French property prices

Where are the property investment bargains in France? Having just spent two weeks wandering around Northern and middle-France to take a look at the markets and see what is going on on the ground as it were, I would say they have not yet surfaced, and the stunning amount of property for sale in France means we have a lot further to fall before seeing genuine bargains. I visited Brittany and the Dordogne to see just what was going on.

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Europe may have lagged behind the US during the recent credit crisis, but they have caught up now and the effects are starting to be felt in the property markets. For the first time in many years, estate agents are closing their doors and the windows of the remaining agents are littered with hastily dropped prices. Property price movements  in France usually lag behind the UK movements and this downturn is no exception.

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