[I've found a buyer for my French property - what's the next step in selling it privately?]

thanks, this is an additional cost that I hadn't counted on .... roughly how much do you think these surveys will cost?  I appreciate that it's an estimate only but it gives me a 'ball park' figure.

 

[I've found a buyer for my French property - what's the next step in selling it privately?]

We've found a potential buyer for our French cottage and didn't use an estate agent, so it's just contact between us and the buyer.  He now wants to proceed?  What do we do next?  How do we get a compromis de vente prepared?

If we'd used an agent then obviously they'd look after all these things but I wonder if we have to go to a notaire for this.

Also, someone told me that all properties must be sold with the French equivalent of a Home Information Pack on them, stuff like an energy survey, termite survey, etc.  Do we need to get tehse done?  Our buyer doesn't seem concerned about them but are they a legal requirement? Certainly the new house that we're buying (through an estate agent) had all of these reports attached to the compromis de vente that we've signed and this agent deals with all the legal stuff.

But on the sale side, what do we do to progress this along by ourselves?

Any advice is appreciated.  As there's so many properties being sold privately then surely someone has gone down this road before us and can give us the benefit of their experience.

Many thanks everyone

[Boundary issues and fences between neighbours]

Thanks for the replies.  Will, can you clarify - so each structure has to be half a metre from the boundary line so there's a metre's clear width in between?  If so that would be the solution.  Which particular law/bye-law is this in case we need to quote this.

Just to make my question cleare - my friend wants to erect a wooden fence as he will be attaching solar air-heating panels to it as part of his overall heating system.  It's important to place these in that particular location, facing the sun.  If the neighbour erects a stone wall to tthe boundary line then can my friend attach his solar panels to their wall, or are they likely to demand that he cannot attach anything to their structure?  That's the reason why he wants the fence, rather than a wall.

So apologies for muddying the waters, but (a)  does each person have to place their structure half a metre from the boundary line and (b) if the neighbour builds his wall up to the boundary, can my friend attach his panels to their wall as it will be in his garden space?

yes, I've suggested they sit down and talk and agree but relations are very strained between them over several issues, hence the need to clarify rights over the boundary.

[Boundary issues and fences between neighbours]

A friend has been having problems with his French neighbours and they're not really on speaking terms now, and he's asked my advice (so of course I'm turning to Living France to see if anyone has an answer).

Each has a detached property but my friend owns the boundary line and proposes, in due course, to put up a wooden fence along that line.  At the moment it's just overgrown and the boundary has been delineated by a 'geometre' so there's no issue with the actual line.  However, the French neighbour wants to construct a stone wall on his side of the land, on his side of the boundary line, quite soon.  So there's to be a wooden fence and a stone wall right next to each other.

However, this will make it impossible for my friend to maintain and creosote the wooden fence - he'll be unable to paint it from the other side.  The French neighbour says that there only needs to be a gap of about six inches between the structures but that doesn't give my friend any room to be able to weatherproof the fence on the other side.  Is there a minimum space that has to be kept?

They really should sit down and work out their differences but, sadly, there's a lot of bad feeling.  Before my friend approaches the local mayor for advice, he wanted any advice or knowledge that might be available from this forum. 

Many thanks