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Moving to Paris, Anyone know of any good rental apartment search websites???
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Hi everybody!!!! I'm moving to Paris with my boyfriend in a month, and we have yet to find an apartment! Does anybody know of some good real estate websites/ any tips on neighborhoods to live in or stay away from? idealistically we would love to live in the 6th, 7th, or 16th but we are open to new ideas!! thanks for the help!
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- What is your budget?
- How long do you plan to stay?
- Do you have money to pay for real estate agent??
pap.fr is "particuliers à particuliers" i.e. not going through a real estate agency, I personally didn't choose this option because a) I had the money to pay a real estate agent (estimate 1200€ at most) and b) there are quite a lot of scammers and some renters have unreasonable demands (asking to have multiple "garants" (somebody who can pay the rent if you don't) sometimes demanding that they have an income superior to 5x times the rent even though you can afford it yourself.
seloger.com list real estate agencies listings, their price/month is much more reasonable but you have to pay a fee to the real estate agency. Also they are a lot more professional.
Good luck, hit me up if you can't find anything I may be able to help you
Best way to look for apartment in Paris?
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Hello Parisians!
We’ve just moved to Paris for 6 months and looking for a place to rent. Our budget is up to 4000eur monthly and we’re looking for a nice 2 bedroom apartment around 11th-4th districts.
What’s the best place to look? We’re checking housinganywhere and theblueground but there’s not much to choose from and feels bit overpriced.
Is there a better way? Maybe contacting some agencies or smth? We can get all the documentation to prove our income, etc.
Top Comment: You have a really good budget so you can try looking on rental platforms and you will find something you like soon. Because you are staying for 6 months i suggest trying a long term rental platform like Housinganywhere.
finding an apartment in paris
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hello! i saw someone post before on this sub about something similar but i believe she was looking for a roommate. my wife and i are moving to paris for school and we’ve been trying to find something in the 7 near the champs de mars, however those spots are getting picked up so quickly it’s hard to find something in our budget. we’ve looked on lodgis, paris-housing, parisrental and some others. i also checked craigslist but it wasn’t very hopeful. can anyone suggest other places to search and try? we’re trying to book something ASAP. thank you!
Top Comment: airbnb for a month to figure it out while there.
Why is it so hard renting in Paris as a foreigner
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Literally ive tried so hard, ive found multiple apartments in SeLoger and ive tried to contact the sellers trough e Mail and trying to arrange something it gets taken the next day. Im seriously giving up soon and it’s breaking my heart. If anyone studied in Paris from another country how did you do it? Social media makes studying abroad look so easy...
Top Comment: It's hard even for french people. Paris is hell for that.
how long did it take you to find an apartment here??
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going on week 5 now...just looking for a decent 1 br in the 1st-9th :,)))
Top Comment: I found an apartment in 1 week. I can suggest you to do it with agency (you can find english speaking). Why? Our apartment wasn’t been on any website, just an agent share news with other agents about this apartment. My friends had similar case.
Paris is the worst city to look for an apartment
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I’ve been searching for an apartment in Paris for almost a year now, and honestly, it’s insane. I knew it’s tough, but I didn’t expect it to be this impossible. I feel absolutely devastated at this point.
I’ve started tracking the numbers just to make sense of how ridiculous it is:
- Sent an email or made a phone call to visit an apartment: 159 times
- Actually visited: 31 apartments
- Applied to: 11 apartments
- Got selected: 2
Those two apartments were places just to see if we’d get selected. We knew from the start we wouldn’t move there - they were far from ideal, and other 9 apartments we applied to were way better. But we never got selected for those.
I’m not looking for some fancy apartment with a balcony and a view of the Eiffel Tower. My wife and I just want a decent apartment in good condition, a central location, not on a noisy street, that’s it.
But instead, you have to go through the apartments with:
- Crooked walls
- Weird layouts where you literally have to walk sideways to reach the toilet
- Ceilings so low that if I stand on my tiptoes, my head touches them
- Moisture issues
- Apartments where previous tenant smoked so much that walls turned yellow
- Bedrooms so tiny where a 160cm bed doesn’t fit
- No space for a dishwasher in the kitchen
The worst part is that the budget is not the issue here. We’re looking for an unfurnished 2/3 room apartment, at least 55m2, and we can go up to €2500/month, which is quite generous for this market. The real problem is that the number of apartments on the market is incredibly low, and because rent in Paris is capped per m2, increasing your budget just gets you more space, not necessarily better quality.
