Life in France — Blog — Cepheid Studio.

If you’ve missed the big news….my husband/teammate/bedfellow/legend and I bought a run down house in the French countryside! You can read the introductory post here, and learn about the paperwork and logistics (fun!) here.

In this instalment is what the very first day of home ownership looked like, yippee!

Atelier CharneddyCepheid Studio19 February 2019Atelier Charneddy, France, Life in FranceComment

How to buy a house in France

Going from finding your dream house to actually buying it and getting the keys can be a long journey, but in our experience it was way smoother to buy a house in France vs. in the UK. The main reason for this seems to be that rather than the buyer having their solicitor, and the seller having a different solicitor, in France it’s the norm to have one ‘notaire’ who deals with the whole transaction. This makes SO much sense!