President Hollande’s proposed income and wealth tax changes have caused at least some wealthy French residents to start looking for greener pastures with less burdensome taxes.

History may be repeating itself in the Paris real estate market today.  At the peak of the market turmoil in 2008-2009, following the global credit crunch, sellers and buyers took a wait-and-see attitude, hoping that prices would see a marked decline. That didn’t happen,