Hi to everyone! My wife and I have been to Provence recently and fell in love with this lovely stone house, just beside a lavender field: yes, just like the ones you see in postcards! :D since then we decided that we would start considering buying one of our own. Thing is we're not very familiar with the property market in France and our knowledge of French is pretty scarce to say the least :/ We'd really like a house similar to the one we saw (or even that one, although I doubt it's for sale..i mean, why would it be! :D) and I tried googling stuff like "stone cottage france lavender" but nothing pertinent seems to appear, unsurprisingly. We also checked online for some agencies but what we're worried about is not so much the buying of the house but all that's related to that, e.g. renovation, legal affairs, bureaucracy..and for what I heard France is quite bureaucratic when it comes to property buying! Does anyone here know about agencies that go a few steps further than simply selling you a house? Has someone here recently bought a house and can give me some advice on that? Cos for example if we were to find something similar to the stone house we saw the amount of renovating would be enormous considering water and energy supply, sewage links, etc. and I really don't know how we could figure out all that on our own, especially in a foreign country! Maybe we're just being a bit unrealistic here, but if anyone could give us a hand in this we'd be very thankful :) I'm new to this forum, so i hope it's okay for me to post this kind of topic, if not feel free to let me know :) Steven
