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Ma Prime Logement Décent: the French Grant That Pays up to 90% of a Wreck’s Repairs, and Who Actually Gets It

France’s Anah pays 60 to 90 percent of heavy works on a degraded home, up to €70,000, for modest households who live in it. Who qualifies (residents, not holiday-home owners), the five ways a house qualifies, the strings, the sister aid for landlords with no income test, and how to apply in the right order.
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The Foreign Owner’s Guide to the French Copropriété AGM (Assemblée Générale)

Convocation deadlines, proxies, postal votes, the four majorities and the procès-verbal: how the French copropriété AGM really works for foreign owners.
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Taxe Foncière Discounts: Which Ones Can You Actually Claim?

France offers six taxe foncière reliefs, from a €100 automatic discount to a cap that stops the bill exceeding half your income. Which ones a non-resident owner can actually claim, with the 2026 thresholds and deadlines.
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Is It Worth Contesting Your Taxe Foncière? A Decision Guide for Foreign Owners

Your taxe foncière keeps climbing, but the rate is not the part you can fight. How to check the cadastral base behind your bill for free, the five grounds that actually win, the deadlines, and when a réclamation is genuinely worth your time.
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The Commission Départementale de Conciliation, Explained

A tenant or landlord can bring the other before a free, State-run conciliation body long before any court is involved. What it can examine, whether its findings bind anyone, and why not turning up is the worst move available.

The Agent’s Licence: How to Check a French Estate Agent, and Who Pays When They Get It Wrong

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Every French estate agent operates behind a licence, a financial guarantee and compulsory insurance. How to verify the carte professionnelle in two minutes, what protects your deposit, and the case law making agents answer for the deals they touch.

The Agent’s Commission: What You Owe a French Estate Agent, and When You Owe Nothing

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France hangs an agent’s entire right to payment on a written mandate, a register number and a completed sale. When the commission is owed, who owes it, and the five decades of case law on agents who tried to get paid anyway.

The Foreign Owner’s Tax Map of France: What 47 Expat Towns Really Charge

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Official 2025 rates for the 47 French towns where foreign buyers concentrate: a 3.3x spread, the 90% club in the Dordogne, eleven towns with 60% second-home surcharges, and Paris up 50% in five years.

Beyond 90 Days: the Long-Stay Visitor Visa for French Second-Home Owners (2026)

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Owning a French home gives you zero right to stay past 90 days. The visitor visa fixes that: VLS-T vs VLS-TS, what the consulate wants to see, the real 2026 costs, and the two clocks - Schengen and tax - that owners most often confuse.

How to Raise the Rent on a French Property: A Landlord’s Guide to Revising a Residential Rent

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A landlord's guide to the three legal routes for raising a French residential rent: the annual IRL revision, increases after improvement works, and re-pricing an under-valued rent at renewal.

Taxe d’Habitation on a French Second Home: the 2026 Guide (and the 60% Surcharge)

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France scrapped the taxe d'habitation on main homes but kept it on second homes - and 1,628 communes now pile on a surcharge of up to 60%. What foreign owners actually pay in 2026, and how to lighten it.
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