 Planning
your move
As the number of house buyers looking at France seems once more to be on the
increase, we’re starting a little
series today which will take you through all the steps from when you first
have the idea of moving to France or just buying a Summer home here to settling
in.
These
Over the course of our little series, we’ll cover all aspects of buying a
house in France in enough detail to let you do it with the least amount of
hassle. If you’ve already started you can skip a few chapters so to speak by
consulting our Moving to France guide and if you’re even further ahead and
beginning to settle in our
Living in France guide. If you need any services, try
our ex-pat services directory; it may be smaller than yahoo but it’s a lot easier
to find the services that you’ll require in it.
So, once you’ve decided that you’d like to buy a house in France, where do
you start?
Buying a house in France or any country other than your own is a major
undertaking and you should never underestimate the amount of work that it will
involve. Not only is the language different but the processes that you need to
go through are different from those in your own country. Moreover, if you are
intending to live full-time in the house then you’ll need to organise moving
your furniture from one country to another which is never cheap. That’s before
you even consider that chances are you’re moving from somewhere in a town or
city to somewhere in a country and even doing that in your own country can be a
bit of a culture shock before you start adding in the complications of a new
language, culture, social security systems and the like.
With so many things to consider you might be thinking that it’s an impossible
task. It’s not, but you do need to put a fair amount of effort into the planning
of your move if you want it to be a success and that’s where this series will
help you as it will cover all aspects of buying a house in France over the
course of the next few months but in bite-size chunks so that you’re not
overwhelmed by it.
Planning your move is very much key to a successful move to France. To do
this you will need to sit down and sketch out all the things that you need to do
and when they need to be done. The list will be very long, but don’t worry about
that, just try to make sure that everything that needs to be done is on the list
and it will all work out in the end.
Anyway, that’s probably enough of an introduction for now. Over the coming
weeks, we hope to provide you with information on everything that you need to
know in order to plan your house purchase in France.
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