If you’re looking for sunny beaches, wonderful landscapes, great history and culture …French Riviera is definitely the ideal place to invest. Obviously you can find some other places in the world that offer you beautiful coastlines, good food and street markets for less money. Anyway, invest in French Riviera is safe !
French Riviera is one of the top tourist locations in the world. The economy is stable and there is no politics instability. Concerning properties, invest in French Riviera is very safe, given the rigorous buying process and protective legal system. Interest rates are still low compared to other countries even if they have been increasing since the end of 2007.
More over in some places in French Riviera, prices have been decreasing a little and locals are reluctant to invest in French Riviera or somewhere else in France. This is the good time for foreigners to invest in French Riviera, specially in big cities like Marseille, Nice or Antibes.
If you are the happy owner of a property on the French Riviera, you have to abide by French laws about swimming pool. Indeed, from January 2003, every owner of a swimming pool must set up a safety system to protect the access to the swimming pool. Many properties on the French Riviera are equipped with a swimming pool. The French laws about swimming pool impact both hotels and private properties.
Be careful, you can’t turn down the French laws about swimming pool, given that you have no children and you don’t welcome any of them in your property on the French Riviera. But if your swimming pool is an inside swimming pool with a door access or if your swimming pool is air filled, you are not concerned by the French laws about swimming pool.
Anyway, the majority of properties on the French Riviera are impacted. Owners must choose between 4 safety systems. Continue reading ‘French laws about swimming pool’
Given that Nice is the fifth city in France, traffic is a big issue. Cars are more and more numerous in French Riviera and it will increase by 25% until 2020. Nice city hall had to find a solution to relieve congestion in the city center. At the end of 2007, finally trolley cars entered the city. Works were very long and hard to bear for storekeepers downtown. But now the result is prodigious.
On one hand, the first trolley line reduces time between districts. For intance you can go from the north of Nice to the “Place Massena” within 14 minutes. By car, you have to drive 40 minutes and by bus it takes 30 minutes. Indeed, as parking are scarce, people stop their cars everywhere and specially on bus lines ! Trolley is the best solution because the lines are dedicated only to trolley cars and no other cars can go into. On the other hand, the city hall not only changes the streets for trolley cars but also improves streets and places on the Nice trolley run. €13,000,000 have been invested in the transformation of Nice famous place : “Place Massena”. The objective is clearly to make traffic easier dowtown and to offer bigger and nicer areas for pedestrians. Continue reading ‘Nice changes for the better’
