Battler

After six years of buying, restoring and selling houses in France I can tell you that agents are the same the world over. The agents to avoid at all costs are what I call UK besed "Catchment Agents" who receive a fee from French agents for advertising their properties on their website. The properties either do not appear in the French agents' portfolio or do not even exist. It's a ploy to get you into the particular agents' office. Other UK based websites do a similar thing except they will made definite appointments to see a French property directly with the owner. They provide a location and sellers contact number. They have no rep. in France and you go in "cold." Owners are either French or English and the UKagents' fee is about 6%+ but for what? English owned houses are usually tastefully decorated and as you would expect - clean! The French live in a different way but that is not a criticism. My forthcoming publication tells all about life in France.