Hi

ive been trying to get hold of an immobillier in brittany and keep getting the answering machine - i can make out that it is saying they are closed lol
and that the opening hours are .... i think ........ between douze 12 and dix huit - 6pm but cant quite work out the rest

can someone help please?

what are the usual open hours of estate agents/ notaires offices in brittany ?

is it a bank holiday or similar today and thats why they could be closed?

what do messages on answering machines in france usually say?.... in england it would be something like: this office is closed and you cannot leave a message, our normal hours of opening are between 9am and 5pm .... (I guess i am presuming that the message says something similar lol)

its a rather fast message and i have to admit i do still struggle with translating spoken french especially when its not face to face (find i can usually get the gist of conversations easier when i can see facial/body expressions lol )

hope someone can help
abbs x

Hi Abbs.

I think you'll find that most estate agents and notaries are shut on Mondays, or at least Monday mornings, so this is what they may be saying. Some notaries open on Monday afternoons (abt 2 pm) but I can't be sure about estate agents. This being winter and the 'off-season' tho' they may be shut until Easter.
Blackie

thanks Blackie,

now that you have said that I think i can make sense of the rest of the message lol i thought it said something about aujourd'hui - today? and then another number which i couldnt quite get but it may have been duex which now sort of makes more sense ... thats i was thinking it might be a bank holiday doh

thanks a lot i will try again later then
fingers crossed haha x

Not a Bank Holiday here today. The French normally use the 24 hr. clock and say "quatorze heures" for 2 p.m.
I shouldn't think you'd be allowed to post the telephone number here, otherwise one of us could have rung it, to interpret the message!
Best of luck!

thanks dmu

i never thought of posting it on here lol ....... guess thats against the rules then huh?

I guess I will have to send another email it was just that I have seen this house for sale before and when I enquired they said it had sold and took it off the site, it reappeared this weekend after being off a month - I am hoping that whoever went to buy it has pulled out and that it isnt a BAIT HOUSE like they have in spain (prior to getting ill we looked at many houses in spain, the estate agents always showed us different ones and never took us to the ones i had asked to see - we decided that they didnt exist = bait house to get you over so that they can sell you anything else but! )

having wasted 12 months going back and forth to spain to see non existing houses (was only moving to spain because my brother lives there lol) I decided enough was enough and I was going to Brittany where I really loved - I love the area, the people and so far I'm again not having much luck with the houses I find am I doing something wrong do you think?

BUT THIS HOUSE .......... It's THE ONE you know ? when you see a place and you just go wow i love it! thats how this one got me lol and I just want to do all that i can not to miss out again

thanks for everyones advice and help with this question - i'm off to write another email lol wish me luck x

I assume you have checked the web to see if they have their own site, or even a cross-ref from a regional/local, publicity/immobilier linked site.

I think all houses for sale in France are on seloger.com

not all but most

well got through and spoke to notaire......... she said it had been sold - computer gliche put it back on the site by mistake - gutted!!!

thanks for all your help though x

Hi, damn bad luck,
If you know of a property finder in the area (rather than an Estate Agent), you could mail him/her a picture of the house you just missed and ask them to find something similar in the same price range.
Blackie

well thank you all for your help - we got one! lol sooooo soooooooo happy - although now im nervous and worried in case anything goes wrong doh!
but many thanks for all your advice x