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Here’s a true story about renovating in France and how learning to speak a few French phrases can save you thousands and thousands of dollars. This concerns some friends of mine who are renovating an old French farmhouse. It’s a “longere” to be precise, which roughly translated means “long house”. Way back [...] After my last post about cheap French property I had a comment from an English real estate agent working in France. Always nice to get comments, I thought. Not this time! I won’t go into detail but this person was having a real rant. Not content with attacking my knowledge of the French property market they [...] Not so long ago people were falling over themselves to take advantage of cheap French property. Places like Paris and Cannes have always been high priced but almost everywhere else in France was packed with bargains. Not so any more. The Brits in particular bought a lot of the cheap French properties near the channel ports, [...] French building land (terrain à bâtir) is readily available and quite affordable in a lot of places so why not build your own French home? Pic courtesy TheMoveChannel It’s an attractive idea. It should cost you a lot less and you can design and build exactly what you want (within the local planning regs, of course). It [...] |
  My friend Jeff has written a really useful book about French property. Well worth a look.
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