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English Speaking
French Estate Agents
can apply to become affiliated with www.breton-homes.com
and list their Brittany properties for sale on this
and other Brittany property websites.
Click here for more information
about our Brittany Estate Agent Requirements.
Brittany Property
News...
Although property sales
have calmed in many areas of France. Brittany properties
are still selling strongly, proving that Brittany is
one of the best areas in the France to invest in a property
overseas. Brittany properties prove to be not only very
attractive purchases for the English market, they are
also increasingly popular with the Parisiens who also
seek a holiday house in Brittany or retirement properties
in Brittany.
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Place your Brittany Property
for sale on this website NOW!
Sell your house in
Brittany with one of our partner Brittany Estate Agents:
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Brittany
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Breton-Homes.com deals with selected
estate agencies in Brittany, to provide you with the best
service and choice of Brittany Property for sale. |
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In order to provide the
best service to our website visitors as well as the best
selection of Brittany Property for sale. We are selecting
only the best estate agents in Brittany to list their Brittany
property for sale. If we find that an agency is not working
professionally or is disappointing our clients, we will
remove them from our website and select another estate agency
to take their place on our Brittany property website. Our
goal is simply to provide the most comprehensive list of
Brittany Properties for sale, from the best estate agents
in Brittany and enable you to smoothly find your dream house
in Brittany France.
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Breton-Homes.com deals
only with fully registered English Speaking
French Estate Agents
in Brittany France with multi-lingual staff. |
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Unlike in the UK, where just about anyone can open an
estate agency and sell houses, to open an “Agence Immobilier”
in France and offer houses for sale you must have specific
qualifications, no criminal record, publish your tariffs,
have financial guarantees and insurances. For your peace
of mind, using a registered Estate Agency with a Carte Professional
number should be your first, and possibly most important
step in finding your property in Brittany. Breton-Homes.com
is proud to put you in contact only with a select number
of registered English speaking estate agencies in Brittany
France. We personally visit each agency to ensure they are
suitable to be included on our Brittany property websites.
We also form a close working relationship with our partner
estate agents.
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Breton-Homes.com prices for houses
for sale in Brittany include Agency fees.
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As with most other real estate websites for Brittany
we quote our prices as FAI (Frais d’Agence Inclus). This
means that all agency fees are included, but not the notaires
fees. We would like to display the notaires fees included
but now that we are working with several estate agents in
Brittany and not just one, we have to accommodate their
wishes and systems. So for the moment all of the Brittany
properties for sale on this website are FAI and do not include
the Notaires fees. We have started to develop a system to
incorporate the notaires fees for each property for sale
in Brittany on this website, but this will follow after
some other more pressing updates. Buying your property through
any of the estate agents that display their properties for
sale in Brittany on this website will cost you no more than
if you went directly to the estate agent in Brittany. –
All sales of properties in Brittany as in all of France
have to be handled by a Notaire, all this normally means
is that you will be paying the Notaires fees plus the agents
commission when you buy a house for sale in Brittany this
way. For further information about buying a house in Brittany.
See the magazine article
“To Buy or Not To
Buy”
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Breton-Homes.com has over 1000 properties
for sale in Brittany on this website.
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The properties and photographs
on our website are real houses, which are really for sale,
carefully chosen to give you an idea of the choice of Brittany
properties for sale in Brittany, and the difference in style
and prices of houses for sale and available in each of the
very different regions of Bretagne. As we are Brittanys
most popular English speaking estate agent website and have
many sales per month, our experience and affinity with our
clients and estate agencies has shown us that the best way
to choose a property in Brittany is not by looking at a
few blurred photographs over the internet but by actually
visiting houses for sale in Brittany with our estate agents.
By doing this, you get to see the views from the properties
for yourselves, meet the neighbours, or listen to the birdsong
in the trees, or to put it another way you will be able
to “test the ambiance” of having a house in Brittany. Our
extensive Brittany property database driven website has
been developed to give you quickly and easily, information
on real houses for sale in Brittany and to make it easy
to contact the selected Brittany estate agents to arrange
a viewing of your selected Brittany properties.
