offer world-class craftsmanship at a fraction of U.S. or Western European yard rates — which is why so much of the world's superyacht refit work quietly happens on the Turkish coast. Once restored, the yacht can be enjoyed along the Turkish Riviera — Bodrum, Göcek, Antalya — chartered for income, or resold. One vessel, two markets, a single coordinated deal.

Why This Matters For You

A story like this isn't just interesting — it's a template. Here's what it unlocks, depending on who you are:

• If you're an investor: the Miami-to-Türkiye yacht corridor is an arbitrage most people can't access. Buy right, refit smart, enjoy or resell.
• If you love yachts and want to live here: we help you acquire and berth in South Florida — alongside a waterfront home, if you want both.
• If you're pursuing a U.S. visa: a yacht charter operation in Miami is a legitimate, active business. Structured and documented properly, it can form the basis of a strong E-2 treaty-investor application — alongside our car-rental and real-estate-development paths. No outcome is ever guaranteed, but the foundation can be genuinely strong.

Who We Are

Xuma Yachts is the marine arm of Miami Emlak, the Turkish-American firm that has guided 150+ investor families through Miami real estate, E-2 visa structuring, and relocation. We're licensed in Florida and partnered on the ground in İstanbul, Bodrum, and Antalya. We work both sides of every transaction — American and Turkish — in both languages.

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