Advice on selling
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Advice on selling
Hi, We are thinking of selling our house and attached 3 room chambres d'hote near Mont St Michel, but are worried about firstly, putting it on the market now when all the Brexit fallout makes everything so uncertain for UK buyers, but also how to effectively market it. We talked to a local agent and were very underwhelmed. She is selling property around the €100,000 mark, and uninterested. We feel that another couple or family from the UK would be more likely to pay a reasonable price for our business than French and also about 50% of the guests are anglophones. Any experience or advice anyone?
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French agents are useless, especially once you have been on the books for a while - we sold ours within a week of being listed in April 2012, sadly buyer(UK citizen relocating from Singapore) dropped out as wife was diagnosed with terminal illness, since then have had 2 possible buyers(French) who have been unable to secure mortgage.....will be 5 yrs in April. Some UK based agents are pro-active when you initially list with them (Leggetts, Beaux Village etc), but most can't be bothered, as for the French agents - a complete waste of time - took months to get local agents to come look, half of them never bothered to list on their websites, rest we have not heard a peep from (Century 21, Mercure etc) Be prepared for a long wait. A French colleague of mine bought her current B&B 10yrs ago with a bridging loan when she thought her previous B&B was sold - she lost her buyer & 5 others since - she now has 2 properties on market..... with current financial situation & elections in France in May, we are just going to have to continue & wait & see.... Good Luck
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Thanks all. Le bon coin might be worth a go. Depressingly, prices are very, very depressed. More so than ever.
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We sold in September and as Penny says, French estate agents were useless for us. We sold privately in the end; I made a 'for sale' website and we advertised in various places but found our buyer from our ad on the Acceuillir Magazine website. We sold to a French couple but had other European interest in our place too. There are people out there looking for a lifestyle change.
Bon courage,
Jan
Bon courage,
Jan