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| How to buy a Brittany Property -
the procedure to buying a house
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step in finding a house in Brittany and taking your first
step into the Brittany property market is to find the Brittany
Property that you like. By reading this, you must in fact
be on the right track, we have the best choice of selected
independent Brittany estate agents and Brittany Properties
for sale. The next step is to make a viewing appointment
and physically come and visit the Brittany properties that
interest you. Once you find the house in Brittany
that fits your requirements, you can make an offer via the
Brittany estate agent. If the offer is accepted then you
will have to sign a....
'Compromis de vente' which is simply a 'contract
agreeing to the conditions of the property sale'. Both yourselves
and the sellers have to sign this contract and it is legally
binding to both parties. However you can include some clauses
in the Brittany property purchase contract. When asked what
clauses can you put into your 'Compromis de Vente' - the
answer is - anything - well anything that the sellers
are likely to agree to, they after all want to sell their
Brittany Property and don't want to be held to any unreasonable
clauses. Often clauses are made in connection with a property
inspection by an architect, soil tests for
septic tank installations or mortgage approvals.
You will have a seven day cooling off period after
signing the property sales contract. If during the seven
days you wish to stop the process you simply notify your
Brittany estate agents by Fax or recorded delivery letter.
After the seven days cooling of period you will normally
be expected to pay a deposit of up to 10%, this can often
be negotiated.
'Acte de Vente' This is the final part of the
Brittany property sale. Normally you will have transferred
the final balance to be paid for your Brittany property
to a special bank account operated by the Brittany Notaire,
these bank accounts are stringently controlled. Once all
parties involved have signed this purchase contract, it
is final. That is to say that once signed, you are now the
owner of a house in Brittany and can take up residency in
your Brittany Property immediately. Often the Notaire
will slightly over charge you for certain land registration
fees etc and some time after your Brittany property purchase
(sometimes as long as a year) you will receive a small cheque
for the difference. The reason the Brittany Notaires do
this is because the calculations for the various government
bodies that take a part of the Notaire fees for land registry
etc, are very complicated. They over estimate slightly by
a couple of hundred euros or so, just to be sure to have
everything they need to pay for your Brittany Properties
title transfer.
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| Why buy a Brittany Property -
the reason for buying a house
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| There can be many
reasons for wanting to buy a house in Brittany. Often it
is the desire to have a holiday property in Brittany or
a permanent home in Brittany - buying your dream
property in Brittany to move over to with your family.
Sometimes the desire is simply a financial one: invest
into the euro zone with a return on investment in terms
of letting out your Brittany property as a holiday home
or as long term let.
Some property buyers use the latter
method as a means to an end. That is to say that they
finance their dream retirement property purchase with a
French property mortgage and fund the repayments with
rental income from their French property. This means
that not only can they benefit from having their
mortgage paid off by rental income but also the net gain
on their Brittany property value in the years to come.
France is a country of habitual property renters with
the majority of the French population renting their
property rather than buying, meaning that the property
rental market in France has always remained strong.
We have not only identified some
of the best lenders specialising in overseas and French
property mortgages, but have formed strong working
relationships with them in order to provide our website
visitors with an enviable choice of mortgages and
mortgage providers to help finance their Brittany
property purchase.
Click Here to get a no obligation
French Property Mortgage Quotation
In conjunction with our French
property mortgage providers we have formed relationships
with a leading currency exchange provider to help
Brittany property buyers get the best exchange rates and
services for exchanging UK Pounds Sterling into Euros,
or indeed exchange any traded currency into any other
traded currency.
This is why we are the Best
Choice in Brittany for properties for sale and for
French Mortgages and Currency Exchange.
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| Building a new house in Brittany -
Recommendation for energy efficient new build property
in Brittany France |
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| We have seen
recently an increase in people wanting a Brittany
Property that is energy efficient and environmentally
friendly. We believe we have found the perfect solution
for your Eco House in Brittany and it's a system that
comes from Canada, where they know all about extremes of
weather. The system is called Insulated Concrete Form,
is manufactured in Canada and distributed in the west of
France by a company you can contact here:
www.nudura-france.com the company is at it's core a
building and renovating company that have negotiated
rights to distribute the Nudura system:
www.arti-construction.com
SARL Arti Construction is also
capable of tackling large and small renovation projects
and is supplying and fitting
WPL Package Sewage Treatment plants in Brittany
where a traditional
septic tank system is either not suitable for the
property due to
land restraints or the client simply doesn't want to dig
up all of their garden. In French -
Micro Station d epuration
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So now you know why you
should use Breton-Homes.com to find you your
property in Brittany,
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