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We bought this house and sold it without doing anything other than cutting the grass and demolishing a building.
It's not a bad house but it's right onto the route national with almost non stop trucks.
The house reports say the entrance is dangerous, it is a 90 zone. So you have to be quick. ;)
Someone has been in the old house that is open as...

I've been assisting with the sale of a client's house as they are stuck in the UK and today was 'handover the keys to the agents day' as the Acte de Vente had been signed and sealed, or so I was led to believe. When the agent had done her inspection this afternoon she casually mentioned that the signing was actually happening on Monday as the...

Due to lock down and quarantine and with Brexit looming it's incredibly hard to move things forward on our purchase. the diagnostics showed some apparently minor (in the estate agents view) issues that need work including one that would, at least in the UK, invalidate insurance if we had holiday letters in. So - we want those fixed.

Apparently...

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I have read various different reports on what a Notaire is supposed to do but have little info on what they actually end up doing. I know they're supposed to act for both parties. Should we email them direct? At what point do they swing into action?

Probably a truly dim question but so far we've only heard from the estate agents.

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We've had an offer accepted on a lovely holiday home that we may spend more time in future.

There is small borrowing needed to complete and we're finding that in principle mortgage offers don't necessarily translate - or rather that they're adding quite expensive clauses to the terms. E.g. clear all credit card debt, show one year's...

The chateau was previously advertised for sale for €4.5M but it is now selling at auction without reserve.

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JD

Hello everyone and thank you so much for taking the time to read this post. Thanks to Covid we now have a completely online business and are selling up in the UK and want to move to the space of France. We are having trouble finding the internet speed we want in a rural setting and would love any tips on where to avoid and where to buy - we would...

A question for Mysty and ATS.

Do you organise the Compromis de Vente yourselves and if so do you use a standard form?

Thanks in advance.

Selling

We have been trying to sell our house for a long time.

At the time we brought it the market was at an all time high.
Heeding the words of my mother,
‘ property prices may dip, but in the long term, they will never go down ‘

I was very an anxious not to keep the money that we had realised hanging about as cash for too long.

We found a...

We passed the PC sign last week in a village a few minutes away.
We thought they were building a house.
They got permission to permanently site a mobile home.
Cheaper than new build. Planning regs may have changed?

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Hi, does anyone know if Immos get funny if you approach one immo first and then view and go with another? Do they talk to each other if you know what i mean? Would they come back to us and say hey we introduced you to the property first! Iam i over thinking this?!

Hi All,
I'm trying to complete on a purchase before the Notaire has her 3 week holidays. The Compromis period expires on Wednesday and apparently she's waiting for the le certificat d’urbanisme. Is this issued by the local Mairie?

I remember a property tycoon in France explaining why you should only buy new builds.
It's a pity builders listened to him.
There is now a glut of new builds. ;)

The Times today says that a decade ago there were 800 châteaux for sale in France whilst at the end of last year there were 1500. That was before the corona virus occurred, which has now deprived all owners of any type of income for the past three months.

Much as I enjoyed watching the Dick and Angel saga, it had always seemed to me that their...

Afternoon Brian, 

Fantastic news, thank you so much for letting me know, how exciting 😊

After six years of watching the website that the house was advertised on, my dream has come true and my French journey has started 😊

We would love to meet you and your wife again to get the keys whenever we can make it over again. But if it’s more convenient...

Hi all,

We are considering buying a place in France for holidays whilst the family are young, then possibly to live in when we are old!

I am a new user here and this forum looks like a friendly, helpful resource.

I see a lot of really nice (IMO) houses for under 100k that would suit us just fine, staggered in fact at what you can buy. Areas...

Got an email from Cle France today informing me that I could ‘buy it unseen’ to beat the Dec 31 deadline with us leaving the EU.......that’s a bit of a lie to me, we can still buy property in France after Dec 31, like anyone can buy even if they are not from the UK......The problem is applying for residency, that’s what the deadline is all about,...

We got our first sale completed today during the lockdown.
It was all done by email, simple and quick.
Next one is due to be completed towards the end of this month they viewed just before lockdown.
They did get a paper contract, took three weeks by post to get back to France.
Finishing off by power of attorney.

House for sale on ebayUK, perhaps he does not know the buying process. If your the highest bid, 50% deposit by debit card or bank transfer within 48 hours, forget about the 10 days of réflexion. His solicitor has a contract ready to go. ;)

Ever seen an old abandoned commercial building and wondered whether it could ever get permission to be converted into a dwelling?

Well unless I have misunderstood the following or have missed something then permission is not needed!!!

La réglementation du changement d'usage, destinée à protéger le logement, ne concerne que les locaux...

I'm just being nosey, but also wondering how much would be unmanageable, so any comments are welcome.

This will no doubt be due to the current confinement but we have just received a compromis which, in the not so distant past, would have been posted out the old fashioned way when you couldn't make it out to an office. Gradually this changed to notaires being okay about emailing it out to be signed and returned. Today, for the first time, it was...

One euros top prize, it could be yours. :lol:
Three questions which ones are True or false.

Buying a house in France.

1. Is it possible to buy a house without the ten days of reflextion.
2. Can you just sign and buy a property when all the papers are ready including preemption.
3. Do you have to pay a deposit.

Competition ends tomorrow midday....

That is plus legal fees :lol:
3900 sqm of land, detached house with second guest house 20sqm but cute. Garage,150 year old oak tree and 3900sqm of land. Almost habitable.
We had been trying to view this for a few days but Frenchies had arranged viewings before us but thought there was too much work.
The roof is water tight, kitchen and bathroom...

Well not everyones dream property but it's cheap.