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Leading and dynamic estate agency in South West France is recruiting for independent negotiators across the region. This is a self-employed position where you will be responsible for your own social charges, taxes and running costs - in return we are in a very strong position, unlike many agencies, to provide you with the most important commodity for a negotiator - clients! You will receive full training from the start - we will not just send you out into the wilderness saying "Come back when you have sold a property..." We will support you every step of the way, including applying for your carte professionelle - ultimately if you are successful, we are successful. We are looking for dynamic motivated individuals to mandate new properties and eventually to visit properties with international clients. We are not a small, parochial agency content to sell a dozen properties a year - we are very ambitious and expect good results from those individuals we work with. If you have sales experience or at the very least are a good "people" person with great communication and interpersonal skills, and speak a reasonable level of French, please send your current CV to: [email protected] Alternatively please call Alistair on (0033) 6 50 39 77 79 for an informal chat about the opportunity.

Does one have to fill in form 2047 ("Declaration deas Revenus encaissés à l'étranger") if you have received an income in the UK, a straightforward salary, and already paid income tax on it at source? Do the French authorities need to know this, and is it any advantage to me to tell them if I only earned €2k in France that year (Nov and Dec), but joint income in same year in UK (Jan to Jul) was €22k gross?? Thanks

What is the difference between a 3P apartment and a 3PC? Thanks

Hello What happens if you are French resident, tore up your NHS card, and then go back to the UK for a visit and fall ill?  Is there are E111 equivalent for going from France to the UK? I assume E111 is a european-wide form so the question is where do I get one from? Thanks, Emma

Is it possible to rescind an act changing one's marriage regime to "communauté universelle" - if one wanted to go back to owning a property 50:50? Thanks  

Hello I am trying to establish the minimum requirements for a carte professionelle as an agent immobilier.  I have a UK law degree, LLB Hons.  According to the FNAIM website it seems to indicate that if I have a law degree or equivalent, I can obtain a mauve carte professionelle without needing to show any experience in the industry.  As it happens, I have now been working for 12 months as a salaried negotiator for an estate agency.  My employers think that I need a minimum of either 18 months or 2 years' experience to get a card but the law degree factor might make experience a moot point. Can anyone shed any light? Thanks

No, not a SIPP related question...    Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of how an occupational pension scheme would invest in property, be it residential or commercial, regardless of country? (Obviously France-related knowledge gratefully received!) Thanks in advance Alistair

Amazing...a question about property and pensions, but NOT SIPP related! Does anyone have any experience of an occupational pension scheme in the UK investing in property, be it residential or commercial, regardless of country? Thanks in advance Alistair  

We are in the process of closing the HSBC £ account we have had for years because we are fed up with certain things...but this leaves us without a sterling account. What are the chances of us opening up another sterling account with a UK bank given we do not live there, have no proof of residence, no UK pay slips etc...I think minimal. Or can I open up a sterling account with a French bank (we bank with Caisse d'Epargne here) just so that we can have a chequebook and card for the occasional sterling purchase we will need to make at Xmas etc? Thanks

Established agence immobilière with 6 offices is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and bi-lingual individual to work in their office on the Charente/Dordogne border.  The role will initially entail answering emails, uploading properties onto the website, arranging appointments and assisting in the valuation of properties.  It is envisaged within a very short space of time that you will become a negotiator with your own clients, appointments and mandates.  You therefore need to be not just an administrator but also someone with good commercial and business sense and ideally some experience of working in a sales environment. You will need to be extremely IT literate as you will be responsible for maintaining the office's online portfolio of properties and assisting less IT-literate colleagues!  Crucially, you will need to be FLUENT in both French and English and will be asked to demonstrate this at interview.  A love of all things property-related wouldn't go amiss either... Full time hours, SMIC + commission. For details of how to apply please send a PM through this website.

The problem is, being British nationals, we are not entitled to a livret de famille... So would therefore need some form of permanent proof of birth etc.  Hence getting the British birth certificate.  Not only that, but we have to register the baby with the UK as well as France otherwise we would not be able to bring the baby into the UK - one can't get a British passport without a British birth certificate...  And we have to go to the UK 3 months after the birth for work purposes...  So in answer to your question, no, you can't register the birth when visiting the UK in order to save money as the baby wouldn't be allowed in in the first place!  They've changed it these days so that babies/minors have their own passports and cannot travel under their parents'...

Thanks for that TracyK - it seems a real faff but we're going to have to do it so that she can come with us back to the UK in January!! But like you say, if she wants British nationality at some point in the future, then we'll have paved the way... We already have a name sorted so no worries about that...  We've been told we have to go to the Mairie to register the birth rather than them coming to us, but luckily I won't need to get out of bed as apaprently, because we're married, my husband is deemed capable of doing it on his own... One thing I don't understand - if the French birth certificate is only valid for 3 months, why do they issue it in the first place?!  What use can it possibly serve?  Does one need to keep on renewing it or do you just forget about it after the first one?! Emma-Jane

Hello We know that in France a baby needs to be registered within 3 days of the birth. We have been told by the hospital to bring a "livret de famille". Not being French, we don't have one. So instead have gathered together copies of everything we can think of that they might ask for namely: our birth certificates, copies of OUR parents birth certificates, copies of our passports, proof of address, marriage certificate My mother-in-law has now chipped in and said we need ORIGINAL birth certificates for our parents as well as us. Is this right? Many thanks, Emma-Jane  

We are both British born so that's not an issue.  I and my husband personally don't mind either way but the grandparents are making a big hoo-ha out of the whole thing, being terribly patriotic and all that, so I thought I'd find out the answer rather than continue to wind them up...  So many thanks for clearing things up for us!  I guess I just have to try and sort out a British passport for her from over here...  That'll be fun no doubt!!  will start investigating THAT this afternoon... Emma-Jane ps. thank you also for the document links - my French is not up to scratch but my husband is bi-lingual so will have a look through them tonight...

Hello My husband and I are British nationals permanently resident in France.  Our first baby is due in a month and we have to go back to the UK in January.  Do we need to get a British or French passport?  And what will her legal nationality be?! We've been getting conflicting answers to this for some time now (from neighbours, both English & French) but it would be great to have the discussion finally clarified! Many thanks in advance, Emma-Jane