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The falling price of property in Angoulême
Above, Fontenoy Immobilier says the average price of house sales has fallen from 130,000 to €88,000. Photo: Phil MesseletPretty much anywhere you look in Europe at the moment the economic outlook...
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Bye bye Brits...we're all going home!
The Charente Libre interviewed Ann and Ian Davis, who came to live in Tuzie near Villefagnan in 2005, about their plans to return to the UK. Photo: Majid BouzzitWill the last one out leave the key...
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How the Charente became a 'victim' of the tax-break property boom
Photo: Majid BouzzitThe laws were supposed to save home buyers thousands of euros in income tax and provide plenty of new rental accommodation around the country.Instead they have, according to one...
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Swapping a house for life in a mobile home
Photo: Majid Bouzzit/CLThere are some who look down on mobile homes and the people who live in them. Not pensioners Marcel and Viviane Gardaire (see above).They sold their comfortable home at...
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The holiday and second home owners of Poitou-Charentes
Photo: Agnès Marroncle/CLSo, who owns second homes in the Poitou-Charentes, and what are their social profiles? No one is quite sure, it seems, which is why the University of La Rochelle is carrying...
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Making a go of it in the Charente
Photos: Phil Messelet/CLThere's been quite a bit in the news in recent months about Brits who have come to France and haven't been able to make it work. So it's nice to be able to report on Britons who...
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Center Parcs comes to the Poitou-Charentes
Photo: Benoît Caurette/CLIt is one of the big names in holiday accommodation in Europe.And now it's coming to the Poitou-Charentes. Center Parcs, which is owned by the holiday group Pierre &...
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We're back – the British are buying property in the Charente again
Photo of Leggett Immobilier head office at La Rochebeaucourt: Phil Messelet/CLYes, the British are back.Of course, many never went away.But according to a recent report in the Charente Libre it seems...
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New luxury hotel for Cognac?
Photo: archives CLIn the next few years the town of Cognac could be home to a new upmarket hotel plus some luxury stores.The entrepreneur from Azerbaijan, Javad Marandi, has just signed an initial...
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The Île-de-Ré house for sale for a mere €7.3 million
Photo: Agnès Marroncle/CLThe price of property is relatively low in most of the Charente and Charente-Maritime.But all bets are off when it comes to the exclusive holiday resort island of Île-de-Ré.Ten...
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