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I have contacted the agent today and we have decided to use two Notaires. Our original notaire seems to be being difficult about handing the documents over as we were not using his services this time. He would not give them to the Immobilier at all and insisted that they be collected in person by either myself or my husband. No logical reason for this at all. He will now liaise with the Buyers Notaire and hand the documents over. It all seems bizarre as we would have been happy to just use one notaire. We just don't want to incur costs of £200+ to travel over for two days in order to collect these documents in person because our original notaire won't release them. Fingers crossed that things get easier from now on. Thanks for all your posts. Julie  

Thanks Cathy. I think that's what we will do too. Julie

We are not using an estate agent in the Uk. We are using a French agent. However, our notaire (who dealt with our purchase) won't release our deeds to the Estate Agent - only to us when we are next in france. We were not planning to use him this time. We are happy to use the buyers notaire only but wondered if it would be easier to involve our own notaire to avoid a two day trip to France to collect the deeds in person. He won't play ball otherwise and we need the deeds in order to proceed. 

Hi, I wonder whether anyone can help with a Notaire issue. We are reluctantly selling our house in the Languedoc and have had a reasonable offer from a french buyer. Our estate agent requested a copy of the title deeds for the house which are with the Notaire that dealt with the purchase. He won't send them to the UK or fax/email them and will only let us pick them up in person. To this end my husband is planning to fly out for two days needs week in order to collect them and deliver them to the agents. However, a friend has told us today that rather than using the buyers notaire, we can instruct our own at no extra cost. If this is the same notaire that holds our deeds, he can then liaise directly with the buyers notaire and we do not need to incur additional costs that we can ill afford. Is this correct and can we do this and are there any disadvantages to us doing this.   Many thanks in advance. Julie