We signed, they signed, everybody signed
OK. We got to the notaires ten minutes before time, like you do. The estate agents arrived dead on half-past, along with a lady who turned out to be one half of the vendors. Eventually the other half of the vendors arrived, we were at full compliment and so we began.
We were ushered into the office of a jolly notaire who proceeded to read the acte de vente, which tuned out to be fairly straightforward. One unexpected piece of good news - Pessac is about the only part of Bordeaux not considered to be at risk of an environmental catastrophe (flooding, industrial explosion, etc! (Having said that, Blaye is not considered to be at risk, either, despite the presence of a dirty great nuclear power station.)
Once all had been read, and odd bits here and there explained, we initialled everywhere (2 vendors, 2 buyers) and signed in two places (2 vendors and 2 buyers) and we all shook hands and we went off with the keys.
We were ushered into the office of a jolly notaire who proceeded to read the acte de vente, which tuned out to be fairly straightforward. One unexpected piece of good news - Pessac is about the only part of Bordeaux not considered to be at risk of an environmental catastrophe (flooding, industrial explosion, etc! (Having said that, Blaye is not considered to be at risk, either, despite the presence of a dirty great nuclear power station.)
Once all had been read, and odd bits here and there explained, we initialled everywhere (2 vendors, 2 buyers) and signed in two places (2 vendors and 2 buyers) and we all shook hands and we went off with the keys.
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