Chris1

I work on one of the biggest French Property websites www.francepropertyshop.com and it has been interesting watching the way in which the market has changed over the last year. Last summer, properties were selling fast and prices were strong, especially in the most popular areas. Strangely, even though people were talking about a crash in the market at the end of last year, we noticed that prices stayed stable well into this year and it wasn't until the Euro really increased in strength that sellers started dropping their prices. However the initial drop that we saw in properties selling wasn't anywhere near as large as people has predicted and indeed it now seems to have levelled out and started to increase again on our site. I feel that along with the strength of the euro in recent months, one of the main problems has been people and even the media, talking the market down. This has caused a a negative air around the French Property Market when really the state of the market remains strong. We are now seeing a noticeable increase in buyers from the UK market visiting the site to find property in France and are receiving more and more feedback from private sellers who have now sold their properties. As many people have already mentioned in this thread, the price of houses in the UK remains ridicously high compared to the French market and the number of UK buyers looking for property in France continues to grow. For any sellers out there who are currently marketing your properties to local buyers only, I would strongly recommend targeting to UK and international buyers as this opens you up to a much larger number of people searching for French property, especially useful if you are looking to sell without lowering the price of your property. There are many ways to do this, either through an agent that utilises websites and magazines to target UK or international buyers or by listing your property for sale privately. This can be done cheaply and easily and can prove to be a very effective way to find a buyer. Further information regarding tageting your property to the UK market can be found by clicking the link below... http://www.francepropertyshop.com/advertise.aspx