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Buyer's guide to Paris
Département: Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Yvelines
The city of Paris is in fact one small département located in the heart of the Ile-de-France region, surrounded by other seven others. The region as a whole is home to over 11,000,000 people (and the largest number of English-speaking ex-pats in France), and the capital is densely populated. The cost of living here is high, but as you might expect, services and amenities are many. Average temperatures range from 7 °C (45 °F) in February to 25.6 °C (78 °F) in August, and it rains here roughly one day in three.
For many, the city buzz is a must. With its legendary monuments, sweeping boulevards, buzzing brasseries and oodles of romance, Paris a major tourist attraction as well as a seething metropolis. Of course, like all major cities, it has its downside. Madcap drivers and horrendous traffic jams, scruffy no-go quartiers with generous amounts of grafitti and dog poo – all this and rude waiters, too. Less than an hour’s flight or a mere three-hour train ride from central London, Paris is easily reached by air from hundreds of other destinations worldwide, and it has excellent rail connections to the rest of France, as well as other European destinations.
Classified into 20 arrondissements, France’s capital city offers many possibilities for prospective property purchasers. For foreign buyers, the preferred architectural style is usually the impressive, neoclassic stone building of the Haussmann era, featuring ironwork balconies, parquet flooring, cornices, open fireplaces and marble mantelpieces. However, for a more contemporary look, there are also many flats on the market within modern, well-built apartment blocks with balconies, lifts and underground parking.
Part of the charm of living here is the real community spirit that exists within each quartier, often in evidence at the Sunday morning market or in the neighbourhood shops and bars. Step out of the areas beloved of tourists (Montmartre, the Marais, the Ile de la Cité and Ile St-Louis) and plunge into the backstreets of more anonymous areas like the 11th or 20th arrondissements to find Parisians quietly going about their day-to-day business and get a real feel for this stimulating city.
Accommodation in Paris doesn’t tend to have much in the way of outside space, unless you count the odd communal courtyard or you’ve got a sizable budget and can buy in the greener suburbs to the west such as Neuilly or St-Cloud. What you will get however is a truly cosmopolitan environment, as well as short- and long-term financial rewards. Generally speaking, Parisian apartments cost half as much as flats in London, and the severe lack of rented accommodation in the city means that your Parisian pied-à-terre need never stand empty.
Up and coming areas with characterful neighbourhoods and accessible prices include Ménilmontant in the 11th, the Buttes aux Cailles (13th) and the streets around Belleville and the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (19th). A one-bedroom apartment in good decorative order can be found here from around 150,000 €. The 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements offer a quieter, more residential and resolutely upmarket setting, while the most exclusive areas such as the Place des Vosges can command sky-high prices in the order of 15,000 € per square metre.
Travellers from the UK to Paris and its surrounding areas are spoilt for choice. Air France (www.airfrance.co.uk), British Airways (www.ba.com), British Midland (www.britishmidland.com), Ryanair (www.ryanair.com) and Easyjet (www.easyjet.com) all offer direct flights into Paris-Charles de Gaulle from a variety of UK airports. Motorists can arrive via the Channel Tunnel or by ferry into Calais, take a short drive to Arras and then join the A1 south straight to Paris; there are also good road connections from Le Havre (ideal for the western suburbs) and Cherbourg. Eurostar (www.eurostar.co.uk) services run from London-Waterloo and Ashford into Paris-Gare du Nord, with regular rail connections on to outlying Ile-de-France towns.
Tourism:
www.paris-tourism.com
www.paris-touristoffice.com
www.visit-paris.com