Alexis Goldberg of the FranceBuyingGuide.com tells us about the rental market in France, how much it is likely to cost you and the procedures involved in renting a property. If you have any questions for Alexis on renting homes in France, email france@overseasguidescompany.com Why rent? Renting a home long term in France can be an [...]
Alexis Goldberg of the FranceBuyingGuide.com helps readers with their questions about buying and living in France. If you need a question answering, email france@overseasguidescompany.com Our plan is to buy a renovation project and convert it into a home and a couple of gites to earn an income from. We are at the beginning of our [...]
Alexis Goldberg of the FranceBuyingGuide.com helps readers with their questions about buying and living in France. If you need a question answering, email france@overseasguidescompany.com We've recently moved from the UK to Charente in France, just east of Confolens. We are very nearly settled in but are still undecided as to which provider to choose [...]
The success of the a new four-star leaseback development in family-friendly ski resort Le Chinaillon, in Le Grand Bornard in France, has prompted the same developer to build another one in the village. With all but two of the 180 apartments sold within the 12 traditionally-styled chalets completed in December in Le Village de Lessy, [...]
Let’s face it, enjoying wonderful wine is one of the reasons why many of us are deeply in love with France. But the question is - do you know where your favourite tipple comes from? Languedoc Roussillon spans 150 miles along the Mediterranean coastline all the way from the border with Spain to the region [...]
Alexis Goldberg of the FranceBuyingGuide.com helps readers with their questions about buying and living in France. If you need a question answering, email france@overseasguidescompany.com "We’ve bought in the Languedoc and are due to move in June, or hopefully earlier. If we have room in the removal van what would you suggest we bring? We [...]
The Overseas Guides Company helps readers with their questions about buying and living in France. If you need a question answering, email france@overseasguidescompany.com My partner and I recently purchased a small house in the Dordogne. Once we had received the keys, we met with our builder (who had been recommended by the agent) to [...]
Can you guess how much this idyllic French property costs? The truth is, for too many British people it’s impossible to say. Why? Because fluctuating exchange rates mean typical buyers from the UK don’t know until the day they make a currency transfer how many pounds they’ll need to exchange to meet the agreed local [...]
Remember the halcyon days of 1.5 euros to the pound? When Graham Causton and his partner Donna first moved to France that was about the rate they could expect to get when sending money over from the UK. But that was back in 2001 and since then the economic crisis has seen the pound’s [...]
Possibly the deal of the decade, a small hamlet in rural France has been put on the market for the price of a typical one-bedroom flat in London, namely £275,000. The price for Courbefy in the Limousin, made up of 19 buildings, including houses and a village hall, as well as a swimming pool, stables [...]