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12/06/2009, 17:11 alex Joined on 21/06/2007 Posts 16 English speaking notaire Hi Can anyone recommend a good (that works in favour of seller re paying tax!) english speaking notaire? We are in department 17  - 30 mins from La Rochelle, 30 mins for Surgeres (depart 79) and 30 mins from Fontenay La Comte (depart 85). Can anyone help?  Much appreciated.    Report

12/06/2009, 20:17 gosub Joined on 15/01/2008 North of 47 Posts 622 Re: English speaking notaire All notaires whether English speaking or not, should work within the law and ensure the government receive their entitlement they should not be biased in favour of either the buyer or seller. You can find one HERE Les    Report

13/06/2009, 7:51 Tony F Dordogne Joined on 10/04/2005 Small village in the Dordogne, near St Cyprien Posts 2,121 Re: English speaking notaire Alex, as gosyb says, that's not the way that Notaires work, they are tax collectors and are not biased either way. Tony F Dordogne (24)    Report

14/06/2009, 9:55 Martin Spamfree Joined on 12/06/2009 Posts 2 Re: English speaking notaire Don't forget that, if you are buying a house, you can ask to have your own notaire - the fee is then shared between your notaire and the seller's notaire. Although, in principle, notaires are unbiassed, if the seller's notaire has closely advised the seller and his family for decades, common sense says that it will be difficult for them if some finely balanced point arises between seller and buyer.    Report

14/06/2009, 13:25 Diablotine Joined on 14/06/2009 Posts 3 Re: English speaking notaire I don't know if it can help or not, but we just sold our house to people from UK. As stated by the law, the buyer chose the notaire (in our case, he didn't speak english, so he was working with a profesional translator). The seller may have an advice from his own notaire, but he has to accept the buyer's notaire - anyway, the law being clear in the most of cases, it's hard to change anything .    Report

14/06/2009, 13:55 Patf Joined on 23/08/2004 SW Gers Posts 3,034 Re: English speaking notaire  Diablotine wrote: anyway, the law being clear in the most of cases, it's hard to change anything . That's a good point. What is most difficult for UK clients to realise is that french notaires don't do the various checking out jobs that a british conveyancer/solicitor would do. So it's up to you to do various searches and make enquiries yourself. And to ask for inclusion of clauses supensives, clause tontine etc if applicable. Much more a case of caveat emptor.    Report

15/06/2009, 8:05 Pat76 Joined on 14/10/2007 Holmfirth/Charente 16 Posts 33 Re: English speaking notaire I don't know if it would be too far away from you, but we used  Maitre Alexandre Desautel in Aubeterre Sur Dronne, Dept 16. He speaks excellent English. Pat    Report

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