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Forum: France
Sep 20th 2014, 8:42 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

I wish I shared your optimism mate. In the sufficiently long term you may well be right, but on a timescale of 10 years? Sounds a bit like the nuclear fusion jocks who've been saying it'll be viable...
Forum: France
Sep 20th 2014, 4:21 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

Hi Biggles; I'm curious as to what makes you think that?
Forum: France
Sep 18th 2014, 9:53 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

I wonder why I have a strong feeling that touraine will be along soon with a less than kind remark of some sort?
Forum: France
Sep 12th 2014, 10:19 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

That's actually a good point. You should check that out for every location you might otherwise be interested in.

Other things you might not have thought of:

Will you have proper sewers or a...
Forum: France
Sep 12th 2014, 3:57 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

:rofl:

I always thought that was true for us as well, but I met another Brit this summer who had just retired to Normandy after a career spent in Lorraine.

There's also a maison secondaire...
Forum: France
Sep 11th 2014, 8:24 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

Fair enough, but I'm not so sure that that's what "most normal" people in France do. Most "normal" french people rent while they are younger and then some inherit the family home at some point. They...
Forum: France
Sep 10th 2014, 8:13 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

I've not been on this thread very recently and want to belatedly welcome touraine to the discussion. He (or she?) makes some excellent points, but, reading between the lines I think from the point of...
Forum: France
Sep 7th 2014, 4:46 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

True. Have a glass of wine.
Forum: France
Sep 7th 2014, 3:52 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

Sorry. Blame my Latin master at O-level. But it's a correct plural even though forums is more common.
Forum: France
Sep 7th 2014, 3:05 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

Agreed. I was trying to be succinct, but of course there are and always will be, people like that. We see them all the time on this forum and on all the other BE fora for other countries. My point...
Forum: France
Sep 6th 2014, 10:49 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

The pound hung around parity with the euro for several years after 2008, down from much higher levels earlier in the decade. In addition many people from the UK lost their jobs or found themselves in...
Forum: France
Sep 6th 2014, 4:41 pm
Replies: 175
Views: 13,675
Posted By Novocastrian

Re: Buying property - market trends?

In Brittany (and many other places) there are lots of properties at relatively cheap prices, especially in rural areas. It is a buyers market, in part because many expats have been forced to give up...
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