Last night we got word from French President Emmanuel Macron that we’re back in a modified lockdown as of tomorrow night at midnight. For four weeks, at least until December…

If you read Monday’s Parler Paris Nouvellettre® titled “‘Un Oeil’ on the Occitanie: From Nîmes to Collioure and Back,” then you already know about our excursion to the southwest of…

The Covid-Pandemic is far from over, even here in France. Last night, French President Emmanuel Macron ordered a nighttime curfew for Paris and eight other French cities to contain the…

Anne Hidalgo would like to extend Greater Paris to the sea! Seriously? Yes! No, this is not a joke. The current mayor of Paris has relaunched the idea emitted in…

An Op Ed piece ran in the New York Times yesterday titled “Will You Leave the Country if Trump Is Re-Elected?” I had to laugh. Duh, Ms Jennifer Finney Boylan,…

The legal battle against short-term rentals has won in the European Court of Justice, which must make Madame La Maire Anne Hidalgo very happy, but pisses off a whole lot…

During confinement, the real estate market in France stood still…very still for two solid months. Visits to properties were impossible. The usual players in the industry were not in their…

Long-term rental apartments in Paris are harder to find and more difficult to secure than is a property to purchase in Paris. By “long-term,” I refer to leases of one…

We’re back at work for La Rentrée and that means so are the tax administrators. They are busy preparing your property tax notices to issue to all of France sometime…

We are often asked by our American clients about an “inspection” prior to the purchase of property—an independent inspector to come to the house or apartment and perform a visual…