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It’s hard to believe, but the Summer has just slipped away. Time seems to go faster the older we get…because all things being relative, one Summer among 50 is a much smaller quantity than one among 20. (Remember when you were 20 years old and each year of college seemed like an eternity?…You couldn’t wait to get out into the real world!)
This weekend has been unusually quiet in the City of Light, as vacationers are planning their return today to gear up for “La Rentrée” — the REAL new year in France. Lots of businesses have signs on their doors announcing a reopening tomorrow, so I imagine the autoroute is bumper to bumper re-entering the city to head home after a few weeks in the country or at the seashore.
This means for us, that more properties will soon come on to the market, the agents will be back in their offices and the real estate market will get back underway. This week’s Nouvel Observateur ran its quarterly real estate issue announcing the latest property prices in Paris and in the Ile-de-France.
For us this was old news…because by the time the magazine is able to write and publish the figures, the statistics for the following quarter are already announced! In fact, French Property Insider ran the newer report in the August 17th issue!
Still, it’s worth reading the Nouvel Observateur for their point of view, as they interview agents in many of the districts to track the trends — a very important process when it comes to real estate investment.
One thing to always keep in mind when reviewing the cost per square meter figures is that you can never count on them being correct! The property price figures for Paris and the Paris region (Ile-de-France) are reported quarterly by the INSEE, the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies. Two weeks ago the statistics were released for the end of first quarter 2006, almost five months after the closing of the month. Given that the properties to which the statistics relate were purchased about three months earlier than the deeds were recorded (the time between the signing of the Promesse/Compromis de Vente and the Acte de Vente, you can assume then, that these figures are already out of date by eight months. That means that those same properties would have appreciated 8.5% within those eight months, based on the annual appreciation of 12.7%.
Other factors that contribute to this variance are: 1) the reduction in the purchase price, which can be attributed to direct payments made to the sales agent to help reduce notaire fees, 2) the listing of inventory of fixed furniture such as built-ins and appliances and 3)the under-the-table cash transactions, which are illegal but do occur. Finally, the figures are diluted as they are reported by an arrondissement in its entirety and do not account for differences by neighborhoods.
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