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Indexation of lease contract

21 Avril 2008

The (11 year) commercial lease we have been offered as part of a ski apartment leaseback in the French Alps is supposedly indexed to the French Construction Index (CCI). However, there is no rental increase until yr6, and then annual increases are capped at 1%. This is way below what the CCI annual increase has been recently. Is this typical - what annual increase are you achieving/been offered?

Valority

16 Avril 2008

Hi All,

Currently talking to an Irish office of a company called Valority about a potential lease back property.

Also talked to French Property Ireland; did anyone do business with them and what is your feedback?

Thank you for your help.

Where to sell a leaseback?

16 Avril 2008

I have a 38 square metre top floor apartment in Paris, St Denis with a double width balcony and underground parking space. The rent is paid regular at 1930 euros a quarter and has been for over 2 years, a Metro station will be opened with 1000 metres by 2012.

I want to sell, can anyone point me where to go and who to use, what I might expect to sell for? Will selling with the lease intact cause problems, restrict buyers?

Pay Tax on French Leaseback VAT refund?

1 Avril 2008

Hello All,

I am purchasing a French Leaseback property and even my French accountant can't assure me whether I will pay any UK tax on the 19.6% VAT refund? I should tell you that I am one of 3 people who have formed an SCI in order to purchase our leaseback property. In my mind, we would be drawing the VAT refund from the French bank account to which the SCI is linked, all into our personal English (where we are resident) bank accounts.

I welcome your suggestions,

Dan Hazlehurst
 

No tenant for one whole year

12 Février 2008

I have a bought a Lease-Back in Carcasonne and one year later, no tenants have been found for almost half of the 80 apartments in the block. What I had mistaken for rent on my account each month was in fact insurance

- I discovered this by accident when calling the 'gerant' about something else - there has been no official communication giving updates.

- There may be a problem with the tax rebate due to no tenant and therefore no real rental income

No Tenant and time is running out

12 Février 2008

Has anybody had the same experience. I live in France and bought a "lease-back" in Carcasonne. Everything went like a dream until I realised that the sums of money appearing on my bank statement every month was not in fact rent but insurance. I discovered this in November when during a conversation with the Estate managers, they 'happened' to mention that I had not tenant. This is February, the insurance runs out soon and still no tenant. Has anybody else had a similar problem, there are so many people in the chain that it is hard to know where to start as 'nobody' is responsible.

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