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.
Advisor · Desk 07Paris 4e, 140 closed filesRead it
Paris rooftops in autumn
The journal.
What we learned on the floor, written by the people who were there.
The journal, newest first
Page 1 of 3Newest firstTwenty-seven pieces · three of them about something we got wrong
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.
Surveyor · guestEleven checks, one walk-throughRead it
Stucco ceiling detail
Buying off-market: what the paperwork looks like
The sequence from NDA to notary, and the three points where buyers usually lose weeks.
Notaire · guestFrom NDA to notaryRead it
Notary desk with documents
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.
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Rue du Bac looking north, morning
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. A notaire explains what he looks for first.
Notaire · guestAny building of more than four lotsRead it
The courtyard the minutes keep arguing about, rue Jacob
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 one cost, what each buyer paid, and why we publish them anyway.
Advisor · Desk 07Three homes, 6th and 7thRead it
An empty hall before the surveyor arrives, rue Jacob
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.
Advisor · Desk 07How we keep hoursRead it
An empty flat with the shutters half open
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 the sound readings we took at seven in the morning.
Advisor · Desk 0722 quai VoltaireRead it
The quai façades at dawn, seen from the fourth floor
Fourteen sales, and how far each one landed from its asking price.
Every sale we made in the last twelve months, the asking price, the price paid, and the days it took. The median is 2.4 % under asking, and the outliers are the interesting part.
Advisor · Desk 07Fourteen homes, one yearRead it
The desk’s archive, where the fourteen files are kept
Damp: what is a stain, and what is a bill.
Four kinds of damp, how each one smells in August, and which of them a surveyor can settle in an afternoon. Two of the four cost nothing to put right.
Surveyor · guestGround and first floorsRead it
A cellar wall behind the moved shelving
What a mandate actually says, in the order it says it.
Exclusive or simple, the term, the fee and the line about who pays for the survey. A notaire reads one aloud, clause by clause, and says where owners usually stop reading.
Notaire · guestAny mandate, any deskRead it
The room where a mandate is read aloud, rue Jacob
We sent a report a day late in March, and the buyer had already decided.
Thirty-one hours between the hour and the signature. What she had worked out on her own by then, and what we changed the following week so it would not happen again.
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The Saint-Dominique sitting room, the morning of the hour
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