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The 2018 list "The World's 50 Best Restaurants" has been released, and number 3 is the "Mirazur" just up the road in Menton! Prices range from €80-210 for 4-11 courses.
Surprisingly, it's not even one of the nearly two dozen Michelin star restaurants in and around the Nice area.
1-50 The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants
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After the most expensive house and yacht, the local paper has a nice video of possibly the most expensive apartment for sale. A penthouse next door in Monaco, it is for sale at €300m. It is the top four floors, is 2,000m² with 1,500m² of terraces, has both indoor and outdoor swimming pools, gym, home cinema, sauna and steam rooms, four kitchens, and plenty of bedrooms and bathrooms. If you know anybody that may be interesting in buying, please put them in contact with me...
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C'est un produit unique. Un lieu de prestige comme on en a rarement conçu.3.500m² dont 1.500m² d'extérieurs, sur un territoire où l'espace est une denrée rarissime, c'est une folie. Une exceptio...
4 in 10 French people would like to buy a holiday home, a recent survey has found. Around 13% already own one, with 3/4 having bought and 1/4 inheriting. 40% of the holiday homes are on the sea front, 26% in the countryside and 17% in a city. Presumably Nice counts in both first and last categories.
More young people are looking to buy, 55% of 25-34 year olds versus 20% of 65+ year olds. Of course this is partly because many older residents already have one, 19%, as opposed to 7% of 25-34 year olds.
Where are buyers looking to buy now? 60% of the buyers are looking toward the coast. This means a strong domestic demand which keeps pressure on prices for owners, but more competition for foreign buyers looking for their dream home here.
After the most expensive house in the world, how about the most expensive yacht in the world? Currently at Juan-les-Pins, but often seen at Nice, the Eclipse is the world's second largest private yacht at 162.5m long and cost €900m. It has 24 bedrooms, two swimming pools, a cinema, nightclub, and an indoor garden. For getting on and off, it does not just have the usual motor launches, it also has two helicopter pads and a submarine that can be launched from underneath the boat.
And if you are not a friend of Mr Abramovich? You can rent it for €175,000 per night. It may sound a lot but it has 78 staff and costs €60m per year to maintain. Or you can just take a look at the handful of photos in today's local paper below.
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4. Un habitué de la Côte d'AzurLe yacht a l'habitude de devenir un refuge pour les célébrités du monde entier tous les ans au festival de Cannes. Il s'est déjà installé à Golfe-Juan et dans l...
The local paper is reporting that "Les Cèdres" is now for sale on Cap Ferrat, though it's a little late as it went on sale late last year. The sale price is still €350 million and is billed as "the most expensive house in the world". Initially reports were that it would go on for €1bn but this proved to be untrue. It will not be the most expensive sale, that went to the "Villa Léopolda" 10 years ago in 2008 which went for €500m. The sale failed to complete and the Russian buyer lost his €35m deposit, which the Monaco-based owner donated to charity.
Please get in contact if interested, sensible offers only please. Below is a link to a Forbes article from last October which shows some shots of the interior and exterior of the mansion.
Look Inside the Most Expensive House on Earth
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An exclusive tour of Villa Les Cèdres, an 187-year-old mansion along the coast of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
Phillip Temple - Real Estate in Nice added 2 new photos.
The new Place St Francois is now finished. Try looking at the new square for a minute and then remember how the old one used to look... That's how natural it feels.
The Mayor has unveiled the first work of art along the new tram line being finished, one of many that will be dotted along the line, and it's a giant 5.76 metre tall ice cream! What else for a beach-front tram line.
La première oeuvre sur le parcours de la ligne 2 du tram a été inaugurée
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Hier, c’est près de la station Ferber que la première réalisation a été présentée: Fruitée. Du nom de ce cornet de glace multicolore, haut de 5,76 mètres, "réalisé à partir de moules en ...
The phenomenon of home swapping continues to grow in France, with now over 100,000 French people registered on home swapping sites
The French Riviera is the 5th most popular spot in France to go stay. Leading the Cote d'Azur is Nice, with 1,900 homes available and 7,100 evenings spent in them last year. Also popular were Menton and Cannes, the latter attracting mostly American and Brazilian guests.
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Vivre comme un local dans le confort d'une maison et en faisant des économies, c'est l'une des pratiques les plus prisées du moment par les Français pour leurs vacances.Cette tendance a augmenté d...
From 2025, Nice will ONLY be running electric buses. Of course this is good from an environmental viewpoint, but it also eliminates a significant contributor to sound pollution.
