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If you rely on Bertrand Russell I doubt that anything has any veracity. He it was that visited Russia under Stalin and declared "I have seen the future and it works" [quote user="NormanH"]One of my barrels is not far from Quillan's, but at the moment I am in the warm one, and this afternoon it was 30 by the forecast and 35ish in full sun.[/quote]

I've looked at land and build costs and have pitched my price at a negotiable level above the current costs. It comes out at €259000. I thought that this was an acceptable figure especially as the house next door has just sold for €400000. Yesterday we asked the agent who had sold that house to pay us a visit, imagine our chagrin when, after being told not to say what the other agents were asking, were presented with " I don't think I could sell it, in todays market, although it is a €325000 property, for more than €275000. Bring them on!! [quote user="Val_2"]Plus lots more people around here are trying to flog land they have had in the family for generations for people to build on, most of the ones I have seen on LBC will be refused because of the change in rules as they are well outside village centres.I believe I heard on the national news the other week that land people own which is constructable and just sitting there are going to be taxed heavily per m² unless it is used, I maybe wrong but it did show a village in the mountains whereby lots of folks have plots of land their families have owned for generations and which is deemed constructable but because no one wants or can afford to build, it is just dormant as the owners are not farmers.One lady said her land would cost more each year in a new land tax than her pension twice over!![/quote]

I did not say I spend a £1000, I said the best part of a €1000. RightMove for 6 months with a Premium listing was 325 pounds or 420 euros PaP is most certainly not free and has to be renewed every 2 months and Le Bon Coin whilst ads are free any departure from the norm is charged for as are alterations when adjusting price and the necessity to move the ad "up the column" is also costly. [quote user="Pommier"]How did you spend £1,000 on private adverts? I know Rightmove charge, but even for a house worth over a million, it's less than £500 for 12 months, PaP and Leboncoin are free.[/quote]

[quote user="danny"]Thinking of selling the house and moving further south. Had several immos around most of the prices were about the same except for one immo whose name starts with a part of the lower half of a persons body. They really knocked the price down. We got the idea that they wanted to get their commission (6%) quickly at our expense. [/quote] Interesting you should say that. After 17 years in the Languedoc we are now preparing to sell and return to the UK, we are in no desperate hurry and have placed the house with (this after a totally fruitless attempt to sell via RightMove, PaP and Le Bon Coin, which in all has cost the best part of €1000) local agents, one of which, French orientated, has done a lot of tooth sucking and promised us results if we abated the price, needless to say without a sniff of a buyer. The other more outward looking has produced one viewer who, after giving precise details of requirements to the agent which our house matched exactly (modern, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, views, garden etc) turned it down as too small! So thinking to broaden the coverage I emailed said lower extremities and received no reply, I looked up the local office and phoned leaving messages for call back which never came. So I phoned to a very unfriendly reception at head office and was promised action which was noticeable by its' absence. Eventually I phoned the eponymous lower extremity herself and was assured that they were terribly busy selling property and would have the local rep call me, the local rep did call me and told me a sob story about having three people off and leaving me with the final promise "I will get back to you before the end of the day without fail". It did, of course, fail. I rather think they are without one to stand on