Where FPN leads...

Others follow? Nice to see The Telegraph echoeing my message of yesterday. Here's a section from one of their reports today: 'This time last year Mr and Mrs Johnstone finally found a house they liked. It cost €180,000 (£164,000) – right on budget. What

Winners & losers

It’s a somewhat strange situation, but while some owners of French property are feeling the squeeze in today’s gloomy economic climate and are putting their homes up for sale, now is the perfect time for other people to buy a place in France - and not

France Show success

Well, I've been back from India less than a week and I've already immersed myself in France - at the France Show at Earl's Court in London. Okay, so it wasn't technically France, but with gendarmes on the doors and a fabulous French market as soon as

Christmas cheer

Well, Christmas is well and truly on the way now. Despite the credit crunch, the shops are unbearably busy and the Post Office is threatening a strike, so yep, it must be Christmas... And now for my confession - I'm escaping Christmas this year. No stressing

Don’t give up on your dreams

Did you see last night’s ‘A Place in the Sun: Home or Away’ on Channel 4? A retired couple had half a million to find a place in Berkshire or on the Cote d’Azur. The wife wanted France, the husband England. It wasn’t cut and dried though, and by the end

France.e.motion

  I went along to the ‘France.e.motion’ photography exhibition at Canary Wharf the other evening – a joint project between the French tourist board Maison de la France and photography students from the London College of Communication-University

What goes up…

At FPN we don’t often concern ourselves with buildings that are being knocked down - we’re more interested in new developments and houses that have stood for many years and are destined to go on doing so. However, a news snippet has come to my attention

France still favourite

A couple of interesting surveys have just been released. One from Conti Financial Services reveals that France remains one of the top destinations for people looking for property abroad. France sits just behind Spain in the top spot, showing that ‘tried

Bienvenue!

Bienvenue to my first ever blog! The French Property News team will be using this blog to discuss French property, current affairs and anything else to do with France, from the seriously serious to the seriously trivial.We're looking forward to your