It is 4km from small town with 4 doctors, 3 nurses, 5 kinés, a midwife, dentist and a podologue. School, shops, weekly small market and a bus that takes you to a bigger town with a train station.
In the centre of a triangle between Geneva, Dijon and Lyon. And with a mature plantsman’s garden.
If anyone wants more information, just ask!
(We are very disappointed with the agent’s presentation; in real life the house is far better proportioned than the images suggest. )
The architecture’s so different to the styles around us, curious to know when does yours date from.
Hope you sell it quickly - my youngest brother has just sold his flat in Brighton (Hove actually) two days after it went online - they’ve upgraded to a half million squid small Victorian end terrace with a fine view of a large factory from the back garden.
It looks lovely @JaneJones. I understand what you mean about the proportions but it photographs very well.
Although we’re several years away from a move, we entertain ourselves by looking at French properties and never cease to be amazed at how poorly presented the listings regularly are. Your’s looks really good.
When we put our Cumbrian house (‘an C18th fisherman’s cottage’!) on the market I insisted on taking all the photos, mainly with a standard 50mm lens and corrected any parallax and other stuff in Photoshop.
Unfortunately, due to Brexit related market uncertainties, it still took us two years to sell the bloody place…
@Shay , I was a Realtor in the US prior to retirement. I worked with a really great photographer who took photos, including aerial, as well as video, and usually hired a stager for at least a “walk and talk”. I know that this is not the US, and I shouldn’t make comparisons, but still…I am often appalled at the photos that I see here.
Entirely agree. She used the ones we gave her of the gîte, but not our house. And we even showed her some well presented listing to explain what we expected. Still ended up with something that we’re not happy with. Plus it’s 7 bedrooms, not 6.
It’s shocking! We sold two houses in Ireland, the most recent being 20 years ago (when the market was still so hot you could’ve sold a house by standing on a street corner and shouting!) and the quality of presentation even back then was levels beyond what we see so much of in French listings now. And you so often don’t see a photo of the exterior!
As you say about the US - we’ve bought three and sold two homes here - the quality of the photos, videos, and virtual tours have been outstanding.
Good luck with all of this Jane. Hope things go smoothly for you over the coming months.
Yes, the photos are not good and do not do your place justice. But then so they are on most agents’ sites. Could you do your own website as well? Not that you need more work I’m sure.
Your setting and surroundings are gorgeous.
Who is your target market? French? Foreign? If foreign are they putting you on Rightmove etc?
But targets British I believe? Chances of a British buyer are minuscule, so we are looking for Swiss, German on Belgian. Our useless Agency is half Swiss and has an office by Geneva.
Well if those photos are not doing it justice @JaneJones it must be worth every penny of what you are asking.
I do not expect to move again in this lifetime so was chuffed (because it favoured my purpose) that when ours was valued by our old friend immo for the inheritance, he shook his head and said €45-€50 thousand.
The only other time I have sold a home was the lovely flat we had near Nottingham. One agent, a near to retirement old bloke, said £20,000, and the other a mini-skirted 20 something (who we nicknamed ‘Legs’ ) said £30,000. Guess who we went with.
It was sold at that price before lunchtime to a young man who was in a panic because he thought if he put it off to the afternoon (he had others to view) it would be gone. Never even had the time to take the photos, never mind actually put it on the market.
A few years earlier we tested the market and had just 2 views and no offers.
At a friend’s flat in ‘outer-central’ London [Wandsworth/Ealing/Camden etc] she said her ad in The Evening Standard would be appearing in that evening’s edition.
There was a knock on the door. There stood a guy with a briefcase and the Standard.
“I live a few doors down, with some friends. Can I see your flat, please ? … [5 mins later] … I’ll have it for your asking. Here’s my solicitor’s details”
Back in 1999 I saw a flat in Crouch End one afternoon. I called the agent the next morning, asking for a second visit. “Sorry. Sold. They’re buying them on the description, unseen, over the phone”
I contacted a mortgage broker. I explained that I had just sold a small business and had no income, at present.
“No problem. I’ll send you the forms. Just fill it in and say how much you want”
Gorgeous house (and doggo!) - way outside my budget unfortunately!!
Estate agents tend to use the widest angle lens they can, to make rooms look bigger - unfortunately this creates distortion which makes the proportions look odd if you are familiar with the property.
In looking at houses online I always assume that the rooms are a third smaller than they look in photos!
We tried to tell her that the rooms are so large that she could dial back on the wide angle. The dining room now looks as if it has toy furniture in it - and it is not green!
That green cast is from all the luxuriant herbage outside your windows I think!
It needs a flash or two being used to light up the interior with neutral coloured light. Also putting on all the room lights will make it look warmer and more homely.
But estate agents are mostly too cheap to employ a proper photographer (unless it’s a multi-million property and then they go mad and have drone videos and glossy brochures done), so it was most likely shot by Madame Immo on a mobile phone…
Yes. My guy was amazing - he took three photos of each room with different lighting levels, and then blended them together to get great photos. No, he did not use Photoshop (unless it was for something small, like taking the “for sale” sign out of the shot if we forgot to move it). His photos were just beautiful and also accurate representations of the interiors and exteriors. Was it expensive? Yes. Was it worth it? Also yes.
) said £30,000. Guess who we went with. 
Never even had the time to take the photos, never mind actually put it on the market.
