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Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Things y.m.n.t know. Buying in France 2

Property finder Alison Morton gives you a rundown of how property buying in France works. Part 2. The hints This guide is only intended to be helpful information. Buyers and sellers should always seek professional advice. Things to be aware of It is very important to deal with a properly registered agent who holds a carte [...]

A guide to our Barn Conversion in Poitou Charentes. What happened next?

What happened next? When I set about writing the above entitled articles, the idea was that they would be a continuous story of how the work was progressing, and how this was changing our lives. As with most of these things personal circumstances changed and situations dictated that for the year to eighteen months after [...]

Things y.m.n.t know.Buying in France 1

In two parts, Property finder Alison Morton gives you a rundown of how property buying in France works. Part 1. The system This guide is only intended to be helpful information. Buyers and sellers should always seek professional advice. The general way it works Buyer and seller agree on the price and the terms of [...]

A guide to our Barn Conversion in Poitou Charentes. D.I.Y. or G.S.I.

D.I.Y. or G.S.I. D.I.Y.= Do -it- yourself, G.S.I.= Get Step someone in. So far we have looked at our project as a means of establishing what we wanted to do ourselves and where expert help was going to be needed. This dilemma is one that everybody buying a property in France with “potential” faces. Invariably [...]

Things t.m.y.g. Hmmmmm. Plans,Budgets & Accounts

Plans, Budgets and Accounts. For reasons unknown this is a topic that tends to invite comment and hot debate. This is strange as at the heart of the matter are plain and simple mathematics. O.K maybe not so plain, or simple. Architects and Surveyors will tend to offer guideline figures for renovation or conversion projects ranging [...]

A guide to our Barn Conversion in Poitou Charentes. Project Management

Project Management   The previous article left us at the stage where we had obtained planning permission consent for our conversion. The vision of what we wanted now existed in two places; in our imagination and in two dimensions on six sheets of A1 sized paper, which were suitably stamped as approved by the local [...]

Suppliers of Hardware, Providers of Services

This is a list of companies and people we have used ourselves, or with other people, in the course of renovating, converting properties in France.Introduction These pages categorise the various suppliers into country and activity. Their websites are available as links from each page and provide a useful resource of specialist vocabulary, materials availability, up [...]