The Notaries of France have announced that there were 840 000 French real estate transactions in 2016 compared to 2015. That is an 11 percent increase in the number of sales.
Time to head to the market!
The increasing activity in the French property market has placed pressure on prices and in the following French towns there has been an increase in prices overall:
Lyon
Bordeaux
Lille
Nantes
Marseille
Reims
This is positive news after 4 years of dropping prices.
Interestingly, prices appear to be down in Nice, Montpellier, Angers and Saint Etienne at this time. Perhaps, this is a good moment to visit and invest in the areas where the price is going down especially since Nice on the French Riviera is an ever popular destination in France.
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