Buying A Home In France

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The Process First of all, find a place that suits you. You can either consult advertisements on various sites and negotiate directly with the sellers… …or contact estate agents or a Notaire who will negotiate for you with the sellers. Once you have found the property of your dreams, and agreed on a price with […]

Where do non-resident foreigners buy in France?

Notaires.fr has recently published an interesting article, about the percentage of houses that are sold to foreigners in France, based on the 2022 sales figures. That year marked the comeback of foreign second home buyers, with Paris seeing its highest levels in the last ten years. So where do non-resident foreigners buy? The most popular […]

Energy ratings and selling a house in France

In a decree published in the Official Journal on 4 May 2022 anyone who wants to sell a property from   September 2022 that is ranked in the F or G categories (i.e. those that are projected to need a minimum 330 KWh/m2 of energy per year) will also need to pay for an ‘audit […]