Forget the Spanish villa and the Tuscan farmhouse ...
Today's discerning buyer is looking just across the Channel for that dream second home. Houses in northern France cost a third of those in southern England - and the Channel tunnel will make holiday and weekend homes there all the more viable. With the British government currently advising on a code of practice for home buyers,
Michael Delahaye goes to France with a family who are buying a little house in another country, and discovers whether we have anything to learn from the French. Producer TONY CHAPMAN Editor COLIN STANBRIDGE
BBC South and East - Elstree
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