If you read pour definition of Notary’s fees and what they are for, you will by know that three types of fees are payable to the French Notaire:

• Professional fees
• Disbursement fees
• And taxes (local and central government)

 Another kind of fees are payable to the Notaire, only if you borrow money against your French property (i.e. you contract a French mortgage). We will cover this in another article.

Let’s discuss the Notary’s Professional Fees.

Whether you buy a new French property or an old one, you’ll pay the same Notary professional fees.

Notary professional fees are established by central government decrees. This means that all Notaires will structure they tariffs the same way all across the country.

Also you may well remember what we wrote previously: the seller must instruct a notaire to sell a house, but the buyer does not need to instruct a his notaire. By law and duty the seller’s notaire should also act on behalf of the buyer.

French word: décret