FRENCH GITES - running holiday rentals in France
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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 businessThis 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 |
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Marketing a gite or rental property in FranceYou'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 designAs 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 |
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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. |
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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 |
FactsheetsWe 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 |
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Special mentionsSome 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. |
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