Happy New Year

It has been a perfect start to 2025 here in the foothills; we had a big snow fall up in the mountains and ski resorts just before the Christmas holidays and, since then, it has been wall-to-wall sunshine and blue skies with frosty mornings and clear, bright days.

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The property market in southwest France at the end of 2024 – and what will 2025 bring?

The French property market has had a bumpy ride in 2024 with high interest rates and tightened lending criteria making financing more difficult for buyers, significantly slowing market activity. As anyone who has been searching for property in southwest France over the last year will know, there has been a distinct lack . . . → Read More: The property market in southwest France at the end of 2024 – and what will 2025 bring?

La Rentrée in the Foothills

September in France means La Rentrée (the only equivalent we have in English is back-to-school) but in France La Rentrée is not just for school children; it is for every French person getting back into work after the summer holidays. Even if not everyone has managed to take the whole of August . . . → Read More: La Rentrée in the Foothills

Bagnères de Luchon makes top 10 of best places to live in France

In the latest ‘Ville de Reve’ (dream town) survey of the almost 40,000 towns and communes across France, the small town of Bagnères de Luchon, here in the foothills of the Pyrenees, came 10th (out of 34,900 towns surveyed). Pretty impressive for a town of just 2,220 inhabitants.

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