0112 Sep
2026
2026
Paris Q1: why the 4e stopped discounting
Asking prices held while volumes fell 12%. We read 140 closed files to see who is actually buying.
“The discount moved from the price to the timetable.”
The journal.
What we learned on the floor, written by the people who were there.
The journal, newest first
Page 1 of 2No photographs · the writing onlyThree about something we got wrong
028 Sep
2026
2026
Reading a period building before you bid
The eleven things our advisors check on a first walk-through — and what each one costs to put right.
“A stucco ceiling is a receipt for how the building was loved.”
033 Sep
2026
2026
Buying off-market: what the paperwork looks like
The sequence from NDA to notary, and the three points where buyers usually lose weeks.
“Off-market is slower on paper and faster in practice.”
0427 Aug
2026
2026
Rue du Bac, from the quai to the boulevard, in the order you would walk it.
Which courtyards are quiet at eight, where the deliveries come at six, and the two buildings we would not buy in at any price.
“Number 41 has been on our floor three weeks with no survey ordered, and that is our fault, not the building’s.”
0521 Aug
2026
2026
Reading syndicate minutes without falling asleep.
Three years of minutes, four things that matter, and the paragraph that tells you what the building will ask of you in 2027.
“Read the last page first. That is where the money is voted.”
0614 Aug
2026
2026
The three surveys that cost their owners money — and the three homes that still sold.
Damp behind a bookcase, a lead pipe nobody had looked for, and a terrace with no permission. What each cost, and why we publish them anyway.
“Every one of the three sold. Two of them sold faster than the homes we said nothing about.”
076 Aug
2026
2026
The hour, and what it is for.
One hour, one buyer, one home, and the whole of it. Why we do not run three viewings in an afternoon, and what we write down afterwards.
“If I am looking at my watch, you are paying for somebody else’s appointment.”
0829 Jul
2026
2026
Quai Voltaire: what you are really buying when you buy a view.
The river, the traffic, the double glazing that does not help, and the four floors where it stops mattering — with sound readings taken at seven.
“Above the fourth floor the river stops being a noise and starts being a view.”
Nothing found — we have not written it yet, not taken it down.
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