Carolski Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 We've just asked a local retired farmer if we could buy the field next door to us to enable us to install our new fosse septic. It is about 1650 square meters. He wants 800€'s for it which I'm sure is pretty fair. We're now off to the Notaires to 'legalise' it and just thought we'd post this in case anyone out there had other thoughts ideas re the price, advice as to any drawbacks with fields etc, GratefullyS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 You will need to budget for around 800 euros in notaires fees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 It sounds pretty good to me! What does the local Mairie think about installing a fosse in the field though? Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 On a similar vein, I am buying a short stretch of chemin rural which has fallen into disuse but which runs right alongside my small field. The price is only a few cents per square metre so the base cost of the land is minimal. Should the notaires fees be a percentage of this or are there fixed or minimum charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 are there fixed or minimum charges?Both!If the land cost only 1 Euro the fees would be 700 Euros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 In which case there will be a row! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJSLIV Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 The notaire gets a relatively small part of the "fee" most of it relates to searches, government registration charges and taxes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 I accept that the notaire gets a bit, but as this is land from the commune (ie State) I intend to say that the rest is unnecessary, especially as it has been through a government commission and as the land was offered to me. And will check with other (French) buyers in the commune (there are lots of bits of land like this) that equity has been applied. Just a bit of bloody mindedness, letting off steam if you like against the Monthy Pythonesque world we live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pp Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Why does it cost 700 Euros? I paid 100 Euros for a transfer of some land, is this based on surface area or what?Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Certainly I am not going to accept an arbitrary figure Chris. The land has no real value and is probably less than 100 sq m. We shall see, we shall see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolski Posted February 6, 2006 Author Share Posted February 6, 2006 Sorry, did I miss something? Has someone 'hijacked' my question? Totally confused now!!!! C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 chris pp I don't know exactly what your notaire did for you but the land registry and taxes always come to far more than 100 euros. Nothing to do with the notaire getting a cent. These are taxes of various sorts and go to the french authorities and there are minimum sums as far as we could tell. So maybe you should make sure that you really have got this land you think you have got.We bought some land and ended up as BJSLIV said with a hefty bill even though the land cost us next to nothing. Our notaire got around 100 euros himself for doing this land transfer. To the poster, surface area may well come into play as well as the minimum charge............... I am just wondering why you just didn't ask your notaire and perhaps another one how much this would cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le bouffon Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 An easy thing to do would be to talk to the notaire(they have a tariff for house/land deals)and ask he/she the questions you need answering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris pp Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Defiantly got the land all fully documented, the only thing I can assume is that someone else paid the difference - if there was one. It was a strange situation, because although we had a fair bit of land in the original purchases, bought in two lots, three years apart but agreed at the time of the first purchase - it turned out five years later that the "chemin" that we had been using to reach the cottages, marked on the plan by the Notaire was not a right of access after all and the only way that we could reach the road was by buying some other land on the other side of the property. This went to an enquiry with the sous prefecture. After this the Maire was so embarrassed that we had been mislead that he arranged for us to buy the other piece of land and the commune built a drive for us, which is now ours.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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