Buying guides for rural France
Practical reading before you offer on a house in rural France. Start with the wider buying questions, then follow the checks that matter to your property.
Finding and choosing a house
- Buying a renovation property in France
- Where to look, how to shortlist, what to investigate and how to build the whole budget. With buyer experiences from Survive France and official sources.
- What to check before offering on a French house
- The records and questions worth examining before you commit.
Understanding a particular issue
- Can you convert the barn?
- How the local plan affects the project you have in mind.
- The SPANC drainage report
- What to ask when a house has private drainage.
- Buying a house with an F energy rating
- Questions about heating, energy performance and the work ahead.
- Checking flood risk
- What the records can tell you about a particular address.
- Understanding radon risk
- What a risk category means and which questions remain.
See the checks applied to a real house
Read the anonymised sample report, with its evidence appendix, or send me a house to check.