France, known for its fashion, craftsmanship, exquisite handmade cuisine and art, is collected and on display at Concept Stores throughout Paris. The perfect places to find beautiful French made goods. Whether for you or the perfect gift to bring home, you are sure to find the best of the best.  Empreintes With a 600 square […]

The City of Lights. The City of Love. Home of (basically) every delicious food. Inventors of perfume and scented candles. Centre of culture, arts, and fashion. What more could you want? Well, perhaps a quick and easy neighborhood guide to where to find all of it! Figuring where to live and spend your time in […]

Energy efficiency document now required for all Paris apartment purchases. With new rules taking effect April 1st of this year, fixing Paris apartment energy ratings is a hot topic on the minds of owners, buyers, and renters. From improving residential insulation to new ventilation and heating systems, it’s the latest step in making Paris a […]

The French face many new obstacles to becoming owners in 2023, lending restrictions, rising interest rates, inflation, the climate crisis and fuel crisis. The real estate market could easily continue its decline, given the number of clouds that are gathering over it, even as the attraction to the the safe haven of owning historic buildings […]

The year 2023 is off to a slow start for the French real estate market. Since the beginning of January, prices at the national level have fallen by -0.2%. Since the end of 2022, all areas of the real estate market have gone into the red, a phenomenon we have not seen since 2014. While […]

American buyers have been pouring into the Parisian market since last summer. Low borrowing rates, the rising value of the US Dollar and the ever rising prices in the US, makes French property extremely advantageous for American buyers. According to a recent Coldwell Banker network survey of luxury real estate trends, which surveyed 2,000 affluent […]

The common difficulty of renting an apartment in Paris is getting even harder and the future seems to hold even more restrictions, limiting the supply even more.    According to a study by PAP (De Particulier à Particulier), there have never been so few properties available to rent from the start of the 2022 school […]

A new rent control system was started in Paris in July 2019. After that the system was set up in the cities of Plaine Commune, Lyon and Villeurbanne in 2021.  Next the system will take root in Bordeaux and Montpellier. Let’s take a look at the past three years and see how this new system […]

Paris Property Group has built a top notch team to assist non-resident buyers achieve their dreams of owning real estate in Paris. Whether you’re interested in taking advantage of the 20-year record low currency exchange rates available today, obtaining a low interest fixed-rate mortgage (still well below 3%), or renting your property out for income […]

An SCI ‘Société Civile Immobilière’ is a type of French company that is used to hold and manage properties in France. It can be set up to purchase property in France – family homes, second homes, and rental investment properties – the owners then become ‘shareholders,’ while the property is ‘owned’ by the company.    […]