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Your Notaire Got It Wrong: Suing After a Flawed French Property Purchase

Foreign buyer's guide to suing a French notaire: duty to warn, verifications, loss of chance, five-year time limit and recoverable costs under recent Cour de cassation rulings.

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Signed a Compromis in France? The 10-Day Withdrawal, the Loan Clock and Getting Your Deposit Back

Foreign buyer's guide to the French 10-day withdrawal right, the mortgage reflection period and deposit refund, with 2022 and 2024 Cour de cassation rulings.

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Your Neighbour Built Onto Your French Land: Encroachment, Demolition and Damages After the Amiens 4cm Case

A 4cm encroachment in Amiens froze a house build for 20 months and cost 13,246.80 euros. How French demolition law works after the July 2025 Cour de cassation ruling, and what foreign owners …

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France’s Energy Rental Bans and the 2026 DPE Reset: A Foreign Owner’s Guide to Letting Legally

G-rated homes are banned from rental since 2025, F follows in 2028. A foreign owner's guide to the calendar, tenant remedies, the June 2026 eviction ruling, diagnostics case law and the pend …

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My English Will and My French House After Brexit: Forced Heirship, Electing English Law, and How the Notaire Applies It

British owner with a French house and an English will? How habitual residence, the election of English law, French forced heirship and the compensatory levy decide your succession, and how t …

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Viager Annuity Unpaid in France: How Sellers Force Payment or Unwind the Sale

When the buyer of a French viager property stops paying the life annuity, the seller can force payment or terminate the sale — but only if the deed was drafted correctly. Recent French rulin …

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British Heir After a Death in France: Frozen Bank Account, Notaire Papers, Tax Clearance and How to Force Release

A relative died owning a French bank account and the bank froze the money. How British heirs prove heirship, which law and death tax apply, and how to force release or challenge a refusal.

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British in France After Brexit: English Will, French House and Forced Heirship — Which Law Applies, How to Elect English Law and How to Challenge the Notaire

A British will leaving a French house to a spouse can collide with forced heirship. After Brexit, which law applies, how to elect English law, and how to challenge the notaire.

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Paris Rent Control in 2026: Reference Rents, Rent Supplements and How Foreign Owners and Tenants Can Challenge the Rent

Paris caps every residential rent at 20 percent above the median reference rent. This guide explains the 2026 figures, the rent supplement, renewal procedures, and how to challenge an excess …

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Evicting a Non-Paying Tenant in France: A Foreign Landlord’s Guide to Unpaid Rent, the Winter Truce and Recovering Possession

Rent stopped on your French flat? This guide for foreign landlords explains the commandement de payer, the two-month clock, court delays, the November-to-March winter truce, and the notice r …

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Buying Off-Plan in France (VEFA): The Foreign Buyer’s Legal Guide to Reservations, Delays and Defects

VEFA off-plan purchases in France: reservation contracts, capped stage payments, late-delivery remedies, and the one-year and ten-year defect guarantees foreign buyers must know.

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Short-Term Furnished Rentals in France: Registration, Change of Use and Fines — A Foreign Owner’s Guide (2026)

Since 20 May 2026 every French tourist furnishing needs a national registration number, second homes need change-of-use authorisation, and courts fine up to 100,000 euros per unit. A 2026 gu …

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Maître Reda Kohen

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