Couple this with the new East-West tram line eliminating numerous bus routes, and a lot of previously 'noisy' apartments start to look a lot more attractive. Of course seven years sounds like a long time, but Nice tends to get things done sooner rather than later. We will be keeping an eye on this and see how quickly it develops.
D'ici à 2025, il n'y aura plus que des bus électriques sur le réseau Lignes d'Azur
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Au cours de la présentation de la modernisation du réseau, ce lundi en mairie, Christian Estrosi, président de la Métropole, a annoncé le passage progressif à l'électrique.Première échéance:...
In such a huge project, a hiccup had to occur eventually. Upon launch at the end of the month, 30th June, trams along the Promenade des Anglais will only run every 20 minutes as the supplier Alstom will only be able to deliver two thirds of the trams ordered. Hopefully this will be corrected soon.
Seulement trois trams par heure au lancement de la ligne 2 à cause d'un cafouillage du constructeur?
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Mais cette fréquence risque fort de ne pas être tenue… Du moins au début.Livraison avant la rentrée?Selon des techniciens qui s'expriment sous couvert d'anonymat, "il devrait y avoir un tramway ...
Nice Airport is going to get a face-lift and an extension. The departures lounge of Terminal 1 is going to be increased by 1,000sqm, and 6 of the walk-ways to the airplane will be replaced and 2 more added. The plan is to give a major bump to capacity. The walk-ways will be replaced by next Spring, and all the works completed by April 2021.
Le terminal 1 de l'aéroport de Nice-Côte d'Azur va être lifté et agrandi
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Un appel d’offres passé il y a quelques jours par la Société aéroports de la Côte d’Azur évoque notamment l’exrtension de la salle d’embarquement, et le remplacement de plusieurs passere...
The latest on the new tram line is that it is going launched on time even if not completely finished. The first section between the Prefecture to the north of the airport, and Magnan half way down the Promenade, will open on the 30th of June. However at the tram stops, the benches, ticket machines and dustbins may be installed late. This is due to a last-minute design change.
An extra modification needed is the grass laid down at great expense along the tram lines is being chewed up by cars and motorbikes deliberately and illegally driving over it. Concrete posts will be installed all the way down the roads to prevent this.
The airport section will link up December this year. In the mean time, if you want to catch the tram from the airport you will need to walk to the "Grand Arenas" stop over the road.
Ligne 2 du tramway de Nice: ce qu'il reste à faire avant l'inauguration du 30 juin
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Mais il faudra attendre encore un peu pour voir des bancs, distributeurs de tickets, et plus de poubelles sur le parcours. Tout cela doit arriver avant le 30 juin.En revanche, la patience sera de mise...
The local paper has a front page spread decrying a national monument falling to pieces. The item in question is the grand building at the end of the Cours Saleya, famous for being the home of Matisse where he painted many of his greatest works.
The timing of this news article is very interesting. The whole building currently has one single owner. The 1st floor has just come up for sale. Two apartments, one 91m² facing the Cours Saleya for €995,000 and the second 181m² for €1,290,000 behind it. We have them for sale if you are interested but they are huge renovation projects.
The Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, is on a driven mission to save the heritage of Nice. He is also a man of action. He kicked the trade union CGT out of the Palais Communal in Place St Francois, and is turning into a history of Nice museum. It used to be the original Town Hall back in the 16th century and became the home of the stock market the end of the 19th century. The rubbish depot next door is being restored into its original Franciscan monastery with courtyard. When the property developer owner of "La Luna" villa at 265 Promenade des Anglais allowed it to sit and decay, the mayor forced the sale to the government and turned it into a meeting centre for cultural groups.
I am speculating that the journalist might have been encouraged by Mr Estrosi to write the article to gauge public support for rescuing the building. I suspect if one of my clients has an offer accepted on one of the apartments mentioned above, the government's right of preemption might not get its usual rubber stamp straight away. If I am right, it will be great to see this magnificent building restored to its pride of place. Even at the cost of a healthy commission cheque.
L'immeuble niçois où a vécu Matisse tombe en ruine sur le célèbre cours Saleya
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Le fronton est éteint, l'interphone sans âge et les angelots s'effritent. Le palais Caïs de Pierlas (1, place Charles-Félix) n'en finit pas de sombrer.Loin, très loin, de l'époque où Matisse to...
Good news for those living in the Carre d'Or and Musiciens Quarter near Boulevard Gambetta - the fruit and veg market is going to get a facelift! "What fruit and veg market?", I hear you say.
