Buy in the mountains is a great way to combine pleasure and profitability, whether you're a fan of skiing or in search of fresh air. high altitude and smaller family-oriented resort villages offer various opportunities, allowing investors to benefit from tax cuts. Here are some well-marked trails not to cross an avalanche concerns.
Where to invest?
The Alps, highs queens
Cocorico ! Stars incon Test -37/"> Test ed the mountain to global fame, the French Alps offer one of the largest and most beautiful ski areas in the world. The most famous resorts - for their tracks and entertainment - (Courchevel, Meribel, Val d'Isere, Chamonix, Megève ...) have very high price per square meter, from 8 000 to 20 000 euros per square meter, and it is the rare land. But others also renowned resorts such as Les Menuires, La Plagne, Tignes, Val Thorens, Avoriaz, offer advantage of opportunities, especially if one chooses to redevelop the existing buildings, and the prices are reasonable: from 4 000 and 7000 euros per square meter. Investing in Savoie and Haute-Savoie, is mainly engage in familiar territory, for certain quality of goods. The right option, therefore, to minimize the risk ... Less known, family charm stations at lower elevations offer a number of properties for sale more important and value much more interesting. Resorts like Les Rousses, Samoëns, Morzine, Les Houches and Les Contamines are thus likely to interest a family clientele.
The Pyrenees, not a second choice
stations of the Pyrenees also have good prospects for investors and registered a significant growth in recent years. However, it should ensure that the snow level of the station is large enough, at Christmas and in the spring especially, to ensure a good working seasonal rentals. The problem is, however, lower in the most important stations such as Font-Romeu-Luchon Superbagnères or Saint-Lary-Soulan.
Vosges and Auvergne for family
It can also be worth buying in the Vosges and Massif Central, building in particular on the assets that are susceptible to these resorts in summer.Many of them are well located near lakes and hot springs. If the investment in these areas is not commensurate with the high mountain resorts, the cost of management and maintenance, however, is accessible to the greatest number.
Our advice: Invest in the most upmarket resorts can be easily profitable for the same price of the locations, but also services (babysitting, ski, accessibility ...) surrounding the well. Focus on nearby slopes is often larger axis.
What profitability?
How reported investment in mountain and how long it it becomes profitable? When buying a home located in a winter sports resort, it is indeed to answer a set of questions to determine if the property has real potential gain: ensure price rental, of site traffic in the year and in season. Please do not forget that the apartment, if it is empty for a long time, require maintenance, which have also a price.
What personal activity?
If you plan to use the apartment-or cottage personally, it is for example how many weeks a year you will occupy places in the family, and for what periods. The most profitable weeks of school are those periods, Christmas, February, and to a lesser extent Easter, be aware that you will need to choose between fun and profitable if you have children. But the mountain rental is not carried out full time and it is usually difficult to rent his property more than a month and a half in winter and three weeks-a month in summer period. It is therefore to determine quickly how week rental fees will be covered by rents.
Opting for a management body
If you choose to entrust your apartment in a management body, you will also determine the amount of costs.After the calculation, it will still earn the amount to taxes and maintenance costs, in order to know the ultimate return on your investment.
Our advice: Do not try to achieve a pure rental investment and make the most of your property for your own holiday. Keep in mind that buying exclusive optical placement does not necessarily guarantee high profitability.
What are the ingredients of success?
Put the odds on his side when making an investment notes with a subtle alchemy. Geographical area, station, location, age and size of the property, luxury or amenities must indeed be weighed and balanced to be satisfied at any level.
Forget the small areas
An investor should know as well as small areas typical of the 70 are no longer in vogue today, and therefore much less desirable. The clientele, French as a foreign, turns in fact benefit to more spacious locations to go on vacation with family or friends. Side benefits, property that are rented at present have also standardized on the rise and tenants eyeing more towards residences with swimming pool, sauna and fitness area. Still, the demand for small areas continues with some people, such as students or young couples, and it is possible to find a rental interest in playing on the exhibition, functionality or price. ..
But not only skiing
It is also worth knowing if you bet on the summer side or if you intend for your well to winter use only. The disadvantage of the relatively low altitude of some stations can become a competitive advantage through the use of mixed winter / summer. Keep in mind also that the stations that appeal to today are not those merely a program "ski", but especially those offering a whole range of activities to please the whole family. Finally, transport accessibility may also be a factor, a station located near a train station is a definite plus.
Our advice: Play green fiber will only put checkers on your side. Energy efficient buildings and located near shuttle or on the tracks will always be well seen.