NEWS T
LARGEST PRIVATE CHATEAU IN PROVENCE FOR
he largest private château in Provence has come onto the market for €18m (with
home-hunts.com) after 15 years of painstaking restoration. Dating from the 10th century, the property has 25 bedroom suites, three kitchens, libraries, lounges, guardian’s lodge... the list is exhaustive. In the 18th century, Château de La Verdière was one of the most sumptuous residences in Provence; the owner apparently died of grief when he learned that locals had looted the château.
SALE!
Château de La Verdière is,around 45 minutes from Aix-en-Provence and an hour from Marseille.
LANDLOCK: PROTECTING FARMLAND A
community in the Basque country has taken an unprecedented
step to protect farmland against soaring property prices, regional news outlet Aqui reported. Locals are concerned that
land that has traditionally been used to grow food, is becoming attractive for leisure use and therefore changing hands fetching higher fi gures. Town offi cials in Arbonne formed a ‘land committee’
prompted by what they believe is a weakness in the tools at the disposal of land agency SAFER, which has the legal right of fi rst refusal on any farmland placed on the market for sale but in practice has limited fi nancial means to acquire it. The local land committee
will collaborate with SAFER on the systematic pre-emption on behalf of the community of any transaction where the sale price of agricultural land exceeds a set reference value.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Having been on the market for fi ve years without attracting a buyer, the Paris home of legendary French singer Johnny Hallyday has been reduced from €26m to €10m. The eight-bedroom villa, where Hallyday had many happy times and brought up his youngest daughters, and ultimately died in (in 2017), is located in Marnes-la-Coquette and has a cinema room, gym, swimming pool, tennis courts, beautiful parkland and a caretaker’s house.
In 2022 France earned €148m in tourist taxes from Airbnb, according to Le Parisien newspaper, representing a 60% increase from 2021.
As of 1 February, France has ended compulsory isolation for people who test positive for the Covid virus, while those who’ve been in touch with someone with the virus will no longer have to carry out a test.
Paris is the most visited city in France – the most visited country in the world
New research from GlobalData suggests that within two years France will once again be the most visited country in the world, having been overtaken by Spain during the Covid pandemic. The analytics company estimates
14 FRENCH PROPERTY NEWS: March/April 2023
that international arrivals in France will grow at 12.1% a year, attracting 93.7 million by 2025. In 2021, President Macron introduced the Destination France Plan to ensure his country retained its position as a global tourism leader.
Anyone who owns a property in France, whether a main or second home, will have to fi ll in an extra declaration this year on the
impots.gouv.fr website in the ‘Mes biens immobiliers’ section. The Déclaration d’occupation will enable the authorities to identify main and holiday homes. This is due to changes to property taxes, with taxe d’habitation being scrapped for most people but not for second-home owners.
TELECOMS: GOT YOUR NUMBER As of January, you will no longer lose your fi xed telephone number when you move homes to a location where landlines start with a diff erent prefi x, and the same goes for business relocations. Following a decision by French telecoms regulator ARCEP, it is now possible to keep your digits if you move to a diff erent area within metropolitan France, even if the new location falls under a diff erent prefi x code.
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