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Cannes Property Letter 85

Apartment “Cannes Californie” – See details below.

Dear All,
This is likely to be my last Property Letter in 2009, so I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas, and health, happiness and prosperity in
2010.
TO INVEST OR NOT TO INVEST
There are “extra issues” surrounding people’s already difficult decisions as to whether and when [...]

CANNES PL 84: PROPERTY LETTER 20th October 2009.

“Snapshots from the Med” – spot the odd one out!

It’s my boat – want to argue?

It’s our scooter, couldn’t be cuter.

It’s my Porsche – and I’ll poop if I want to.

It’s my breakfast – Garth pass the toast.

“C’est chez nous” – our place in the sun.

PL 84: PROPERTY LETTER 20th October 2009.
Dear [...]

Cannes Property Letter 83

The final property in the letter today is in this historic building. Scroll to the end to read about it.
PL 83: PROPERTY LETTER 14th August 2009.
Dear All,
KEEPING MY PROMISES.
In my last Property Letter (which was my first attempt at separation and entitled “Just Villas”) I told you that we had quite a number of very [...]

Cannes Property Letter 16th June 2009

PROPERTY LETTER 16th June 2009.

Photo by Mandy Jarvis
WHAT IS THE PROPERTY MARKET DOING ON THE COTE D’AZUR?
Everyone wants to know the answer to that question, and I can relate what I see in the marketplace, and what I’ve heard or read.
Internationally it is becoming accepted that we are through the worst. Britain has officially returned [...]

Cannes Property Letter – 19th Nov 2008

PL79 – Renovations, Improvements and Adding Value.
Dear All,
FROM SOW’S EAR – TO SILK PURSE.

Many people ask the same question – « Can’t you find us somewhere that needs renovation? »
The motivations are many but underlying it is always the thought that there might be an unrecognised bargain out there. Perhaps we can find the « renovators dream » [...]

PROPERTY LETTER 6th November 2008

Dear All,
“Call the Bottom Dad!” …is what Lao said to me recently.
We were talking about the market and the release of the “Residential Market Review for the third quarter 2008, published in October by CB Richard Ellis, a worldwide property consultancy firm who publish research results and market reports which are respected by professionals in [...]

PROPERTY LETTER 22nd October 2008

Dear All,
Trompe-l’œil
(French – “trick the eye”) is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three-dimensions, instead of actually being a two-dimensional painting.” (Wikipedia)
It is a very popular art form in this part of France, and this side of an otherwise uninteresting three [...]

A Postcard from the Riviera.

FRENCH PROPERTY & THE GLOBAL CRISIS.
(While Riviera Sales Slow Values Hold Firm.)
« Ce qui a changé, ce qu’il faut faire. » (What has changed, what one must do.)
In general, after nearly a decade of increases the French property market has levelled somewhat and banks are tightening access to credit, albeit much less virulently than in [...]

PROPERTY LETTER 18th September 2008

Dear All,
Vicky and I arrived back last week from a wet and windy Cape Town to Cannes with the “Festival International de la Plaisance” – The 31st Cannes International Boat and Yacht Show – in full swing. Billed as Europe’s foremost in-water showcase there are 650 of the worlds finest yachts and multihulls on exhibition, [...]

Postcards from the Riviera. No 4.

Owning “A Little Piece of the French Riviera”:
This is the fourth in this series of Postcards from the Riviera and judging by the interest that the articles have generated so far (all are available on http://www.realestateweb.co.za or at http://www.azur-accom.com/), there is a great deal of interest within the South African investment community in the two [...]

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