Meanwhile, I’m slowly losing my mind in my current place. I have an extremely popular restaurant downstairs that keeps its terrace open until 2 AM, so sleeping on Friday night is a joke. Also, after four years in Paris, we’ve accumulated enough stuff that our current studio apartment does not fit everything, we just need more space.
On paper, I think we’re quite solid candidates - I have a stable CDI, my wife is a freelancer in marketing, and we earn over €7000/month together. I guess the only thing that makes our dossier worse is that we’re non-EU foreigners without French passports (but with valid visas and stuff). That’s not something I can change overnight.
I’m using all the aggregator apps, I get notified the second a new listing drops, I apply within minutes, my dossier is validated with DossierFacile, and I have a garant with GarantMe. Nothing really helps.
I was even considering paying for an agency that specializes in apartment searches and negotiates with landlords to get your profile selected. But I worry that these guys will just push us toward an apartment that isn’t actually great, just so they can close a deal and collect their fee. Plus, I find it ridiculous to pay agency fees twice - once to the agency managing the apartment and another to the one just looking for an apartment.
I really don’t know what to do at this point. Has anyone else gone through this? How did you manage to finally find a place that you like and enjoy living?
Top Comment: Space for a dishwasher in the kitchen. The hubris.
What should I know about buying an apartment in Paris, France?
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My partner (french citizen) and I (us citizen) are looking to buy an apartment in Paris (probably ~ $2m). We live in the US in VHCOL area and plan to stay living here so would only be using this a few weeks or a month out of the year. I realize it doesn't make economic sense, would be much cheaper to rent, airbnb, or hotel, when we go back but this is really an emotionally driven purchase for my partner. I've fought this battle for a bit and have now lost, so we're buying.
If we're only using it for a few weeks a year, I would let friends and family use it, and maybe rent it out (unclear what airbnb or rental laws are though). I'd like this to be a place we could move and live in down the line though.
What should I know about buying an apartment abroad? I figure my partner can access better mortgage rates in france than me here via french banks.
For anyone that has done this, please let me know any advice you'd give us on purchasing apartment in France with one foreigner, one local, or anything you'd wish you'd know at the beginning of the process.
Top Comment: I get it. We've spent a lot of time in Paris over the decades. Mostly hotels and sometimes apartments. My wife loves just getting up early and picking up something from the bakery. Walking through the neighborhood in the evening, finding the 'local' restaurant. It's a different feel than a hotel and it's different when it's your place. And if either of us was French (I'm EU as well as US), it would even be more compelling. But slow down. Rent a place for a full year. A 3BR near the Louvre can be rented for a year for around $6,000/mo. Take a look at: https://bit.ly/parisapt01 For a year or two, it will always be there and only for you. Simple. And you can see how much you will really use it and see what exactly you want in a neighborhood and in an apartment. A full year rental gets your partner immediate satisfaction. You both will have the time on the ground and no urgency ... so you can slow buy. A better price and a better fit is likely. And I strongly support the position of having your partner take the lead on a purchase when ever that's the path. Since the apartment purchase is a goal, strong desire, 'need' of your partner, then they should take the lead. It's the best way to be sure this person get's exactly what they want and not what you feel they want. Mis communications are really hard and expensive to fix after the deal is closed. And it is work, no reason your partner can't take the lead on something primarily for them. It will make for a happier outcome and for a better understanding from your partner on tradeoffs. Good luck on what ever you do.
How to find an apartment in Paris
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I just moved to Paris from Canada on the vacances-travail visa. I’m having a hard time finding an apartment. I don’t have a French job because I’m keeping my Canadian remote role. But the agents don’t want to consider me even though I have a job and savings. I don’t want to stay in airbnbs. I want an apartment I can make my own. Also the scams on those real estate websites are crazy. Does anyone have thoughts on to find a decent apartment as a foreigner without a CDI?
