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  BUYING A HOUSE IN FRANCE - Where to buy in Dordogne If you asked most international buyers to picture their ideal corner of rural France, there is a fair chance they would end up imagining something remarkably close to the Dordogne. Old stone houses, medieval villages, rivers winding beneath châteaux, bustling market towns, long lunches on restaurant terraces and enough countryside to disappear into without necessarily feeling cut off from civilisation. It is hardly surprising that Dordogne has been attracting British, Dutch, Belgian and German buyers for decades, with increasing interest from Americans as well. But Dordogne is a large department, and deciding that you want to buy a house in Dordogne is only the beginning. Where in Dordogne should you actually buy? That was the question I looked at in my video, “ BUYING A HOUSE IN FRANCE - Where to buy in Dordogne ” , filmed while walking around Terrasson-la-Villedieu. Dordogne or Périgord? First, a little geography. Dordogne is ...
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  Crowd funding renovations - What happens when you need to sell? There is something undeniably compelling about watching somebody renovate a ruined French château on YouTube. You know the sort of thing. It is a cold winter evening, you are sitting comfortably at home, and on the screen a courageous couple are battling leaking roofs, rotten windows, collapsing floors and a renovation budget that appears to have developed a life of its own. At the beginning, it is difficult not to admire them. They have looked at a building that most people would quietly walk away from and decided, somehow, that they can save it. And increasingly, they are not doing it alone. I looked at this question in my video “ Crowd funding renovations - What happens when you need to sell? ” because while crowdfunding a château renovation can seem wonderfully straightforward when the money is being raised, the situation can look rather different several years later if that property has to be sold. But for thos...
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