Tweedpipe

After having your offer accepted I imagine you must be jumping for joy, or at least your better half is........

TimFountain

You should ask here what she calls herself before passing judgement....

Tweedpipe

Just to wind you up a bit.....
Our French-born, anglo-French son, during one of my many overseas assignments, was excited when I announced that we'd decided he would live in the UK with Mme TP for approx a year. When I returned a year later and asked how he enjoyed things, his very first reply was, "It was great, all the kids called me The Frog! That was brilliant" And with a wicked smile he added, "They'd never seen a frog play cricket before!"
We then moved back to France for a short period, and in his new French school (after being asked where he'd come from with his newly practised accent) he was immediately given the nickname Ze Rosbif, which he took to very proudly! In fact the way he accepted it - with humour, more than likely increased his popularity. I can't vouch for it, but knowing him he may well have told his new French friends that he enjoyed his morning plate of baked beans with plenty of garlic.......

Jack_Russells4ever

France is not the only place in the EU with worthless Eastate agents. For a moment I thought this thread was about Estate agents here in Hungary. Totally worthless, Never return emails, never return voice mails and seldom can be found at their offices. 6 years ago when I was in the market for a property here in Hungary trying to find a property was a nightmare. I finally found an agent that wanted to sell a property and found the property I purchased. Subsequently I learned from the Hungarian neighbours that their experiences are just a bad. Customer service is a joke here.

TimFountain

Just a quick update. The acte de vente has just been signed and we now own our slice of France. We did find a very proactive and helpful RE agent for this sale.

As a sidenote, I am discovering the joys of a landlocked piece of agricultural land. Backstory - we made an offer to buy the 5.5 acres of meadow that was for sale, behind the property, mainly to preserve the very pleasing view. Turns out that the original access to the field was lost when an old peoples home was built a few houses down from ours. The marie at the time brokered a deal to allow access across another field to the meadow, which was signed by the meadow owner and the owner of the small field through which access was granted. This was all done more that 30 years ago. Fast forward to today, and the owner of the small field has passed away and the son of the owner has managed to get the land use of that 1 acre field changed from agricultural to buildable and is trying to sell the 1 acre plot. He is refusing to acknowledge the right of way his mother signed. I understand his viewpoint, but it looks like this will go to court for a judge to decide, as land rights-of-way that have been enjoyed for more than 30 years appear to carry a lot more weight in terms of enforcement. We'll see. We have told the owner of the 1 acre plot that we would be willing to buy the plot, but not this year as funds are tight. It's a mess and the owner of the 5.5 acre meadow is very PO'd with the son.

Listen Very Carefully

Well best of luck taking a case to court in France is all I can say...

TimFountain

It isn't me who will be going to court. It's the owner of the meadow, who is very PO'd that their sale has been harpooned by the owner of the other field. The Marie fully supports the original access agreement and will speak for the meadow seller. I'm just watching from the sidelines!