10 Tips pour une Relocation Réussie en France
Sofime grows and internalizes immigration!
🚀 🚀 🚀 Ravies d’accueillir Violette / Happy to welcome Violette !🚀 🚀 🚀
🇫🇷 Elle vient consolider notre équipe en intervenant sur toutes les questions liées à l’immigration.
Internaliser les prestations immigration, c’est offrir à nos clients davantage de flexibilité et d’efficacité et de réactivité!
Diplômée d’un Master en Droit Social « mobilité des travailleurs », Violette a fait ses armes dans l’un des plus grands cabinets internationaux d’immigration puis dans une grande agence spécialisée dans la mobilité internationale.
Non seulement elle est une experte en immigration, mais elle excelle dans l’accélération du traitement des dossiers et les prises de rendez-vous consulat / à la préfecture en urgence : rien ne lui échappe, elle défend bec et ongles les dossiers de nos clients !
🇬🇧 Indeed she just joined our team to take care of all immigration matters.
By internalizing our immigration services, we offer more flexibility and efficiency and reactivity!
Violette completed a LLM in Labour Law with a specialization in workers mobility. She later won her spurs in one of the biggest international immigration agency. As well as in another big agency specialized in international mobility.
She is not only an expert in immigration but she excels in accelerating file processing in French administrations. Moreover she also masters in obtaining emergency appointments at the prefecture and at the consulate. Nothing gets past her because she fights tooth and nail for our clients!
50 Google reviews with 4.9 stars !
🚀 50 Google reviews for SOFIME Relocation 🚀
SOFIME Relocation has reached 50 Google reviews with 4.9 stars !
Client satisfaction is essential at SOFIME Relocation. That is why we try to provide the best possible client experience.
To that end, your reviews are precious to us. Not only do they reward the efforts of our collaborators, but they also act as a booster for improvement for all of us.
Thank you, dear clients, for these constructive and warm reviews.
If you are interested, you can read them here -> https://bit.ly/3M1CK07
🇬🇧Paris: is the COVID-19 rent price fall durable?
In the course of 2021, studies showed that real estate searches for Paris dropped significantly. Areas such as Brittany for instance were on a high rise. One could think that since Parisians were “deserting” the capital for more green or blue, the housing market should have been more accessible to those who decided to stay or those who chose to settle there.
Well, that did not happen… or at least only temporarily. Surprisingly, rent prices in Paris have never been higher than they are now!
It all started with a promising trend for tenants. Indeed, rental prices suffered their first decrease in over 20 years during the first and second lockdown in 2020. A lot of people were traumatized being locked-in for months in their tiny apartments. And decided to leave the City of Lights to find bigger ones or even houses, that they could never even dream of having in Paris. This had a strong effect on provincial rental markets, bringing consequently local rent prices up.
However, looking at the bigger picture, the “COVID decrease” in Paris was nothing compared to the 26% rise of the 10 past years…
Moreover, since life has taken its (almost) normal course again, rents have risen consequently in Paris to compensate the losses that some landlords had to put up with for nearly a whole year.
In rent-capped areas, such as Paris and some close suburbs, the maximum price paid for a meter square is set by local authorities. That is how they prevent soaring prices. But even those have risen in average by 1,5%. Rents are rising in all arrondissements, and the line becomes thinner and thinner in terms of price differences. Indeed, a lot of popular / peripherical areas display big jumps, showing a smothering trend on prices.
Additionally, since COVID restrictions are fewer, foreigners and expats are coming back to Paris as company transfers start again. And we can definitely witness that they are adding up to the pool of an already very strong demand. Even if they usually stay away from vibrant / popular areas and turn to safe bets, such as the West of Paris.
All in all, it seems that the Parisian rental market is reaching again a balance. And it is now confirmed that, unfortunately, tenants’ hopes were illusory. And that eventually, rents will remain extremely high in Paris…
2021 –> 2022 = a new year in numbers 🎉
🇬🇧 100% of 5 stars Google reviews !
We just hit 30 Google reviews ! 100% of 5 stars Google reviews for SOFIME Relocation, in other words our clients satisfaction is at its highest.
Thank you all for your warm messages!
It is true we throw ourselves at 200% into each of our missions, as it is our passion. Most importantly, all your messages are going straight to our hearts ! It is gratifying and moreover it boosts our involvement and determination, always to provide the best of services to our clients! Hence, you can fully trust SOFIME Relocation to be your best ally through your relocation to France.
🇬🇧 2021 = big + changes for SOFIME !
The SOFIME team is in full transformation 🙂
- First, Agathe will be away for a few months for the best of news because she welcoming a baby! See you next summer !
