How to successfully purchase your property in France THE FOUR POINT PLAN TO SUCCESS Step 1 - SELECTION To make your best selection you will need to carrying out some research. Some questions for you to think about: - What climate to I want? - Nearest airport or ferry? - Do I want beaches, skiing, rolling countryside, mountain views? - Do I want to be in a town, village or rural? - Am I looking to live in France permanently, looking for a holiday home or somewhere to produce an income? - Land - Am I looking for lots of land or a small garden? - Am I looking for a "move in" property or a restoration project? - Am I looking for a personal use property or space for gites? (The average gite can make £5,500 per year.) Two methods of selecting your property: Method 1 - Specific Our database of properties is automatically updated instantly as soon as we are informed of changes, making our list of properties for sale much more accurate and up to date than any of the French magazines listing properties (these all have at least a minimum of 4 week lead times due to printing and distribution). One important fact to remember about buying property in France, is that the Buyer always pays the French Estate Agent fees not the Seller (as in the UK). The impact of this is that the Seller will more often than not, put the property for sale on with more than one Agent as it will not cost him/her any more money to do this. Consequently, if you have choosen a specific property off our database, you will need to act very swiftly and get to France as quickly as possible as someone else may have also seen the same property and it may well have been sold before you even get to France. This is unfortunately true for everybody working with French properties. Method 2 - Type By the time you have carried out your research, you will have a general idea of the type of property that would be ideal for you. We maintain over 750 properties on our constantly updated website and our agents offices have more than 5,000 more on their books, so there will always be a vast selection of the type of property perfect for you.

Selection	Viewing	Purchasing	Owning
A holiday home, a permanent home, income producing or "get-away-from-it-all"?	An organised itinerary or skid up and down the country exhausting yourself	Making that ideal property your own	We will guide you through the bureaucratic maze of red tape that awaits the unwary