EDIT: I found an apartment next to the Seine, close to Bercy in the 13th. It's a studio so smaller than I wanted. However, the location is fantastic. I'm pleased.
Top Comment: Even french people with CDI are having many issues renting in Paris. The prices are high and the offer is not big. The requirements needed to accept your file are countless. Agencies and landlords collect so many files and choose the strongest one. You can try directly with landlords without real state agencies. There are so many apps : Bien ici, Leboncoin, PAP, Jinka, SeLoger. Be sure to select only "Particuliers". I got an apartment without CDI (I just finished my studies at that time) but I paid the landlord 5 months in advance and I had a "garant" who had a CDI. This is not legal but it worked for me. Try to consider "Proche banlieue", maybe you can have an apart more easily. You have to be one of the first to contact the landlords. This can increase your chance to be selected. Good luck.
How do people afford apartments in Paris?
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I am from the USA and moving to Paris. I work in software development and was making $120,000 USD in Philadelphia and could easily afford rent and a house. My after tax takehome was around $7,000 and my rent was around $1,800 for a really big and nice place.
In Paris my same job has about 50% less salary and I was offered €60,000. Looking at taxes and general numbers, I think my take home will be around €3,000 a month. I read that a lot of apartment landlords won’t rent to someone spending over 30% of their takehome so in my case around €1,000.
Every apartment I’ve looked at that isn’t the size of a closet (approximately 40sqm) is around €1,200-1,500 and these are NOT fancy apartments!
Is this normal? How do people afford decent lifestyles here?
Update: thanks for all the helpful replies. I’ve since found a nice 45sq meter furnished apartment in Boulogne so I’m happy with that.
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It's normal. Not normal-"we like it how it is", but normal-"we don't have a choice". We could say a lot of things about the roots of this problem.
When you live in Paris, unless you're very rich, you accept that your house will be a closet and you'll spend as much time as possible outside.
Paris is the worst place ever to look for an apartment
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I LOVE EVERYTHING about Paris. The people, the language, the food, etc. I don’t miss America one bit however, I have never struggled finding a place to stay in my whole life.
I came here with my dog and gave myself 2 weeks to find a place and guess what tomorrow morning I’m going to have to stay in a hotel because no one ever freaking answers any ADs here.
It’s so frustrating I have money like why don’t you want it?! I request like 20x and nothing. I have several landlords agree to something only to take it back and ask for more money for a 23m2 studio. Or I never hear from them again while in the process of finalizing my application. The first concrete location I found was a scam.
I’m a small women dragging a bunch of stuff and my dog around ughhh. I’ve resorted to booking a hotel for 2grand to see if in one more week I can even find anything.
Again, I love Paris and am going to school here which is why I’m even here but I think I may have to switch to online school and go back home to America. It’s just not happening here for me and I’m wasting money hopping from Airbnb to Airbnb.
I’ve tried locservice, Airbnb, seloger, pap.fr, leboncoin, agencies, etc it all sucks. I can’t find anything nor receive a response. I’m so sick of looking.
I just want a T2 ( or T1 if lofted) for €1700 in arrondissement 1-11. That’s not a closet. You’d think it’d be easy but I’ve found literally nothing.
This may get deleted but I just exhausted all options and wanted to vent. Probably the complete wrong place. Anyway that’s all.
Edit: I SINCERELY APPRECIATE EVERYONE’S ADVICE AND HELP. Having more resources and new information on places outside of Paris is beyond helpful already. Thank you so much!!
Edit: I am reading every post and using every resource possible! I sincerely appreciate the advice!!! I’ll keep you wonderful people updated!! Thank you for the reward!!
Top Comment: Mmmmh the real issue in paris is the demand vs the offer. So your profile has to be bullet-proof financially (you or your caution (garant in french) have to earn 3 time the price of the appartment, so here 5100€ per month). If not, it's really hard to find even more where you are looking. I currently live in a t2 of 45 square meter in the 9th/2nd for which i pay around 1500€ (and it's quite expensive) so you have the good budget. But once the announce is posted you have to be quick (i.e If you wait more than a day, it's already over). If you respect this (and you have the financial justifications) you should find quickly (i have rent 3 appartment in paris, each time it tooks me a little more than 1 week between the first mail and the final signature)