johnycarper Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 We have sold our place and will be complete next February we have done the first papers with the buyers at the notaires,my question is when we go to sign completion is it possible for my wife/ me not to be here. We obviously hope to have brought a place in the uk and it may be that one of us will need to be there in uk to finalize that purchase.Thanks for any advice, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 You can give your notaire proxy to sign in your absence. Neither of you need to be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 In fact, neither of you need be there[:D]Just make sure you have given someone power of attorney to sign on your behalf in very good time.If you cannot find anyone to do it, you could give the power to someone in the notaire's office (at least you used to be able to, so just check). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 The correct term in French is une procuration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnycarper Posted September 22, 2015 Author Share Posted September 22, 2015 Thanks for all the feedback and hopefully we will not need to do this but at least we know if any problems we can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 It's better if you can be there. We know of two people who were selling houses with business attached, where the Notaire only raised the amount of CGT liability at the actual signing.It came as a major shock as we we are talking about a converted farm with 2 self converted gites. They came away with £20,000 less than they had expected. It had initially been a £30,000.They had wrongly assumed that as they live on the site it would all be counted as their residence.In fact they had to pay CGT on half of the sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnycarper Posted September 24, 2015 Author Share Posted September 24, 2015 Thanks I will be there just in case my wife needs to be back in the uk we just wondered what would happen but I think we will both be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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