A selection of our analyses, translated for international buyers: buying in France as a non-resident, hôtels particuliers, off-market access, transfer duties and cross-border risks.
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A Paris buyer who budgets 7% for costs is now out by a point and a half. Since April 2025, almost all départements apply the 5.00% ceiling on transfer duties, and these sums cannot be financed with a loan. It remains to understand what they cover and what becomes of them on the day of resale.
Read the analysis →A Paris buyer who budgets 7% for costs is now out by a point and a half. Since April 2025, almost all départements apply the 5.00% ceiling on transfer duties, and these sums cannot be financed with a loan. It remains to understand what they cover and what becomes of them on the day of resale.
The asking price is the least uncertain figure in a property purchase abroad. What decides the outcome lies elsewhere: in the currency of income, in the cost of entry and exit, in annual holding taxes, in a family's ability to take decisions collectively. A review of these parameters, applied to the French case.
Confidentiality is not a sales pitch; it is a constraint some sellers impose on themselves for family, professional or tax reasons. It opens a parallel market to the buyer, narrower and less documented. This note explains how to access it, what a search mandate really commits the parties to, and why the absence of competition is never a guarantee of price.
A price per square metre says almost nothing about the quality of an asset. In Paris, two apartments listed at the same level can diverge sharply on resale, depending on the building, the layout and the condition of the co-ownership. This note sets out the criteria that build lasting value at the top end of the Paris market, and those that erode it unnoticed.
Set between courtyard and garden, the Parisian hôtel particulier (private mansion) changes hands a few dozen times a year, mostly off market. Its price is hard to read per square metre, its cost of entry has exceeded 8% since the increase in transfer duties, and its status as a single-owner building triggers obligations that an apartment in a co-ownership building does not face. A method of analysis before making an offer.
French law places no barrier in the way of a foreign buyer: no approval, no nationality requirement, no residence condition. The difficulty lies elsewhere, in the sequence of deadlines, the real cost of entry, the currency of the buyer's income and the choice of holding structure. A review of the points on which a non-resident purchase is won or lost.
Buying a rare property means being informed before others and deciding on the basis of a sound file. The search mandate organises that position: a written framework, a prioritised brief, a budget that includes transfer duties, and a value analysis that places each property in its market tier rather than taking its sales pitch at face value.
