Read Up about French Healthcare in English
All of us at Cle France hope that you are all keeping well, and coping with staying at home, I hope our property newsletters at the weekend kept your spirits up!
We are taking advantage of updating our property listings this week and adding all those new agent listings that we never had time to add before, so you will see another 2000 to 3000 properties being added during April.
Hopefully this situation will not go on for too long, and you will be thinking about your next trip to France very soon.
In the meantime this crisis has certainly made us all think about our general health, and whilst we usually live our lives thinking that the worst probably won’t happen, this virus has proven that we all need to be prepared in the event that it does. So for those of you thinking about and planning your new life in France, health care will be one of your priorities.
My colleague Ceri Hollingworth at Exclusive Healthcare can take all the stress out of getting registered for health care in France: she is English, but has been brought up in France, and is perfectly bi lingual; not only that, she is a specialist in French Health Care and helping English speaking clients, so the ideal person to help you navigate your way through the system.
Ceri can even offer you temporary cover, from the day of your arrival, which will be in place until you are able to be registered fully into the French system.
Make sure that ‘Contact Ceri’ is at the top of your ‘to do’ list, and she can ensure you have one less thing to worry about!
Stay Well and if you want some interesting reading then you can of course Get Your Free PDF Guide to Health Care in France here
Kind regards,
Sharon Evans
Founder of Clé France.
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Cle France and Key Currency - Here to help you
We at Cle France and Key Currency have been overwhelmed with thoughts and messages from our loyal clients, we really appreciate your kindness.
The most important thing for us all at the moment is to stay happy and well at home and we will of course keep your spirits up by sending you lovely properties to browse through.
Our colleagues at Key Currency will continue to keep you updated on the currency markets.
And don't forget they can lock-in an exchange rate for you ahead of any transaction you might make in the future, giving you even more peace of mind.
Some of you may indeed be in the middle of the process of buying or selling a property abroad: we are on hand to answer any questions you might have, regardless of whether you are buying or selling through us or not.
Some of you may also need to be paying international bills on your existing properties abroad or indeed need to send money to family:
Key Currency will happily chat to you and assist you in any way they can.
Kind regards,
David Evans
Co-Founder of Cle France.
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Coronavirus Travel Update
As of 17/03/2020, the UK Government is advising against all non-essential travel abroad for an initial period of 30 days.
At the moment most cross channel services are still operating including Brittany Ferries, DFDS, Eurostar and The Shuttle, albeit on reduced timetables, in both directions.
However travel in France is severely restricted by Presidential decree: people are not allowed to leave their homes or be on the roads unless they have a printed off declaration with them, to explain why they are out.
There are five reasons the general public are allowed outside their homes and they are as follows:
- travel to work, only if working from home is impossible.
- going to pick up essential supplies, from Government approved establishments.
- for health reasons ie. doctor or hospital appointments (though increasingly patients are taken to hospital by the army).
- for family reasons, to attend to someone vulnerable, either a dependent child or elderly relative.
- taking a dog for a walk, or individual exercise but people must remain close to home to do this.
In terms of travelling through France (say driving off the tunnel or ferry), this is only permitted under the following circumstances:
- If you are returning to to your main residence.
- Essential work in France.
- If you are medical staff.
So yes, you can enter for those reasons but once there must abide by the restrictions above, which initially remain in place for two weeks.
So at the moment in France, every time you leave your home you need to fill in a form, and it needs to be a new form for each trip. The form can be downloaded here (although the Interior Ministry's site was clearly struggling with traffic levels on Tuesday morning).
Hope that helps to clarify the position, we will keep you updated as the situation develops, and of course keep sending you lovely properties so that you can enjoy browsing from home for the time being!
Stay Well and if you want some interesting reading then you can of course Get Your Free PDF Guide to Health Care in France here
Kind regards,
Sharon Evans
Founder of Clé France.
Coronavirus Update
As most of you will be aware President Macron has issued a Presidential Decree that all non essential business in France be closed for the next two weeks.
This has meant that estate agencies in France have closed, and property viewings are currently suspended, with estate agents working from home.
However, the Clé France office is continuing to work normally: our website is being continually updated, we continue to advertise our listings on major property portals, and we are available to clients as usual on email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Our service remains uninterrupted, so do please continue to browse the website and send in your enquiries as usual, we will respond to them as quickly as possible.
We will keep you updated via our newsletters on the situation in France, and our agents, who will of course strictly follow all government directives in these matters, hope to resume property viewings as soon as the current restrictions are lifted.
A lot of our clients at the moment are taking the opportunity of downloading our Free PDF Guides covering many aspects of buying and selling property abroad. The guides give you expert advice about the buying process in France, Brexit, French Healthcare, Currency Exchange and much more.
Most importantly, I wish all our clients, colleagues and their families well.
We are all in this together and we will get through it together.
Kind regards,
Sharon Evans
Co-Founder of Cle France.
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