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The first Riviera property company to use full-motion homepage videos

Press release, Nice, France.    Totally Riviera has just launched its new homepage video service on its Cannes website. The company has become an industry leader in producing professionally edited videos of properties across its four internet platforms (Nice, Cannes, Villefranche and Languedoc) after repeated requests from clients who wished to see a more open […]

Angelina Jolie chooses Nice on the Riviera to have her twins

Wednesday, 2 July 2008 - Associated Press TV

American actress Angelina Jolie was still in hospital in Nice, France on Wednesday, awaiting the birth of her twins.
Staff at the seafront Lenval hospital in Nice in the south of France said on Tuesday that American actress Angelina Jolie had checked in to its Santa Maria maternity clinic, […]

Cooling off in Summer in the Languedoc, France

Posted by Allison Amour, Beziers, France
Summer is definitely here, days are starting to get really hot, don’t ask me how hot, and as I don’t want to know what is happening above 30 º C. So, last week-end I was not keen on roasting myself on the beach like a rotisserie chicken, fair skin, not […]

Client from Leeds loves Totally Riviera

“I think it is quite a tricky thing to buy a property in another country, even if you have come on holiday regularly to France and if you speak the language but there is always a horrible doubt that you might be ripped off as you don’t really know the system.

Financing your property in France - what mortgage to get

Totally Property Group Financial Advice - What Mortgage can I get?

Finding a mortgage in France to suit your needs is a fairly straightforward process. Mortgage lenders such as HBSC, UCB (formerly Abbey National) and Barclays, plus a host of other French banks, offer flexible loans of up to 85% of the property value, often for […]

Preparing for your French mortgage application

Totally Property Group Financial Advice - What documentation do you need?
Although you may have 30 or 45 days to get a mortgage agreement (depending on the contract) after the Compromis de Vente has been signed, it’s best to start building your mortgage file as quickly as possible. What follows should be everything you need to […]

Don’t loose sight of your dream property purchase because of exchange rates and market confidence

Totally Riviera speaks to Peter Brooke a financial Consultant with Spectrum-IFA. He explains how to buy your property and not be stung by exchange rates and the credit crisis 
It may appear nothing short of madness at the moment to be investing in foreign property. Interest rates are up, and sterling is weak compared to the euro. […]

Happy client from the other side of the world

Words by Professor Charles Mulvey from Perth Western Australia. Everyone told me I must be mad. I bought an apartment in Nice off the internet – I didn’t even see until after it had been renovated and furnished. Nobody who’s been there thinks I mad now – they all think that it was a great […]

Nice on the cheap

 Article by John Burnton - The Guardian newspaper 18 May 2008
The lowdown
Nice is the de facto capital of the Côte d’Azur, a Grande Dame the French often dismiss as being pour les riches et les vieux - for the rich and the old. But it has been recently transformed into a vibrant, cultural city. Although […]

It’s investment time on the Riviera

With so much uncertainty in the property market in places like the UK and the USA, prices are falling and clever investors are working on the principal that uncertainty is good. In other words it’s time to take advantage of a market in flux and according Dennis Broadfield, MD of the Totally Property group based […]

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