Buying a house in France | Part 1: Location, location, location!
#This is the first in a series of videos about buying a house in France. We talk about our own personal experiences and also offer information and advice for others who may be interested in living in France.
First up in the series: location! Rebecca discusses why we chose the area we did and offers some things to bear in mind when doing your own house search.
00:00 Intro
00:15 Finding an estate agent
01:18 Choosing a location - how rural do you want to be?
02:16 What we were looking for
02:50 Expensive vs affordable regions
03:20 Indre et Loire - why our department is perfect
04:01 Our local community
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Welcome to Living in the Loire, we are a young family in rural France, renovating previously poorly converted barns. We aim to do most of the work ourselves, being as frugal and as eco as possible! We are learning on the job and we hope to share the skills we pick up along the way.
When possible we will take you on a tour of the region (the garden of France) sharing with you the numerous chateaux, towns and markets. As well as the house we will be transforming the garden, bringing part of it back to its previous use as a potager. This is our dream and one of the main reasons of leaving the city to move to the countryside in France.
Join us on our journey!
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Great video! It's so interesting finding out about property purchases in France. Not that I'm in the market for a French property! I wish! Big hugs xxx
Well done, a great video. Very similar our experience. We love our location and we feel its the best of both worlds. We are in the Vienne and the distance to Saumur, Poitiers and Tour is similar.
Brilliant x
You are very good at this. Have you been a tv news anchor? I always enjoy your videos 🌸💗🌸💗
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
Haha I wish! Think our budget would have been bigger if I had been 😂😀
Nice, clear, easy to understand video and similar to our experience. Only difference is that we found the "English" agents did try and get more money than the French and were sometimes badly informed on French electrics, fosse septiques etc. Both times we bought they were through French agents .
@LivingintheLoire
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Jayne, good to know!
Really enjoying your videos about buying a property in France. We have just bought a house in France so have had very similar experiences to you, it's brings back all the memories!
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you're enjoying them Claire. Whereabouts did you buy?
@clairecarvalho2230
2 жыл бұрын
@@LivingintheLoire we have bought in Manche, Normandy! Looking forward to getting back to France to start the work!
Very nice presentation. Informative and knowledgeable. Great job!
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Margie!
My theory about the amount of land needed is how willing are you to dig a garden with a hand shovel? How many animals do you want? Finally, how many fences are you willing to build? If the answer to any of these is "not many", keep it under an acre (or two). Lol
I must say, as a Canadian I find the idea that an hour from the shops is "super rural", let's say "quaint".
I'm not surprised that it is this region from watching your recent blog. My family has a property in Indre et Loire near Loches (biggest town) and the land and houses look so similar (not even counting the town and chateaux pictures). I don't know how you are able to go food though. The land is so dry and unbelievably hard. We aren't able to dig our garden manually because it's like concrete. I saw so many field of completely dry and burnt sunflowers this year because it was so hot and dry :(
@LivingintheLoire
Жыл бұрын
Yes we saw lots of dry fields too. Giving our beds a massive mulch of compost made such a difference! It really helped keep the moisture in. In addition having drip irrigation so it went to the roots and minimised evaporation.
Thank you so much for taking the time to produce this series of videos 😀 Have been meaning to ask. Did you buy your home after Brexit? Got a little lost with the timeline in your older videos. Keep up the great content 👍🏻 and have a lovely weekend when it comes
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
It ended up being mid-Brexit 😂. We bought after Brexit was voted on but before it came into action.
@graffigdesign8977
2 жыл бұрын
@@LivingintheLoire Ah gotcha! After investigating a move over there, it feels a little more daunting now :( Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly.
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
@@graffigdesign8977 there are definitely more hoops to jump through now however it's definitely possible.
@graffigdesign8977
2 жыл бұрын
@@LivingintheLoire I'm going to hopefully visit some regions in a few months time. Currently snowing here in Scotland, so a change of scene would be lovely. Take care.
That was a really helpful vlog...looking forward to the next one. Do either of you speak French? Be safe and be well x
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
Good question! Brook learnt French up to the age of 16 and Rebecca until 18 however for both of us that was quite a few years ago now! Brook is currently doing online lessons and will do a video about his experiences with that soon.
@seanadams6328
2 жыл бұрын
@@LivingintheLoire Thank you. do you find the locals help you to learn?
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
@@seanadams6328they're certainly very patient with our attempts and appreciative of any effort you make to speak the language. We're going to do a live chat soon so will delve into this in a bit more detail there ☺️
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I d recommend large estate agencies not small ,internet cowboys.The bureaucy in France will baffle potential buyers when they get to the notaire stage. Be aware of A and B list prices. Rural property should be very cheap. The French are nt attracted by rural life.
Hi i got a question, when you started your business did you get the work visa for france due to brexit?
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
Hi, we didn't need to get visas because we arrived before the end of 2020. We just had to apply for a residency permit (carte de sejour) once we were here which was very straightforward.
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What is your impression of the internet infrastructure in rural france? I am a songwriter, and create stock music for licensing- a decent internet connection is imperative for myself. My wife and i are gearing toward retiring to france in a year or so, and we’d love something close to a village, with a nice garden for her to raise chickens and vegetables.
@LivingintheLoire
11 ай бұрын
Very, very variable. We are super rural but have had fibre for the last couple of years. However we know of people closer to larger cities that don't have fibre and only have slow/patchy internet. In that case some people go down the starlink route.
Why France?
@LivingintheLoire
2 жыл бұрын
Hi there, we cover this a bit in our 'Why we moved to rural France' video and will also discuss it more in our upcoming live chat. Basically because we could speak a bit of French and it's easily accessible from the UK.
@junzhang2087
5 күн бұрын
Don’t buy, just rent.