Growing Roots in the Southwest of France, Episode 344
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Are you dreaming about growing roots in the southwest of France? Georgia Broome does and tells us all about it!
Welcome to the Join Us in France Travel Podcast where we look around France so you can best enjoy France as a destination. We talk about French culture, history, gastronomy and everything it takes to have a lovely experience in France.
Today Annie Sargent brings you a conversation with Gerogia Broome about growing roots in the southwest of France. Georgia lives in England right now, but she grew up in France and has been on the lookout for a place of her own in France. She fell in love with a house she saw on-line, jumped on the opportunity despite the fact that this "maison de maître" needs a lot of TLC.
Follow Georgia's adventures on her Instagram account.
Advice for People Looking to Buy Property in France
- Le Bon Coin is a wonderful resource.
- Find an estate agent you trust and remember that they can approach the seller for a home they don't list in their agency.
- Know what you're buying into: termites, lead paint, asbestos, be on the lookout for those problems.
- Tradesmen are expensive in France, more expensive than in the UK.
- Promptly setup to pay local taxes on-line so you don't incur any penalties.
- You can use TransferWise to move money around, and you can also use them before you have a bank account in France because they can give you a RIB (relevé d'identité bancaire which are your bank details).
- Don't read all the negative stories because you'll talk yourself out of doing anything that way.
- Ask around for recommendations on workmen.
Links You'll Need if Buying a Property in France
- This website gives you prices of properties per zip code
- This is a big "for sale by owner" site for France
- Le Bon Coin is a great place to buy or rent everything, including properties
- The French government publishes the official actual sale price of real estate by zip code
- An AI that lets you see properties for sale based on your criteria
More episodes about moving to France
Full show notes for this episode are here: https://joinusinfrance.com/344
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a join us in France episode 344. |
| 0:04.3 | Three Saint-Caron-C |
| 0:01.0 | four! |
| 0:06.0 | Mejou, I'm Annie Sergeant, and join us in France is the podcast where we look around France, |
| 0:11.2 | so you can best enjoy France as a destination. |
| 0:14.5 | We talk about French culture, history, gastronomy and everything it takes to have a lovely |
| 0:19.7 | experience in France. |
| 0:21.4 | Today I bring you a conversation with Georgia Broome about growing |
| 0:25.6 | roots in the southwest of France. Georgia lives in England and has been a |
| 0:30.8 | francophile her whole life. She fell in love with a house that needs some |
| 0:34.9 | TLC, to say the least, in the southwest. And she shares how she's going to about making it the home of her dreams. If you like what we do here at |
| 0:46.1 | join us in France consider supporting us by visiting join us in France.com for it slash |
| 0:51.0 | boutique to check out my cookbook my tours and services such as my |
| 0:56.3 | itinerary review where I help you craft the best vacation in France specifically for you. I've turned off the purchase page for a couple of weeks for the itinerary review service. |
| 1:10.0 | I'll turn it back on on July 21st 2021 because I'm taking my own summer break. |
| 1:16.7 | In the meantime take a look at my GPS self-guided tour of Paris at join us in France |
| 1:21.9 | dot com forward slash audio tours where you can take me in your pocket as you walk around Paris. |
| 1:28.4 | And I want to remind you that Elise who is such an integral part of this podcast and puts a lot of her time and |
| 1:35.0 | energy into it also has a Patreon page and I would love to see her get more support |
| 1:40.5 | from all of you go to patreon dot com for slash a lease art elys |
| 1:47.0 | s a r t to let her know how much you appreciate her. I certainly do. Follow addicted to France on |
| 1:55.6 | Instagram to see Georgia's photos of the things she loves in France. I'll post |
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