Breeze is blowing...

Hello everyone and welcome to the Breeze France blog.


After two years of planning, www.breeze-france.com has finally come to life. This being my first blog entry, I'll give you a little run down on who we are and what we're trying to achieve with breeze. Then I'll tell you what I'm going to be doing with this blog.

The idea for Breeze comes from our team at Purchase in France. Based near Toulouse in the southwest, we help clients through the French property buying process. The core team is lead by the lovely Heather (the project-juggling, whip-cracking boss), then there's communications boy Ronald (that's me - pals call me Ronaldo), smooth-talking Gareth (not so smooth in the mornings) and soon to be new mum Lucy (congrats - she's glowing).

Supporting us (and I'll take a second to thank them just now...Thanks!) is design boy Daren of www.pigcom.fr. The site build team at Ideas and Creations in Glasgow (special mention to Don the master programmer). Sarah, the "Let's have wine with lunch" legal genius, and Tom, our "Have you thought about this?" advisor.

We saw a little hole in the market. French property advertisers needed a better way to market their properties to a wider (English-speaking) audience. English-speaking property hunters needed more information and more property choice. Both groups needed language help. Eh, Voila! Breeze was born to help both groups. I'll go into more detail about how we're helping in future blogs.

Location, location, location...
breeze is location focused, just like the experts say all property hunters should be. Our location search options are designed to help people discover properties that match their lifestyle (near schools or sports, the beach, or simply to know that getting a pint of milk isn't going to be a problem). For people searching from abroad this is particularly important. Since they can't just jump in the car to have a look, better location information builds better short lists and weeds out costly time-wasters.

In support of this, I'll be using this blog to talk about the different areas I pass through on my daily travels and I'll be asking for input from readers and pros about places further away. Getting information on major towns or regions is easy on the internet. But is that enough? I want to talk about the suburbs of those towns or perhaps lovely and affordable places that people from abroad haven't discovered yet. For example, Fonsorbes, where I live, just west of Toulouse. It's a great area but would you know to enter the name into a web search? If you don't then you'll miss property for sale here.

I look forward to this blog project and hope you enjoy reading it and are encouraged to ask questions or share knowledge. Tomorrow we travel to the French Property Exhibition at the Olympia in London. www.breeze-france.com is online today (warts and all) and we're going to start talking about it - a lot! I'll share the experiences along the way.

Cheers,
Ronaldo