The best places to buy a home in France in 2025
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2025
- If you are looking to buy a property in France in the near future, then you better watch this video first.
In this video Dan NEWTON tells you what the statistics think is the best place to buy or invest in France.
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Helpful to those with no experience of staying in France, or that don't have friends who can tell them what it's like. Obviously the info doesn't take into account the changes that have occurred in the last few years re weather in Finistere particularly. I have returning guests who live there, and spent the summer sitting on the beach under an umbrella, as it poured with rain constantly. Also been very cold and snowed more than is normal. So with access of railway links Beziers-Millau-Rodez, airports Rodez,Beziers,Montpelier, weather, organic verdure, house prices.... At the top on the list for people's places to visit, is Millau! Has been for a variety of reasons, including the viaduct, 1 euro trains & buses, sport facilities and achievements etc So much to do when on holiday and living in this region.
Best analysis I've seen- addresses everything that matters to people who plan moving to france.
Thank you
Thanks Dan and best wishes for 2025!
And my best wishes to you too.
This is incredible! I’m interested in the south, and this information is helpful, thank you!
Whew, thanks so much Dan. I'm coming from Cape Town and virtually just bought blind. But after a couple of years of online research, taking into consideration all the factors you mentioned now, I seem to have hit the jackpot... hopefully, with Dordogne as my choice. The rain in Normandy is just too much for me. Good weather, not too cold and sunnier days that I'm used to, but not too hot either. Plus looks very pretty. Just worried about doctors, as one person mentioned, but I'll cross that bridge when I move there. I've been following your informative videos for months and months now and you've actually been the best. Thanks once again and enjoy a successful 2025 🎉
And thank you for the compliment! Might see you soon when I am down in Dordogne. My place is not far from Terrasson Lavilldieu.
Ohh my house I've bought is so tiny, the smallest house I've ever lived in 😂 but our SA rand goes no where unfortunately and I only wanted small grounds and it's in a village on main drains so I'm happy 😊
Scuse me, but coming from Cape town, south of France will feel very chill compared to it.
Languedoc will be a better choice.
Mediterranean weather french side, is much cooler than cape town.
I really want to move to France. I have been many times and love the South so I can get to the mountains by train and into Italy down the Coast and all those little villages. I would like a rural 2 bedroom with some outside space so I can make a lovely little garden and have a few chickens and a little tea room in the summer. I do not drive which means I am reliant on trains and public transport.
I really like the way you narrowed this down! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Verry good analyses🎉🎉🎉
Thank you❤
Glad you like them!
This was very helpful, thanks so much.
You're very welcome!
Well done! thanks.
Hi Dan brilliant thank you, wish I had seen this before 2012, when I bought a house in France. I then used several guidelines, 1, I wanted an Atlantic as opposed to Continental weather system, 2 no further North than where red grapes would ripen (so below the Loire) and 3 absolutely no where a sky slope!! and 4 less than a days drive from Cherbourg harbour to avoid having to B&B overnight to and from the ferry. I fancied the Charente Maritime but Poteau Charente gave better value for money. However being slightly more inland heavier frosts. Many Thanks.
Good thinking. I love the Marais Poitevin.
Excellent analysis using important categories for measurement. Now, overlay the safest areas from nuclear accidents... :) Thanks, Dan.
That would leave Brittany and Northern Aquitaine then. www.irsn.fr/sites/default/files/2023-03/Carte%20g%C3%A9ographique%20des%20r%C3%A9acteurs%20EDF%20en%20exploitation%202022.png
Highly informative video, thanks very much
You're welcome
Great informative video, glad we picked the Mayenne.
Good choice!
Dan,
Very well done. Leaving out demographics, endettement of the departments, voting profile, unemployment stats etc is very politically correct, but those stats are as relevant as annual sunny days.😊
Peter
Demographics are very sectarian if you ask me, I prefer cultural mixing
Endettement - All the departments are endetted, it’s a national sport here.
Voting Profile - most of the time it plays out at 1-2 % difference between left and right, so not important to me.
Unemployment - pretty well all my clients are not looking for jobs.
This is based on questions that I receive from clients, very few ask about which religion is where, how many Africans or Chinese are in an area or is the department in dette.
So yes I do thing annual sunny days is more important to most people looking for a property.
Good info. thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid, many thanks.
Thank you too!
"Haute Vienne" means that the "Vienne" river is higher in the mountain;
"Haute Normandie" means it's closer to Paris (than "Basse Normandie");
"Haut Moyen-Age" means it is older than "Bas Moyen-Age" (Middle Age).
High and Low may have various meanings in french language, but never refer to the location on the map..
For the Vienne, there are not any real mountains around it, it comes from going “up” river to the source, and thus the High Vienne is further south.
For Normandy, I always thought that it was more a social aspect in that Basse Normandie was more agricultural and Haute Normandie was more industrial, thus “higher” in social levels. But that would also tally in with the proximity to Paris and industry.
Even when I know why things are as they are, it can still make me laugh though!
@@FrenchEstateAgent Part of the Charente where I had a house was referred to as Bas Cognac the Brandy made there was considered lower quality and used to make Pinot de Charente.
Nice work!
Thanks!