Unlike the bustling fruit and veg market bursting with local produce on the Cours Saleya, in the Old Town, and at the Liberation Square north of the train station, the market on the corner of Boulevard Gambetta and Rue de la Buffa, built in 1925, has fallen into decay. Only 7 of the 95 stalls are regularly open for business. You will have walked past it, dark and uninviting, and turned left instead into the Casino supermarket.
The property has now been bought out of bankruptcy by the "Carnivor" group with a mission to bring it back to life. I will post more detailed plans for their renovation when it comes out.
La cité de la Buffa à Nice a enfin trouvé un repreneur
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La cité marchande de la Buffa reprise par un groupe qui lui redonnerait enfin vie, après des années de traversée du désert et de rebondissements sans suite? Ce scénario semble probable avec une ...
Prince Charles popped by on Monday, raising the profile of Nice a little this week. The local paper has a video of him walking down the Cours Saleya with the Mayor, Christian Estrosi. If he walked past our office then I didn't see him.
VIDÉO. Le prince Charles et Camilla prennent un bain de foule dans le Vieux-Nice
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Charles et Camilla se sont offert, ce mercredi matin, une balade dans les venelles du Vieux-Nice.Ils ne sont pas passés inaperçus et leur escapade au marché aux fleurs s'est transformé en ruée au...
With Nice west getting the new tram line and ambitious business district, and north getting developed between the Gare du Sud and the transformation of the old football stadium into parks and housing, things have been quiet on the eastern front. No longer! The University district to the east called Vauban is about to get a huge new complex including a 10-screen cinema with nearly 2,000 seats. Located just behind the Nice Riquier train station and not far from the Port area. The complex is modestly titled the "Mégarama".
Ça se précise pour l'installation d'un nouveau cinéma multiplexe à Nice
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Le projet de multiplexe à Saint-Jean-d'Angély (Nice-Est) avance.La Commission départementale d'aménagement cinématographique, qui s'est réunie jeudi en préfecture, a rendu un avis favorable au ...
A number of clients are commenting that they are watching the new tram line running trams beside them as they take the bus from the airport. They are still only test runs! The new line will open in 2 months from now, between the airport and Magnan (half way down the Promenade des Anglais).
Vidéo. Le tramway poursuit ses essais aux Moulins
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Ce ne sont d'ailleurs pas seulement les rails et les rames qui sont actuellement testés, depuis début mars, mais toute l'infrastructure de la plate-forme, sécurité, signalisation et réseaux élec...
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Works are progressing well in Place St Francois, in the Old Town. These photos give you an idea of what it will eventually look like. Though works are not the crazy pace of the new tram line, it looks like it will be finished in May as expected.
The latest article in Capital magazine on where to invest in Nice has some pretty unrealistic advice.
If you go to the bottom of the article, it claims that buying in the Old Town of Nice can give 12% yield if you rent via AirBnb.
They say that the average nightly price in the Old Town is €70. Therefore if you buy a 40m² apartment for €130,000, rent it for 220 nights a year (which is reasonable), then you get that yield.
Unfortunately you will have to build a time machine to go back and buy a decent apartment for that price. For something that makes over €15,000 you will need to spend around €200,000. Your yield should be around 8-9%. Of course unless you want to be running around cleaning bathrooms and waiting for hours to let in guests then you will need a management company which brings that yield down to just below 6%.
Buying a rental property in Nice is one of the safest investments you can make. You will never get a slump here. Even one of Europe's worst terrorist attacks right here on our beach front did not make a dent. Judging from the ever increasing tourist figures, it is just going to get better and better. However, as a rule, yield is proportional to risk. You are unlikely to get the 10-15% net yields that some country's "hot-spot" brochures claim.
If you buy correctly you will get a good return, both in revenue and in capital appreciation, but if you want to "get rich quick" then you may be better off looking elsewhere.
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Les rendements flirtent parfois avec les 12% dans la ville méditerranéenne. Découvrez la cote immobilière et nos conseils selon votre profil., Pas de ralentissement en vue à Nice, où le délai d...
The new tram line is still just over 1.5 years from completion but they are already studying the feasibility of another tram line from Nice all the way to Cagnes sur Mer. Not only is the mayor in favour but also his political rivals, giving the scheme some political footing. Unsurprisingly the mayor of Cagnes sur Mer is particularly enthusiastic. Work has been penciled in to start 2030 should the study be favourable.
Le tramway bientôt jusqu'à Saint-Laurent-du-Var et Cagnes-sur-Mer?
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Le tramway franchissant le Var? Ce n'est pas pour demain, mais c'est bien dans les cartons de la Métropole.Des études de faisabilité relatives à l'extension de la ligne 2 du tramway vers l'Ouest o...
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