PROPERTY PURCHASE & RELATED SERVICES – available from A La Carte :
                     
With over 15 years’ experience in services related to purchasing property in France, we are the perfect choice of partner to make this exciting yet daunting experience an enjoyable one.  You will see from the various consultancy options highlighted at the end of this section (under Fees) that you can either ask us to help with pure translation, get us to assist with the most complex part of the purchase process or take up the fully consultancy service and allow us to take away all the worries and hold your hand right through to completion and beyond.
Consultancy Work   Written Translation  

  • Explanation of French purchase & checking of contract to make sure relevant conditions are included

  • Compromis de vente (initial sales contract) & written summary of any annexes
  • Arranging structural reports/surveys, outline planning permission certificates, building permits
  • Structural reports / also summary of termite, asbestos, lead, gas, DPE certificates
  • Arranging drainage inspection visits
  • Drainage inspection reports
  • Liaison with local banks regarding finance and opening accounts
  • Summary in English of mortgage offers (client’s particular conditions)
  • Liaison with notaire (solicitor) with regards to inheritance advice
  • Change of marriage regime contracts /wills /SCI statutes

  • Arranging for all utilities and insurance to be transferred into your name at completion
  • Summary insurance cover
  • Checking of final completion contract prior to    signature
  • Outline (CU) or full planning permission certificates
  • Accompanying clients to notaire’s office to interpret at completion
  • Final completion contracts
 
  • General correspondence relating to any consultancy work
    
Generally, A La Carte can offer you hand-held assistance throughout your
purchase, sale or project to take the worry out of the transaction for you and all you will be left to do at the end of it all is celebrate !
                                                                                                    Rates....

Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information or for an individual quote depending on the service YOU feel you require.  Don’t forget, our services can be made to measure and a mutually agreeable fee fixed for each client.
My husband also runs his estate agency business from Chasseneuil and I actually have my office attached to his agency.  However, my office is separate from the agency itself (as not all my clients are from the Tour de Clefs agency, nor are they all purchasers of property!) and I can reassure you that your request will be treated confidentially and professionally.
Client Recommendations:

Please take a look at some of the comments from clients we have already assisted with their property purchase.

"We have been highly satisfied with the consultancy and translation work Debbie has done for us, both before and since our arrival in France.  With her attention to detail, her promptness, her knowledge, her enthusiasm, together with her unfailing good humour and 'people skills', Debbie has proved herself time and again.  We would certainly have no hesitation in recommending her."
Ron and Irene Thurlby, Agris (16) France
"Debbie has not only translated official documents for us but guided us through the French legal minefields on purchasing a house, a piece of land and how to proceed in delicate areas of French etiquette. Her guidance has made potentially tricky situations quite easy for us. Her prices are very fair and if she thinks you can do part of the business without her holding your hand then she will advice you to do so and adjust fees accordingly. She is prompt, very efficient, professional yet kind and humerous into the bargain. We trust her advice. It is always a pleasure to have dealings with her and feel sure that A La Carte is destined to be a very successful enterprise."
Wendy and Denis Rowell, Le Lindois (16) France