When you make any type of investment – DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE!!!

With French property your protection by is totally unique. With "off-plan" new build, you have 8 full weeks from reserving a property to cancel out. No reason has to be given - you just "change your mind". (Worldwide the maximum is 10 days for "cooling off" and the normal is 3 to 7 days). Your deposit is refunded in full!

To help we advise all investors to look at two important Government websites :

  1. www.insee.fr (have English Version). GOVERNMENT. Ministry of Economic and Trade.
  2. www.notaires.fr The official website of the State notaires. English version. They have wonderful booklets to download - in English

We also appoint an English speaking notaires for you, to contact. You will find list of English speaking notaires on their website of thru any French Embassy, or the British Embassy in Paris.

(Remember : the notaire "closing" fee if fixed by the State at 2.5% per property - whether there is one, or ten notaires involved!)

Yes; dealing in a foreign language can be daunting, but you will find the benefits of French property worth the little "extra" time and effort. Many others certainly have. The official INSEE figures, (as of 1 Sept. 2007), of English speaking foreigners presently owning RESIDENTIAL properties in France :-

British : over 500.000;
Ireland : 108.000;
USA 58.000;
Scandanavia : 43.000.

And the subject is well served on the Internet. Go to Google and type in :

"French Investment Property" - OVER 2 M I L L I O N HITS

"Buy to Let France" - OVER 13 M I L L I O N HITS
(Checked on 06/11/07)

You can also try other search engines and a combination of words. (If you read French : type in Loi Robien).

SO PLEASE CARRY OUT YOUR "DUE DILIGENCE"

** On the internet and in the media you will find many adverts re. "Leaseback", (called in France "Residence de Tourisme"). This is basically extended Timeshare. It is an excellent investment if you are a Resident French income tax payer, (who can write off the property against their income tax), but is extremely bad if you are not. As a group we actually build "Residence de Tourime", but never market to overseas investors. Many notaires refuse to sign/approve this type of investment for overseas clients. Please email us for legal reports.