- Second, Joana, our new recruit, just joined SOFIME Relocation! Multilingual and full of spirit, we are welcoming her warmly this month.
- And third, Alexandra just moved to Switzerland, to follow her husband. However there is a but, and a good but! Indeed she continues working for SOFIME Relocation… from there! Those last months have convinced us that home office and efficiency go hand in hand, when properly organized. Yet… she will regularly come back to deal with some missions, because she already misses fieldwork!
As you probably understood, the SOFIME team is coping great with unexpected events!
In a bit more than one year, we have welcomed in our team 4 collaborators, with complementary skills and personalities, which are backing our growth and development with passion.
Sophie, Diane and Alice are sticking by their daily job, always ready to handle new missions: for them, change is not for now!
Happy New Year 2021 🥳 !
Nous sommes experts de la relocation à Paris et en France depuis plus de 10 ans. Par conséquent, nous assurons tout service en lien avec la mobilité professionnelle. Et cela toujours avec le sourire!
We are experts in relocation in Paris and in France for over 10 years. Hence we offer any type of service linked to professional mobility, and always with a smile on!
🇬🇧 Costs to foresee when relocating
During a relocation, one does not necessarily realize that there will be a lot of payments to make at the same time. So as to prevent bad surprises, you need to foresee all the costs. And you need to have sufficient funds in your bank account on the D-Day ! SOFIME Relocation helps you get a better idea of how much you will have to spend upon arrival.
→ 1st rent
Depending on when your lease starts and how the rent is calculated, you will have to pay either a full month rent, or a prorated rent. The latter will be based on the amount of days covered by the lease in the first month.
→ Deposit
For a primary residence personal lease (which is the most common lease), the deposit is 1 month rent (charges deducted) for empty apartments. On the other hand it is 2 months rent (charges deducted) for furnished apartments. If the rental lease is a company lease, or a secondary residence lease, it might be even more! (see our article about the different types of leases, as well as the one about furnished / unfurnished apartment, for better understanding).
→ Agency fees
For a primary residence personal lease, the agency fees are regulated by law. Hence it can be maximum 15 euros per sqm (incl. administrative + check-in fees). However, for company leases and secondary residence leases, there is no maximum. As a result they can rise up to 13% of the annual rent. But if you rent your apartment directly with the owner, there are no agency fees.
→ House insurance
In France, having a house insurance is mandatory. As a consequence you need to subscribe to a house insurance as soon as you have signed the lease contract. The estate agency will ask you to provide an insurance attestation on the day of the checkin in the apartment. Importantly, if you do not have it, you will not get your keys… So make sure your housing insurance is valid starting the 1st day of the lease! The insurance contribution depends on the size of the apartment, how much protection you want against risks and on the value of your belongings. Count for a small 2 room apartment around 150 euros.
→ Moving costs
If you move with your furniture, do not forget to foresee the cost of moving. From one country to another, it can be very expensive.
🇬🇧 Furnished apartment or not? That is the question!
Before starting to look for an apartment, you need to decide if you would prefer a furnished or empty one. Of course this will depend on your own situation. For one thing, furnished apartments are more expensive in France than empty ones, and both type of contracts do not follow the same rules. SOFIME Relocation helps you find here all the important things you need to know in order to make up your mind:
→ Furnished apartments
A furnished apartment is defined as a decent accommodation. It should have a sufficient number and quality of furniture to allow the tenant to sleep, eat and live properly. According to the law (and in case of Bail Loi Alur only), a furnished rental lease follows the subsequent rules: (See our article about the different types of rental leases existing in France for better understanding):
– 1 year duration with tacit renewal.
– 2 months deposit (excl. charges).
– 1 month leave notice for the tenant.
– 3 months leave notice for the landlord.
→ Empty apartments
An empty accommodation consists of an apartment without any piece of furniture (nor fitted kitchen). The rules of this type of rental are different from those of the furnished rentals. And they are once again following the law (in case again of Bail Loi Alur only).
– 3 years duration with tacit renewal.
– 1 month deposit (excl. charges).
– 3 months leave notice for the tenant, shortened to 1 month for densely populated areas (such as Paris). You can find the list of areas considered as densely populated here.
– 6 months leave notice for the landlord.
→ TIP: In any case – furnished or unfurnished apartment – the landlord can terminate the contract in 3 situations only:
– When he/she wants to live himself/herself in the apartment, or he/she wants to accommodate someone from his/her own family.
– If he/she wants to sell the apartment
– Whenever he/she has a serious and legitimate reason to do so (for example if the tenant is not paying the rent, if the tenant damaged the property, or in case of neighborhood disturbance).
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