French Administration Guides & Resources

Dealing with water leaks, in any form, is always a stressful experience. 

The Aster Coworking space offers hot desks, focus rooms and a meeting room – the perfect solution for digital professionals.

Regardless of how simple or complicated your home improvements are… they’ll all require some form of paperwork to be completed either before or after the work. Please note that the information we’re covering in this blog does not refer to changing the internal aesthetic of your property - just the sizing and structure. Prior to starting the home improvement work Right - you’re at the stage where you’re embarking on some home improvements. Before you start anything, it’s impor

This blog is entirely focused on those working in the construction industry in France. If this is your area of expertise and you’re seeking out work, there are a huge number of opportunities available for tradesmen across the country in both rural France, the main cities, and in popular holiday destinations and resorts like Three Valleys where each summer the construction industry goes bonkers! There are three options for individual tradesmen looking for work in France. Simpl

A building Syndic isn’t some scary beast that lives in your basement - although it does sound like something straight out of Monsters Inc. Bare with us, whilst we explain… If you own an apartment, you’ll almost certainly have spaces that you share with your neighbours - likely corridors, car parks, caves, ski lockers and more. In France, these shared spaces are not owned by any one person in the building. They’re owned by a copropriété. This is a term for a collective of peop

The ongoing social, political and economic global changes have left us all fighting to take back control of what we can and make cost savings in any way we can. We’re facing huge economic upheaval and one of many hot topics of debate concerns the rise in energy prices. On November 19th 2022 various schemes for companies, communities and associates were presented in a bid to simplify and help with the rising prices. We want to present these to you, in an easy-to-digest way to

If you’ve just arrived here - hi, welcome! Before you get stuck in, we recommend taking a few minutes to read our most recently posted blog all about ‘obligations for holiday lets and property rentals’ . This may answer some of the more generic questions you may have related to property rentals and will give you a good insight into the topic before we get going with the nitty gritty that is fiscal tax. In this resource blog we’ll be discussing fiscal options for property rent

We’re going to be kicking off our property month with a blog detailing the important information and obligations related to holiday lets and property rentals. In this resource document we’ll be covering the nitty gritty of rental, from what information is required on your contracts, to deposits, insurance requirements, taxes and tourist rental.

I think most people would agree there’s not much more stressful than buying and renovating properties… apart from doing it in a language that you don’t speak. Even if your French is fantastic, there’s something undeniably stressful about the mountain of written paperwork that comes alongside renovating and completing home improvements - particularly for those unfamiliar with the French renovation jargon. Locally to us in the French Alps, property renovation is incredibly comm