french property terms

Since we letting our Holiday Rentals in Brittany, we have a steady stream of visitors looking for property in Brittany, in the Vilaine / Redon / La Roche-Bernard, but also beyond.

The prices in this area have done very well in recent years with investments often doubling the value from 2002 to 2007, and the market is now cooling. The prices are not cheap any more and the offer of real estate is for the renovation from year to year. However, there are many buildings, and there is an increasing amount of old-free property in the Bourges (= city / town centers).

This is a popular area for retirees and vacationers, and there is a large demand of people who come to Rennes, Nantes and Vannes.

Perhaps the best opportunities in this area are inland, in places such as Carentoir, Malansac, Questembert, etc..

How to start the search?

Most of our visitors, owned by a cruise around the hunting, the Brittany Estate Agents in areas like the look of it, but most do not know that notaires (lawyers) have a constant flow of properties, the heirs, so that they disposing of the usually something of interest, and they circulate (from office) newspapers, the only property ads.

Previously, there were one or two people speaking English in the economy here as a real estate agent for the promotion of French property to English people, but they seem less prominent these days, and yet the agent Brittany speak good English.

Before you go to find real estate agents in Brittany Google, in the 2700 entries for "Immobilier Breton" (brokers). Agency records can be higher than in England and pays for itself in ..

Visits to the properties are usually accompanied, and their whereabouts are closely guarded secrets - the agents are nervous that the offerings of the private deal.

How to buy your property Brittany

If you have a property you like you will be asked a "compromis de vente" (sale agreement), unless the property is hidden and all the "vices caches" (= hidden problem) then you are legally committed to the sale. However, the agreement to make, such as the building permit, and the like.

Conveyancing is a legal level and the only way of escaping the charges, the (illegal) hide part of the value of the transaction. You might also ask how we once were, whether any part of the agreement was done "under table" "" "(= under the table).

Completion is known as the "Acte '. This is usually a very French occasion. Buyers and sellers come together in the offices of the sales notaire, and the entire transmission to be read with the notaire control in each stage that everything properly understood. In the case of a transfer, we went to the sale notaire half-whispered own notaire "" If these people know what's going on? ".

Living in Brittany with your new property.

Although our property hunting visitors have shown very clearly over the years that no experience is necessary for living in France, those who come to a new career find life extremely difficult, as France has measures that the new start-ups , and employers are not interested in the British people. Be warned!

Of the rest, that we all know, are still there.

France is a very nice place to be and by all countries in Europe is the next in the language and the landscape in the United Kingdom.

Mostly we all learn to speak French well, but often in the case of married couples will learn French and the other not.

In Brittany itself, English people are very well treated, better than Paris or exasperated Germans and especially the locals, if they do not learn French.

Bon chance!

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