Property Management on the French Riviera

Real estate management is the activity of maintaining and improving the condition of the property and its utilities, successfully resolving issues in the interest of the owner.

The main objectives of property management: the excellent functioning of the object, reducing maintenance costs and increasing profits from its use.

With 17 years of experience in the French real estate market, ServiceAzur has built a dedicated property management team with Russian-speaking professionals to better meet your needs once you buy.

The main objectives of property management: to maintain the successful functioning of the house and ensure the comfort of the owner.

The desire of every owner is to reduce maintenance costs and to preserve and improve the condition of real estate. The path to achieving the above objectives consists of a series of stages in the organization of economic management, which is a constant analysis and improvement of the structure of income and expenses directly related to the use and maintenance of real estate.

The advantage of ServiceAzur’s professional approach to property management in France is that the work is carried out in a comprehensive and continuous manner, allowing you to minimize costs and increase profits by using the property in a truly efficient and profitable way!

Our professional approach includes comprehensive administrative consulting: legal, accounting, office and concierge services. We prepare annual financial statements and help individuals and businesses fill out tax returns.

The legal part of the management contract includes annual assistance with tax returns and taxes such as:

• Taxe Foncière — tax on ownership.
• Impôt sur revenu — tax on income.
• Taxe d’Habitation — tax on residence.
• IFI — tax on immovable property.
• Taxe 3%.
• Déclaration 2072.

For those who want to optimize their taxation, we help them correctly allocate and combine their real estate rights, mainly through the registration of a civil society for real estate (SCI — Société Civile Immobilierère).

In turn, the SCI requires an annual financial statement. The owner is provided with a table with expenditures by groups formed during the operation of the real estate and periods for easy control of funds.

As a rule, we make pre-planned and coordinated visits with the owner to regularly check the condition of the property, diagnose utilities and observe safety measures. We follow the work of the staff and monitor the performance of the work (gardener, pool specialist, cleaners, other services), take pictures and send clients a report on the condition of their property.

By keeping in constant contact with utilities and contractors, we keep them «up to date» so that they continue to meet their obligations.

Administrative (technical) management is the whole complex of works aimed at maintaining the state of both the object itself and all communications that ensure its full functional state.

The office part is very labor-intensive, for example, we maintain regular communication between the various instances and subjects of the process, such as:

• utility structures (electricity, gas, water, sewage); 
• communication services (telephone, internet, television);
• garden and pool maintenance staff, maids, drivers; 
• security services (alarm, video surveillance, security); 
• insurance instances (real estate, transportation, health);
• construction organizations (architects, designers, geometers).

Our department constantly monitors the correspondence, deals with the translation of documents, the drawing up of contracts, approving and paying invoices, etc. All received documents are studied, classified and archived. Each item worked out becomes a subject of reporting to the owner.

As a new property owner in France, the first thing you need to do is to insure your property, which will give you peace of mind and protect your property from unexpected damage.

The insurance market in France is one of the most diverse in the European Union and often for non-resident owners, choosing an insurance company becomes a difficult process. Moreover, it is important that the contract with the insurance company is clear and understandable for the insured person. The contract should also clearly state the guarantee clauses, such as the deductible amount, general conditions and terms for payment of damages.

That is why our management team, working with the most reliable and trusted partners, will be able to help you choose the right insurance policy for you with the most optimal conditions.

And if necessary (in the event of an insured event), we will accompany you and help you declare the accident to the insurance company in order to receive quick and effective compensation for damage.

We know how important the security of your property is. This issue becomes especially relevant for those who have real estate on the French Riviera as a summer residence.

We always advise our clients to secure their property for their complete comfort. That’s why our security partners offer the most advanced and most reliable security alarm solutions, tailored to the individual needs of each client.

If your property is in our management, you can fully rely on the professionalism of our staff. Our managers carry out control visits, during which the general condition of the residence is checked, the number of such visits depends on the formula you have chosen.

Our concierge services are your reliable personal assistant!

In addition to servicing the property itself, we try to make the life of our owners on the Cote d’Azur as comfortable as possible and contribute to this as much as possible.

Searching for any information, for example, about the rental of transport (yacht, helicopter, car) or accommodation, medical services, shopping tours, transfers, excursions, booking restaurants, hotels, various tickets, with the help of a professional, will provide you with an efficient and reliable result.