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This site is for those hoping to establish gites or holiday rental properties in France. If you are here looking to find a gite holiday...please visit Gites in France where you will find all the choice you could hope for!

Buying and running a French gite business This section is for anyone who is buying, running and marketing gites, rental property, or a gite complex or business in France. To learn how to go about buying a gite or gite complex in France see...Running a rental property

Marketing a gite or rental property in France You've bought it and got everything up and running - now you need to think about marketing your gite so that people actually find you...Marketing and advertising		Gite website design As part of your marketing effort you need a website, so that you can easily supply your potential customers with all relevant information. We no longer prepare websites for others but have written a guide so you can do it yourself!... Gite website design

How much to spend on advertising? An advert on an internet property listing site will cost £100-£300 per year, six months advertising in a widely read magazine might cost £400. An internet site will cost perhaps £500 (less if you do it yourself - see Make your own gite website and last perhaps two - three years before it needs substantial changes ....		Can I earn a living running gites in France? I sometimes get queries about the realities of buying a gite complex in France, so I thought it would be interesting to look at some real-life examples. If you have a plan to move to France and run gites, send it to us for review, and we will post a response that tries to help.

Buying a property in France? See the property listings at our partner site for Property to buy in France. Includes properties for renovation, new properties, restored properties etc...perhaps even a French castle or two		Factsheets We have added some general factsheets to help you with the processes of marketing, advertising, and developing your website so that you can be as successful as possible...Factsheets

		Special mentions Some partners we like to mention include Holidays in France - in case you arrived at this website hoping for a holiday rather than a lesson in business - and France south! We also occasionally submit words of wisdom to this Holidays around the world site. You might find other helpful sites at our invaluable information.