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Welcome to the French Houses website. Our aim is to make the purchase of your property in our particular area of France as painless, as interesting and as pleasant as possible! A glance at the details below will tell you in an instant why yau are likely to chose the Poitou Charentes as your area for your holiday home or new residence! Once you add to that, the accessibility to the main motorways linking the Vendée and the Deux-Sèvres departments to the channel ports, and the existence of the airports at Nantes, La Rochelle and Poitiers, all within 1 - 1½ hours drive, and all extremely well served from various U.K. airports, the choice is obvious!

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Loire Valley

Charente Maritime - a property finder's view

The Area and Climate
The Charente Maritime boasts the second longest hours of sunshine after the Côte d’Azur and summer here seems to stretch from April to October.

With over 70 beaches to enjoy you will rarely feel crowded and you can almost have the place to yourself out of season.

The local seafood (oysters, mussels, crab and fish) is always fresh and plentiful and there are many good local wines to accompany your meal. Further inland, behind the salt marshes the land becomes green and rolling.

The route to Santiago de Compostela passes through the area and there are many exquisite Romanesque churches along the way. Traditional markets are still held on a regular basis in most towns and the Saturday morning market in Rochefort is not to be missed. For centuries, life here has focused around the waterways, the Boutonne and Charente rivers, which carried regional produce (limestone, salt, cognac, wine) to the coast for onward transportation all over the world. Now the rivers lend themselves to canoeing or pleasure boat trips, fishing and bird watching

Properties in the Poitou Charentes area of France: Charente Maritime, Charente, Deux-Sévres & Vienne

Up to €75,000

ref: FH-23-0083 -

Semi detached
2 bedroomed in town centre

Some work needed with this property.

- NUEIL-SUR-LAYON - 79 - Deux Sévres

8 Kms from
Doué-la-Fontaine

ref: FH-12-0002

1 bedroomed apartment

near the town centre
with possibility of buying the building

Angoulême - Poitou Charente- 16

A 43 m² apartment near the town centre in a quiet area.

ref: FH-23-0184 -

2 bedroomed
Terraced house

in town centre.
Habitable and in good order.

- Thouars - 79 - Deux Sévres

ref: FH-23-0256

3 bedroomed detached quiet house

with large garden

- Argenton Château -
- 20 Kms from Thouars -
- 79 - Deux Sévres -

5 rooms, detached quiet house with large garden - Some work needed for this property -

ref: FH-23-0087 -

Semi detached
2 bedroomed in town centre

Some work needed with this property.

- NUEIL-SUR-LAYON - 79 - Deux Sévres

8 Kms from
Doué-la-Fontaine

ref: FH-23-0257

2 bedroomed house

in town centre

- Thouars - 79 - Deux Sévres -

4 rooms, house in town centre - Some work needed for this property -

ref: FH-23-0258

Semi-detached 1 bedroomed house

for renovation

- 3 Kms from Thouars -
- 79 - Deux Sévres -

3 rooms, semi-detached house - Some work needed for this property -

ref: FH-23-0259

Semi-detached 2 bedroomed renovated house

in a quiet area

- Thouars - 79 - Deux Sévres -

4 rooms, semi-detached house close to all shops -

ref: FH-32-0018

2 bedroomed
Village Cottage -

Small garden. Lovely views
- Faymoreau, Vendée
- 45 Kms. N.E.
of La Rochelle - 85 -

ref: FH-32-0034

2 bedroomed Cottage

with 400 m² garden & conservatory & garage

- Village 8kms from COULONGES-SUR-L'AUTIZE - 79 -

VILLAGE HOUSE with 400 m² garden. 2 bedrooms, large living room, kitchen, scullery, shower room, toilet, conservatory. Garage + Storeroom. Oil fired central heating. In good condition - some windows and shutters replaced in PVC.

ref: FH-12-0003

Old stoned farm with outbuilding

to be renovated

Angoulême North-East - Poitou Charente- 16

In a hamlet close to Confolens, old stoned farm to be renovated & built in the 19^th century on 2000 m² of land (½ acre).

ref: FH-12-0004

2 bedroomed
renovated house

with large convertible attic

Angoulême South-east- Poitou Charente- 16

In a Charente village on the border of Charente/Dordogne with a garden at the back, this property was recently renovated with new plumbing and new electrics on the ground floor.

ref: FH-12-0005

1 bedroomed recently renovated property

with convertible garage

Near L'Isle Jourdain- Vienne- 87

In a village close to the commercial centre of Isle Jourdain, this recently renovated property makes it possible to spend a pleasant retirement or to even settle to build a family.