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A Twelfth Century House - where the first time 'buyer' was a member of the Knights Templar... Wow!

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Not quite Autumn (officially that is) but the Swallows are fewer and those that are still around are beginning to think about the long flight South and the Virginia Creeper is turning red a sure sign that the weather is about to turn. The Maize field that surrounds the 12th Century, La Commanderie at Yvignac is beginning to look as though it should already be harvested… It's honey coloured now, but the Bretons (probably the French everywhere) use it only as animal feed and so it lingers, extending the golden look in the fields until maybe mid October. The crops, here surrounding the house’s own 1,525 square metres garden, alternate each season with Maize, Wheat, Oil Seed Rape… brilliantly yellow at its most vibrant. That’s the one that best probably sets the house off against its surroundings. It’s vibrant and lush. A fully renovated 4 Bedroomed stone house amidst open countryside for 340,000€... Amazing? It is! In a house hunt when the world is your oyster ther

NOW... That's what I Call House Prices!

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http://www.ahouseinnormandy.com/component/ezrealty/ezrealty/28-detached/1605-ahib-sif-00916 Above: Nr Mortain, Lower Normandy, 4 Bedroomed Farmhouse and outbuildings with about 2.5 acres no neighbours. 106,000€ + Notaire's Fees. I have been told by the Ads team at Facebook that sponsored/boosted posts, where the photographs carry text on them, are less successful than no text at all. That's just blown a 35 year career in advertising out of the water... but then 'hey', this is 'new media' where video's of kittens are viewed by millions so, what do I know? Actually I can't even link my iphone, ipad and laptop together successfully, so obviously... not much. But, the way things are shaping up, even though these Brexit jitters have upset the Foreign Currency Exchange rate market the reduction in property prices has created a buyer's market which balances out the cost of buying Brittany and Normandy and moving to or buying a holiday inves