Monthly Archive - January 2010
January 29, 2010
Buying a holiday home in France as a group of friends or family is a popular option and can be a good investment. However, with the present economic climate it is becoming common for some part-owners to want to sell their shares - an issue which can cause complications. Relatives ...
January 28, 2010
The éco-prêt à taux zéro is an interest-free loan of up to €30,000 to improve your home's energy efficiency. It became available from banks in April 2009. THE loan is one of the key planks from 2007's Grenelle de l'Environnement at which the French government met with key players in ...
January 27, 2010
Owners who want to sell their lovely country house in France had better cut the price from the market peaks and not by five or ten per cent - but by a whopping 20 or 30 per cent. That's the message from Charles Smallwood, a UK-qualified chartered surveyor and owner of ...
January 26, 2010
France will enact a law as early as the end of March levying a 50 percent tax on bonuses above €27,500, or $40,000, regardless of whether they are paid in cash or shares, Ms. Lagarde was quoted as saying by Le Figaro in an interview published Tuesday. The law will ...
January 25, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, a newspaper reporting from the grim housing projects just on the wrong side of the Paris city limits said that vaccinations against a potential flu epidemic there ran significantly lower than would have been expected. The reason, according to Le Parisien, quoting local administrative officials and ...
January 22, 2010
The French and German governments on Monday raised their growth forecasts for 2010 in a further sign that the eurozone’s two largest economies are set for a steady if unspectacular recovery. Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, said she expected the French economy to expand by 1.4 per cent, almost double the ...
January 21, 2010
The BBC has uncovered a loophole in French banking law that allowed a fraud of 2m euros (£1.8m) to be carried out. A British financial adviser diverted funds from clients into his personal bank account simply by countersigning their cheques. Warren Templeton used the money to indulge his taste for luxury cars, ...
January 20, 2010
France will raise about €360 million ($523 million) from its tax on bankers' bonuses, the finance minister said in an interview published Tuesday. The 50 percent bonus tax that France is putting in place this year will hit about 2,500 bankers, traders and other finance professionals, Christine Lagarde said in an ...
January 19, 2010
Travel and property exhibitors at The France Show at Earl’s Court, London, reported a busy show on Saturday 9 January despite the total number of visitors expected to be around half of last year’s figure. “Generally the quality of buyers was better than at other shows and a lot of people ...
January 18, 2010
France has been named the best place in the world to live for the fifth year running, according to research by a US magazine. International Living - which specialises in overseas relocations - ranked 194 countries around the world for its 2010 Quality of Life Index. It gave France 82 ...
