derjac

Many thanks for the response Cooperlola, We will have to see how things develop, but as you can imagine we are very dissapointed in how things have tuned out through no fault of our own. To cap it all the cost of the house has risen by £20k since signing due the exchange rate but that was a risk we knew about !!

I wonder how many Brits have been caught in the trap of planning  ( and been financialy committed) to move to France only to find that the new laws will stop them doing so.  In our case we signed in September with a large building company to construct our new house in Bittany only to find we now cannot live in it as we are both taking early retirement and I have a heart condition so insurance is out of the question. We had planned to part fund our new french home by the sale of our UK house (as we were going to move full time to France) but now will also need a UK home. The builders will not let us out of the contract unless we pay them 25% on the build cost,( the house has not yet been started) so now we are having to build the house that we cannot live in. We are now resigned to selling in once it is completed. I am  supprised that there has not been more postings with similar stories.