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Buying and selling a home in France: What is the viager system?

France has an unusual way of buying and selling a home based on estimates of the seller’s life expectancy – vente en viager – which is the only realistic way for many homeowners to ‘release equity’ from their property

Published: 15 November 2021

Author: Liv Rowland

Viager system given new boost

The viager system of selling a home while continuing to live in it until death could get a new lease of life.

Published: 9 January 2014

Buying en viager can help expats

Life annuities can also help hard-up senior citizens obtain extra value out of their homes

Published: 26 October 2011

What's on the horizon for 2011?

Property, taxes, travel, politics - everything that's due to change in France this year

Published: 2 February 2011

Angry at France's inheritance rules

Notaires all agree the law is unjust but still nothing happens.

Published: 3 September 2010