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iPhone & Android App for the South of France

The iRiviera App from Azure is the first of its kind, a true interactive, social web enabled guide to the South of France and all it has to offer!
From the various tradeshows from the Cannes Film Festival through MIPIM, Cannes Lions and MIPCOM, business delegates find it a great tool to keep up with the [...]

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 [...]

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 5th August 2008

Dear All,
Market update:
The next year is going to be tough while we ride out the downside of an economic cycle which follows six years of low interest rates and rising property and asset prices. Most predictions are for a return to stability in 2009 and a return to economic growth in 2010.
France is less exposed [...]

A visit to Cannes!

Postcard from the Riviera 1

Postcard from the Riviera.
Why invest in France?
•    France receives more visitors than any other country in the world! (Fact).
•    Millions visit France, and with new, improved and cheaper transport, demand for accommodation continues to grow.
•    Financial Mail – “If you really want to get out of rands and into property, go to Euroland. French property [...]

SURVEY: FRANCE : The art of the impossible

A morose France has fallen behind its competitors. But there is nothing inevitable about its decline, argues Sophie Pedder: all it needs is political will
Bridgeman
“SOMETHING seems very wrong with this country. Once the very model
of a modern major power—stable, rich and smug—it appears beset now by
political and economic instability and by civil unrest and disorder.
One [...]

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