Acquisition mandate: In addition to our legal services, we offer a property search mandate for individuals investing in France.
A comprehensive legal and transactional service
Entrust us with your property search mandate: you can appoint one of our lawyers to participate in your search and select, based on your criteria, the ideal property from the entire market. Secure your search with a neutral and independent perspective.
We can provide you with a selection of properties that align with your needs. We conduct research across the entire French market through our clientele, networks of lawyer agents, notaries, accountants, and dedicated real estate search tools.
Targeted property visits: FRELA can accompany you on property visits, providing you with our advice and expertise.
Negotiation for the best price: FRELA assists you in negotiating the purchase price.
Dedicated lawyer for your mandate: A lawyer specializing in property acquisitions will be dedicated to your project.
Support with legal, administrative, financial, and tax issues until the completion of the transaction: FRELA accompanies you to optimize your project, from verifying compliance to the signing of all documents, all the way to the final deed at the notary’s office or within our firm.
Experienced partners: FRELA connects you with all relevant service providers (notaries, banks, investment banks, relocation agencies).
Our intermediation solutions to optimize and secure acquisition mandates for individuals investing in France
Search mandate
Benefit from a selection of off-market real estate properties based on your requirements from our network.
Entrust us with a search mandate: we will accompany you in your search and provide you with a selection of properties that meet your needs.
- Targeted visits
- Negotiation for the best price
- A dedicated lawyer for your mission
- Support for legal, administrative, financial, and tax issues until the keys are handed over
- Selected partners
Simple negotiation mandate
Entrust us with the negotiation of your property.
Price negotiation: FRELA negotiates the purchase price on your behalf, in your best interest. Whether the project is brought by FRELA’s networks or by you, we conduct the negotiation by your side.
The mandate lawyers in real estate transactions at FRELA bring strength to the negotiation by basing our assessments and arguments on the production of property audit reports and our real estate expertise and evaluation tools (if necessary, in collaboration with a land expert).
Access to off-market real estate
Confidential Mandate for Property Search: In addition to our legal services, you can entrust us with a confidential mandate for a representative attorney to search for the appropriate property on the French market based on your criteria, without systematically disclosing your identity.
Benefit from our network of mandate attorneys. The Association of Mandate Attorney in Real Estate Transactions is the main association of mandate attorneys in France. Through the association, we have access to “off-market” real estate (companies, real estate investment companies, or individuals) from our fellow representative attorney throughout France, allowing us to offer you properties that you won’t find elsewhere.
Legal Advice and Intermediation
“Get the support of a bilingual business attorney specialized in acquisitions to optimize and secure your acquisitions in France.”
Lawyers to advise and represent you
Expertise for the acquisition of a residential property or a commercial asset (such as a castle, vineyard, warehouse, campground, restaurant, factory, business…)
Secure your real estate purchase in France by understanding your rights and your legal and tax opportunities
A team of lawyers and the strength of a network of lawyer-mandates in real estate transactions.
8 reasons to mandate FRELA to conduct your real estate search in France
Why choose FRELA’s lawyers and real estate transaction agents?
FRELA understands your real estate search and successfully carries out negotiations related to the contract.
FRELA intervenes on behalf of its clients at all stages of the acquisition contract.
FRELA provides advice and handles administrative, fiscal, and legal documents, drafts and reviews deeds, creates statutes, and conducts legal audits
FRELA advises you on all legal and tax aspects of your project.
We verify the accuracy and compliance of contracts and administrative documents to ensure that you are in compliance with the authorities.
Founded by Benoit Lafourcade, a business and acquisitions lawyer, and founding partner of DELCADE Avocats & Solicitors, FRELA relies on a network of more than 20 lawyers and 4 agencies in France.
We enable you to avoid pitfalls, reduce the likelihood of disputes, understand tax and legal constraints, and take into account your obligations
Save time
Benefit from the network and expertise of the real estate lawyers FRELA.
Receive a selection of targeted properties that align with your buying project. *(1.5M)
Take advantage of our support in administrative processes and our coordination with agencies and notaries. Entrust us with the mandate to initiate your initial negotiations. Access the off-market properties.
Optimise your transactions
Find the right price: With our open data tools providing recent transaction values for similar properties in the area.
Entrust us with the mandate to negotiate on your behalf.
Optimize taxes, taxation, and charges for your real estate project.
Create the right financial structures, such as REIT (real estate investment trust), succession planning, and tax planning.
Understand and optimize your Urban Development Plan (PLU), rents, fees, and regulatory and social obligations.
Our support for the acquisition of businesses or real estate properties
Support prior to making an offer to purchase a real estate property or a business.
FRELA offers a property search mandate in France, combined with our legal and tax advisory services. We select properties from our network of attorney agents.
We will advise you on structuring your acquisition in France.
We address your initial tax or legal questions, or concerns regarding the appropriate structuring.
We coordinate with professionals such as notaries, agencies, experts, etc.
The points of support during the offer to purchase a property or business
Review and participation in the preparation of the offer.
We provide you with our expertise and analysis to help you avoid pitfalls and understand your tax, legal, and regulatory obligations.
Access to our open data: Receive a study of sales of similar properties in the geographic area of your acquisition (upon request, fees apply).
Get the right price by accessing data from our open data. Receive a study of sales for similar properties in the geographical area of your acquisition.
Benoit Lafourcade, co-founding partner of DELCADE: find us in the rankings.
Types of properties
Residential real estate
FRELA considers your needs in order to provide advice for your residential real estate transactions. We ensure legal security and support you in finding your real estate.
Commercial real estate
Secure your acquisitions (for professionals and businesses) with the services of lawyers and transaction agents. We provide legal security and assist you in finding professional real estate and businesss
Are you looking to purchase a commercial or real estate property in France? Secure your transaction with a unique intermediary solution coupled with legal and tax services?
Please fill out the contact form, and a lawyer specializing in transactions will get in touch with you as soon as possible.
