Avoid mistakes. Understand how the French real estate buying process works with ESREA France
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French real estate tip of the day: One of the most important steps you need to take BEFORE making an offer on a French real estate property is to completely review the diagnostic reports. If you don’t know what these are you need to read this article on what diagnostic reports you get when you buy a French property.
We also suggest your read this warning.
And get yourself a copy of this
Dutch microbiologist and inventor Hendrik Marius Jonkers appears to have a solution that is supposed to come to market this year.
The solution is actually a solution of bacteria that is added to concrete that is used to build a home. Additional plans underway is a spray on treatment of the bacteria that can fill those nasty cracks appearing on your beautiful French home.
Sound strange? The bacteria actually exists naturally in rocks.
How it works
In general, the bacteria which is mixed into the concrete is activated from sleep in the presence of water that enters the cracks in the concrete. Then as the bacteria lives it secretes the same product that is used in concrete, thereby filling the cracks.
Watch this amazing video below for more details.
It could be a solution you have been waiting for.
STOP and avoid this mistake when selling French real estate.
In France at this moment in time there is no completely united multiple listing service with a system that offers access to actual sale prices.
As a result many French property owners whether they are selling with an agent or on their own make the worst mistake possible when they are pricing their property.
The mistake is:
French property owners often look at comparable homes for sale on the market and using the ‘list price / for sale price’ as a guideline for their own pricing.
Experienced real estate professionals know that the list price of a property is not the sale price. It is just a wish.
Make sure if you are planning on selling your French real estate you get a professional opinion of value based on actual sale prices.
We can connect you with an English speaking French real estate agent contact us here
WARNING about French real estate advertising – the hidden detail.
When you read an article about a French real estate agent or agency that is praising the value of the person or company make sure you are not reading what is called an Advertorial.
An Advertorial is an advertisement that is written to make it look like it is a piece of editorial content.
A French real estate agency or agent will pay to have their self written praises on a site or in a magazine.
We recommend you make sure you are reading real not paid for editorial content.
We mention this because recently we have been getting phone calls from French real estate magazines and online services asking us to write content for their site and saying we can do this if we paid for the article placement. That is they want us to write an ‘advertorial’. They get content to boost their rankings and they get the writer to pay to place the article.
We don’t like this idea. We don’t pay to have our content placed on another site.
Indeed, we believe it is supposed to be noted on an advertorial article that it is in fact an advertisement but sometimes you have to search.
In contrast, as you will see on our site we have testimonials from people who have used our service and, this is the best advertisement for our quality of service.
Just scroll down to see comments on our work.