Equestrian property in France - where would you look to buy?

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If you were looking to buy an equestrian property abroad (France), where would you look?

I won't give too many details here but it is a large house, stables, loads of outbuildings, new outdoor school, cross country course and 25 acres with fabulous hacking right outside the gate. Fab place but the owners haven't got a clue where to advertise (apart from H.H. which they intend to look into).

Might need to message reply privately please, not sure of forum rules.

Thanks.

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I would do what I've just done and Google "equestrian property for sale in france", which brings up a load of websites with properties for sale, and I'd look through these.

I guess your friend needs to do the same, talk to a load of agents and see which ones take her fancy to advertise with.
 
Peregrine Falcon said:
I'd contact Shady.

(Then you can make sure you buy nowhere near the nutter! :D)
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PMSL you cheeky moo :D
Funnily enough iv'e been looking myself over the last few days as i want to move again this year and it's actually quite hard, sites suggest they have them then when you look they don't exist or it's difficult to use the website. Leggett is particularly awful.
Greenacres as suggested , Greenshifters, French Entree are good, you can put together your own advert which will be a million times better than any a French agent will do. You get a lot of time wasters but iv'e sold using Greenacres and saved a fortune in fees.
I think there is an English Estate agent with a good connection here , Right Move or Your Move, i can't remember which.
The problem with France is that everything is localised and web sites are often out of date and difficult to use as they are poorly designed and managed.
You pick the best of a bad bunch or do your own thing, the only good thing is that you can put the property with multiple agencies for the same fee but all will charge you between 5% -9% +vat and do sod all except photograph your toilet , dirty plates in the sink and tell you that your'e asking too much whilst the totally crap house down the road owned by their uncles, sisters, brothers cousins friend is half the size and twice the price of yours even though it has no roof
 
DappleDown said:
If you were looking to buy an equestrian property abroad (France), where would you look?

I won't give too many details here but it is a large house, stables, loads of outbuildings, new outdoor school, cross country course and 25 acres with fabulous hacking right outside the gate. Fab place but the owners haven't got a clue where to advertise (apart from H.H. which they intend to look into).

Might need to message reply privately please, not sure of forum rules.

Thanks.

:)
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Would need to be run as a business as over three Hectares
As far south as my money would stretch to would be my best location
 
DappleDown said:
If you were looking to buy an equestrian property abroad (France), where would you look?
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The question is a bit unclear...

Do you mean "how would I find information about properties for sale", or "in which part of France would I find properties for sale"?

I'd start by choosing a region, and the choice would depend on why I wanted to buy.

If you're thinking of starting a business running English language equestrian holidays, then look at Normandy, with easy travel from the terminal at Coquelles channel crossing and at anywhere in the southern half of France with easy travel from an airport with Air Cheapskate flights to and from the UK.

Otherwise, Normandy is nice and lush and green, but there's a reason for that: it has basically the same climate as the UK and Ireland.

France is big enough and has a wide enough range of geology that you can almost certainly find a climate and landscape that you'd like; so my recommendation is to choose your region and then research estate agencies specialising in agricultural property.

A quick look for places in Calvados (Normandy) found 12 places (today... that's going to change, obviously.

I've ridden in the Dordogne, at a very nice place that was (last visited the summer of 2016) still working as a livery yard and breeding farm, with enough fields around that the woman running it would get neighbouring farmers to harvest hay for feed through the winter. I suppose she would buy in some supplements, but other than that it was self-sufficient for feed. She talked about perhaps wanting to sell, to buy a property closer to a town and run something more like a riding school.
 
Following with interest as our end goal is to buy an equestrian property in France, I follow French Property News on Facebook and horsey properties to do come up on there from time to time.
 
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