Pastures Greener

Buying property in any foreign country can seem a daunting and time-consuming prospect.  Specialising in French property in the Alpine Regions as well as in other prime locations in France, Pastures Greener offers to guide you as effortlessly as possible through the unfamiliar French purchase process. We pride ourselves on matching your requirements with the best the property market has to offer and working closely with you for as long as it takes to achieve that, so we begin by carefully defining your requirements and helping you to work out your budget and what you can expect to achieve in the current property market.  We then begin a research and selection process on your behalf and in close collaboration with you which will culminate in a tailored viewing trip where you will visit a carefully-chosen selection of properties that match your criteria as closely as possible. Our aim is for you to be as fully prepared and informed as possible prior to viewing so that you are ready to move when you find the property you want. This avoids disappointment and prevents wasted trips which equal wasted time and money for you.

 

Pastures Greener is based in Morzine, the hub resort of the famous Portes du Soleil ski region located an hour’s drive from Geneva airport, and we specialise in property in this region as well as other top resorts in the French Alps. We work closely with a network of agents and developers in each locale and we showcase a selection of their property on our website  However we have access to much, much more and once we know your particular property search criteria we will conduct a thorough tailored search on your behalf in order to bring you the most relevant selection of property meeting your requirements at any given time.

 

The idea is that we provide a sole point of contact for your property search and, having listened closely to your needs and wishes, we will be ideally positioned to convey these to local agents, eliminating linguistic problems and saving you valuable time whilst enabling us to co-ordinate a well-organised viewing trip with no wasted time and no inter-agency conflict.

 

You may also choose to be kept informed of new property coming on to the market via our email updates. When you register  you can enter your search criteria and you will be automatically informed by email, which may give you a crucial head start over other buyers who are looking. You can update and alter your criteria at any time or choose to stop receiving updates if you so wish.

Our foremost concern is your comfort and satisfaction as a buyer. We fully appreciate that you may feel at a disadvantage as an English-speaking buyer in a foreign country with an unfamiliar legal system and Pastures Greener offers several years of expertise and personal experience to accompany you right through the process to completion and beyond. We have been in your shoes more than once ourselves and understand your perspective. Once we have identified together a property that you wish to buy then we will be with you to conduct negotiations on your behalf, advise on the formalities and legal process and liaise with the notaire, advise and help with translation of paperwork, financing of the purchase, currency exchange, legal representation and any other administrational issues that arise that you feel unequipped to deal with.

 

We at Pastures Greener position ourselves as independent property consultants and it is the agent representing the seller who remunerates us for bringing them a buyer and facilitating a sale, so our service is free of cost to you, the buyer.  This means you have no extra, unexpected costs to deal with on top of your budget. We are here to represent you, to find the French property of your dreams and make the purchase process as smooth and effortless as possible for you.