French property management market

Purchasers who want a holiday home often intend to occupy it for only two or three months of the year. While it can be let out, non-resident owners will need a property manager who can action changeovers, let customers in, and check the property, as well as maintaining the property, dealing with any emergency repairs that might be needed, and ensuring bills are paid promptly and rent is collected on time.

Some long term property owners make informal arrangements with locals - one British resident in Haute-Vienne lets her neighbour's goats cut the lawn when she's not there! At completely the other end of the spectrum, if you buy a property in a résidence de tourisme (basically a resort property) it will come with management services included. However, most buyers of French property are somewhere in between those two extremes; that's where property managers can make life much simpler.

The market for property management in France is quite well developed - at least partly because rental remains more common than in many other countries. Many French families rent the house they live in, and own a maison secondaire in the country or on the coast; over 35% of French homes are rented. That's before you think about holiday rentals and corporate rents, or rentals to expatriate workers (in Paris and other larger cities).

房产管理专家

大多数大城市都会有比较多的大型房产管理公司，处在市场最顶端的是一些大型的国际性的房地产公司，比如Savills和Barnes International，他们通常会非常富有的人提供服务。而一些个体管理人员可以为房主提供量身打造的服务。如果想要在乡村地区找会说英语的房产管理人，可以考虑Les Bons Voisins，这个网站几乎覆盖了海外买家所热衷的所有区域。

如果采用的是regime réel税制（以房租收入扣除实际花销作为征税基础），那么可以将房产管理的成本从租金收益中扣除。这个决定一定要在租房之前做好，因为通常要涉及到与法国政府机构和税务打交道。听从专业人士的建议是很明智的做法。