Picardy Property
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Buyer's guide to Picardy
Départements in Picardy(or Picardie): Somme (80), Oise (60) and Aisne (02).
If you don’t want a long journey to your French bolthole, it makes sense to buy closer to home. Thanks to the Channel Tunnel and improved fast roads British buyers can drive to north east France in two or three hours door-to-door – ideal for those who need to commute back to the UK on a regular basis. Sun-worshippers would do well to house hunt further south, but there’s no shortage of attractive coastline and countryside here, giving scope for numerous leisure pursuits.
Brick and colombage (half-timbering) tend to be the norm, but the “new build” option is worth considering, too. Having a house built to spec may be cheaper than undertaking a renovation project, and the latter is hard to find here, as Britons, Belgians and the Dutch have been buying steadily in the area for several years. The elegant coastal towns command premium prices, but look inland and you’ll find equivalent properties for considerably less – a small farmhouse in habitable condition and a good location might sell from around 100,000 €.
Picardie boasts architectural styles and prices similar to Pas-de-Calais, as well as prehistoric sites, gallo-roman remains, abbeys, churches, castles and WWI battle grounds. The A16 autoroute provides a fast and easy route to Paris, but proximity to the French capital and the UK means that property here is highly sought-after.
Temperatures across north east France are similar to those in south east England, ranging from 5 °C in December to 26 °C in August. Transport links to this area are plentiful, with low-cost flights from a variety of UK airports to Brussels-Charleroi and Strasbourg, the Eurostar service from London Waterloo to Lille (where you can change for connections), and a host of ferry and hovercraft Channel crossings between Dover-Calais and Dover-Dunkirk.
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