The health crisis had multiple consequences, sometimes unexpected. It will thus have convinced the townspeople to return to living green. “In ordinary times, we have between 30 and 40 calls per day. With confinement, this figure doubled , notes Patrice Besse, director of the agency of the same name, specializing in character properties. People in big cities want to leave them. Today, real luxury is space. ” Of the 500 properties that his agency has in its portfolio, 50 are protected buildings, that is to say classified historic monuments or registered in the additional inventory.
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A criterion that rarely enters into the specifications of candidates for acquisition. “Unlike foreign buyers who first seek a geographic location, generally close to Paris, the French are looking for a specific era or architectural style. None come by asking us, from the outset, for a historic monument, " says David Mercier,
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