Very interesting. What is your estate agency Dan? Currently looking in Perigord Noir and surrounding areas . Going thete around 20th January.
Thank you. My agency is called Agence Newton. www.agencenewton.com/en
@FrenchEstateAgent just had a look. Nothing for us at the moment. Looking for a 2-3 chambre 2+ bathrooms, pool garage, plus gite, edge of village/small town up to €550,000.
Thank you.
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All the best to you as well.
Good thing is it gives people lots of the macro views of places. That being said, it if often more a "heart-string" and pocket book that pulls people, more than knowledge... C'est la vie, as they say...
I definetly agree, you buy a place with the heart, even to the extent that logic sometimes exits via the window!
So what do you think about the Montpellier area nearest Spain? Heat seemed to be the 1 major factor in not choosing it? I'm from Ca. our days can get up to 115 degrees in the summer. What I can't deal with is if it is constantly raining or if it snows basically if my citrus and olive trees can't stay out all winter I don't want to live there. 🤣 Is there aircon issues that can not be remedied with air conditioning? Is it the cost to run air con? I am so confused cause people here are trying to buy up the hot coastal areas and avoid the cold rainy coasts here. Thanks! :D
Montpellier is probably my prefered area on the mediterranean coast. Temperature wise, it sounds like on a parr with CA. Aircon is no problem here, and it is getting more and more popular, but before the French were more outside people so to speak.
Uzes is excellent for so many reasons!!
@@FrenchEstateAgent Ah, yes, it sounds perfect. You mentioned flooding, I watched the videos on it, you were not kidding. True it was a record flood but I suppose you have to be careful to have your house on an embankment so your home doesn't flood or slide down a hill. Worth researching for insurance etc. :D. We have the same problems here with flooding however having large gutters with drains have helped tremendously so now it is rare we have flooding anymore. People that live along the river always have their homes flooded however especially if a levee breaks then it is a fiasco. Insurance always covers flooding here however as well as earthquakes and fire. I like the classic chateaus but my fave are the Roman looking style Chateaus they look like classic Spanish style castles/ Haciendas with the flatter roofs. I don't see too many of them but I always have my eye out for them. :D
@@thetavernmillau I have looked at Uzes it is super cute I like it a lot. I think it is also closer to an airport which I would want to be within 30 minutes drive.
If you were to put black dots on the most desireable of SW of each map, and NW, which dots would you pick of all the maps combined? Also, while looking at a map of France, is the right half called the West side?, whereas the right side of the US is called East?
Black dots... sounds very tresure Island'ish! Are they the good places or bad places? And for the west, yes the right hand "seaside" side is what we call the west.
Very interesting. Thankfully, I live in the red. My house in the states made a best area to live 15-20 years ago. By 2020 it was horrible, housing developments, traffic, tourists. Completely ruined it. Part of the reason why we left.
Sounds fair comment!
La Vienne is a river which flow north, so the southern part is higher in altitude (haute ou amont) and the norther part is lower (basse ou aval)...it it precisely like haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin...the former is south and the latter is north becuase the Rhin flows northwards towards the netherlands. Haute Loire / Loire is another exemple, with teh former in the south
I did actually now about the river factor, just it always seems weird to me when one is below another on a map.
@@FrenchEstateAgent i understand, it is confusing indeed...in France rue haute and rue basse is also super common and it is based on the altitude. But a counter exemple is basse Normandie and Haute Normandie, ahahah just to confuse everyone further. By the way, my home departement of Meuse and Haute marne are super popular among Belgians, Dutch and Luxembourgers (and we even got Chinese investors buying an old school for a cooking school recently)..they buy loads of manoirs/chateau/farms and houses. Super affordable...but yes, the average temperature is a bit colder than the white area on your map.
Hilarious. A real estate agent who is based in Brittany and covers Normandy, Pays de la Loire, Nouvelle Aquitaine and parts of Occitanie is recommending you buy in - wait for it! - Brittany, Normandy, Pays de la Loire, Nouvelle Aquitaine and the Lot, a part of Occitanie!
All this based on maps that are either outdated, show no key or don't represent what he's telling you they represent (the map at 3:26 for example isn't the "up and coming areas for starting up a business". It's just showing you areas where there were the most private sector jobs created because of engineering, IT and consulting.) Or he happily ignores the "negatives" that his maps convey, like the one at 4:39 which tell us to discount the Charente or the Dordogne because doctors are scarce!
Come on, Dan. Stop taking your viewers for idiots.
To be perfectly honest with you, I had absolutely no plan to where it was going to end, it turned out corresponding to our sector. If you have seen any of my other videos you will see that I am a straight speaker. The fact that we cover these areas might simply because of the results, not the opposite.
11:40 - That is Victorian coast near Bells beach Australia, not France.....
Does it matter?
I would love to hear what you think of the town of Niort? it is in the area you feel is best for many reasons. Any knowledge of that town/area? Considering retiring in that area, my boyfriend is from La Rochelle.
Niort is very well known for its one way system, so unfortunatley, like the majority of French, I avoid going there and just carry on past on the motorway. It might be a lovely place, but honestly, I haven't been for 20 years.
Australia has a farm bigger than France..
Never thought about that, but not surprised!