We often help younger people with young families to get properly established in France – even though finding work there can be difficult. One example is a couple in their late 30s, who moved from south-eastern England to the Dordogne, taking their three-year-old toddler and three-week-old baby with them.

Rather than looking for employment in France, they used part of the money they’d made from selling their English home to set up a holiday gite. To help market it, they created a website with a virtual tour of the property. This became hugely successful – so much so that they decided to start an internet design business, developing similar virtual tours for other holiday home owners in France. Now this has taken off very nicely, and the couple have been able to invest the rest of their spare money, rather than having to use it to live on.

Siddalls has advised them on these investments, and helped them understand all the financial aspects of living in France. We’ve minimised their income tax, and managed their growing wealth to help protect it from inheritance tax. They’re now fully settled in the Dordogne, making the most of – and thoroughly enjoying – the money they earn.

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