4th House Visit It was the first week of February. We had been actively searching for a house to buy since the start of the year. However, we had only visited three houses so far. Our calls to real estate agents, hoping to make appointments to visit houses, were fruitless: either the houses had already …
Over four months from January to April 2021, we visited a total of eight houses. The following recounts three of our experiences. House Visits 1st House Visit On Saturday, 15 January 2021, we did our first house visit. Since it was our very first visit, we were super excited despite the gray winter sky on …
The pickings on seloger.com continued to be limited in the new year 2021. We were still performing mainly desktop property market research even after the lockdown had been lifted mid-December (but followed by curfew), reason being we had not found any potential ‘candidates’ for house visits. Silviu’s List of Castles Combing through seloger.com was …
I have never lived in a house. When I was in Singapore, I lived with my parents in a condominium, a condominium that my parents have been living in for close to forty years. The reason why my parents have never bought a house in Singapore is because they are not Singapore citizens. In Singapore, …
Our house search was launched right after the summer vacation, in September 2020. We started by poring through the information available on seloger.com, the most popular website used for the rental and purchase of residential properties. Unfortunately, not soon after our house search started, the number of Covid-19 cases returned with a vengeance. The French …
Anyone who has ever bought a house knows that the process is not an easy undertaking. Complications spike when you are buying your first house in a country where you are still trying to get your head around the various antiquated French administrative processes, speaking a language that you are not totally at ease with, …
If you are new to France, you might have mistaken today, 19 May 2021, to be a public holiday in France. You might have thought everyone in France is celebrating a national day, perhaps a day named ‘Terrace Day’ or ‘Fête des Terrasses’. You are not far out. 19 May 2021 is the first day …
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Guess what? Last night, the French President officially announced a national Covid-19 lockdown for the second time, starting from Friday, 30 October. French Lockdown, Season II. In the past five months since the gradual lifting of first national lockdown, the French government has reiterated that the country cannot afford another national lockdown as the first …
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France’s economy, like those of many countries, almost came to a complete standstill during the Covid-19 lockdown. For France, it was for two months from 17th March to 11th May. In these two months, only establishments such as pharmacies, hospitals, supermarkets, bakeries and weirdly enough, tobacco stores (“bureau de tabac”) that were deemed indispensable to …
On our first full day in Feissons-sur-Salins, we decided to do a warm-up hike before our two-day-one-night trekking trip in two days’ time. The plan was to explore the mountains just behind our chalet which would save us from driving to trailheads. We planned to do a shortish easy hike which would lead us towards …