It’s a brave man who takes on a building project in rural France. Tradesmen pick their own working hours, neighbouring curtains constantly twitch, builders’ merchants close for long lazy lunches and materials delivered can bear little resemblance to those ordered as the details get lost in translation. Best leave it to the experts.
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It’s difficult to buy a home in the very sophisticated wine villages of Burgundy. This French region’s fertile land is worth much more to the locals cloaked in neat rows of vineyards than it is developed into modern housing so there is a real shortage of supply. But there is a solution and that’s to breathe a new lease of life into the derelict and the disused – enter specialists Arena Park France.
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As the credit crunch continues to freeze global markets, people are holidaying closer to home; a new trend which had a hugely positive impact for French ski resorts over the festive period, with 75 per cent of all ski accommodation booked solid…
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Winter wonderland came early to the Alps this year, with the annual winter snowfall arriving in October, far earlier than usual, which boosted buyers’ interest in buying ski properties…
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It seems that the British love affair with French property is not entirely over yet – at least, not if sales in French property developer MGM’s a new Le Telemark, Tignes alpine development are any indication.
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The cautious nature of French lending institutions hence property in France and in particular the Paris real estate market appears to have been less affected by the credit crunch and its resultant property price falls and lack of mortgage credit.

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Renowned for its fine wines, good gastronomy and liberating revolutions, France is one of the most popular property investment areas in the world, especially when it comes to quaint, remote, rural retreats. This month TheMoveChannel.com announces a number of new rural French property developments, looks at some of the regions that offer rustic charms and ponders the question, why is the French countryside so splendid?

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France is the number one tourist destination of the world, according to current figures released by the French Tourism Ministry, which show that approximately 82 million foreign tourists visited France in the year 2007. The number of foreign visitors is up 4% on 2006, however if compared to the number of French tourists visiting in earlier years, there has a major drop, decreasing from 11.9% to 9.1% from 1990 to 2008, and is a matter of concern for the French tourism, who believe new resorts springing up in emerging markets are largely to blame for France’s tourism decline.

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