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How to transform your living space in 7 days with interior design ?
Every time we get the studio ready between two tenants, we're reminded how little time it actually...
Current real estate market trends
What's actually happening in real estate right now Every few months we sit down with a coffee and...
Understanding the real estate market in Monaco: a comprehensive guide
Driving along the Basse Corniche from Nice, Monaco always feels like a different planet the moment...
Different ways to enhance the value of your property
A neighbour of ours spent three years trying to sell a lovely apartment overlooking the Baie des...
Different insurance options for landlords
A friend of ours who rents out a small place near the port called us in a panic last winter after...
Regulations to consider when investing in real estate
How much regulation is really involved in buying a rental property? That's the question we get...
Tips to make your real estate investment profitable
Our very first rental, the little studio that started this whole blog, taught us more about...
Obligations and rights of landlords towards tenants
What the law actually asks of a landlord in France Renting out a property well isn't just about...
How to finance your real estate investment
Financing our very first rental felt more complicated than it needed to be, mostly because nobody...
Tips to negotiate the price of a property
We were chatting with a couple at the market in Antibes last month, the kind of conversation that...
Historic vs Modern Properties in Monaco: What’s the Best Investment?
Every time we drive down to Monaco for an afternoon, Michel does the same thing: he counts the...
The colours to choose for your home staging
We repainted our little studio three times before we rented it out for the first time, and looking...
Different real estate investment strategies
Fifteen years ago, when we first talked about turning our little studio into a rental instead of...
Pros and cons of investing in real estate
Before we ever signed anything, we spent a good six months arguing with ourselves, quietly, over...
Different ways to invest in real estate
A neighbour of ours spent an entire dinner last spring trying to convince us to help him flip a...
Common mistakes to avoid when home staging
The first time we sold a property, we made almost every mistake in this article, and we only found...
Luxury real estate Antibes
Antibes is the town we send people to when they tell us they want the Riviera without quite so...
Luxury real estate Nice
Michel likes to say that Nice is the only place he has ever lived where the view changes his mood...
Villa for sale in Cap d’Antibes
We once got genuinely lost trying to find a footpath on Cap d'Antibes that a neighbour swore...
What are the criteria that a luxury real estate agency must have?
A friend of ours asked us last spring which agency she should call before putting her villa above...
5 ways to discover Nice
The first time we drove down into Nice fifteen years ago, with our own little studio to rent out...
House: 9 musts if you live in the South
Every summer we watch the same thing happen to friends who buy a house down here after years up...
Property in Athens
Athens attracts holidaymakers, but above all, it is a city where people want to settle...
6 reasons to live on the French Riviera
Sitting on our terrace one evening, we started counting the different accents we'd heard that same...
Penthouse apartments: why we love them
We viewed a top-floor flat in Beaulieu-sur-Mer years ago that we didn't end up buying, and we...
Property in Valbonne: what should you choose?
A reader wrote to us last year asking whether Valbonne was "just Sophia-Antipolis with a pretty...
Buying an apartment in Nice: 4 signs that you have found the pearl
We used to assume that a sea view settled everything when buying an apartment in Nice. Then we...
If you have money, invest in real estate!
Neither of us grew up with any real inheritance or family fortune to fall back on. Our first real...
Focus on the Pinel law
Going back through our own older posts recently, we realised one of them was quietly wrong: the...