“The French home buying experience is dramatically different from that in the USA. My wife and I wanted to borrow a substantial portion of the purchase price for a French property in order to allow us the opportunity to choose the time when we converted substantial US dollars into Euros, hopefully to achieve a better exchange rate than otherwise available. France Home Finance was very highly recommended to us by friends, so we contacted them and explained our goals. Our mortgage broker found several French home loan products that met our needs and handled and guided us through all of the necessary steps to obtain a desired loan.
She not only arranged for our financing, but she also assisted us with opening French bank accounts for us personally and for the French corporation we formed to acquire the house. She coordinated with the notaire with respect to the corporation formation and the closing requirements and she made certain that tasks were accomplished along the way in a timely manner to facilitate an easy closing process. Our purchase was not a simple one and wouldn’t have been even in the U.S. We bought the house through a corporation that had to be formed, we were requiring the sellers to perform specified renovation work on the home prior to closing, we speak French only poorly, and we were eight hours away from the action. These were all factors that France Home Finance had to deal with and they did so promptly and admirably.
The terms of the loan were great, particularly by U.S. standards, and the fee paid to France Home Finance was far less than the value of our mortgage broker’s assistance. The friends that recommended France Home Finance to us rave about them, and we certainly join in that endorsement.”