Avoid mistakes. Understand how the French real estate buying process works with ESREA France
Selling a French property? As required by current French laws you are not permitted to market your property for sale with or without an agency without having completed the diagnostic test for energy efficiency. This is called the DPE.
If your French property is in a ‘co-propriété’ you will also need to get the test of Loi Carrez completed before the property can be marketed.
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Click the link below for the most recent French Real Estate Property Historical Pricing Trends. You will arrive at the English page on the Government of France website. The page shows historical trends in French real estate and property as of May 2019
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Make sure that the French property you wish to buy in an area that appears calm and quiet is in fact calm and quiet all year round. This means you will need to visit your favorite French real estate area when it is sunny and not so sunny. Sometimes a peaceful quiet area in the winter is a busy place that you will not like in the summer.
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Did you ever visit a friend’s house and use the washroom and find out you could not turn off the tap fully? It just kept on dripping a little bit of water. You told our friend and they said ‘Yes, I just have not fixed it’.
As a friend it is no big deal but to a buyer the fact a simple task like fixing a tap is not done suggests to the buyer that the seller most likely is neglecting to take care of other parts of the home as well.
When you are shopping for French real estate and you want to find the best opportunity in terms of price it is a smart plan to shop in the winter months in France. This is when most seller’s are more negotiable with their pricing.