Location is still the key when it comes to buying a property in France.

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Just as thousands of people from Britain, Ireland and elsewhere in the world are looking to buy houses in France, some foreign residents or second home owners are also trying to sell their French property. Indeed, in some parts of the country there is already a flourishing re-sale market between and among expat communities.

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