About Fractional Ownership in Paris
Unique Luxury Properties in Paris, at a fraction of the cost
Market prices for great apartments in the most coveted neighborhoods in Paris reaching top dollar, especially with the continued strength of the euro. As such, the cost of a luxury property with sound investment financials is beyond the reach of many vacation home buyers.
But a well-chosen fractional property can afford you many of the benefits of owning a Paris pied-à-terre at only a fraction of the cost of sole ownership. The right fractional ownership property in Paris offers the luxury amenities and services that appeal to Paris lovers, investors and travelers, and is opening the door to smart property ownership in Paris like never before.
Fractional ownership properties in Paris offer luxury, quality and a sound investment :
- Investment Quality: We buy smart, carefully selecting properties in premium locations and with standout features, intelligent floor plans, superior craftsmanship and elegant design that make them enjoy the best appreciation potential on the market.
- Luxury design and amenities: From the layout of the apartment to the cutlery on the table, every detail of our properties is designed to assure maximum comfort and luxurious style. Air-conditioning, en-suite master baths, top-end appliances and quality craftsmanship all under the direction of a top designer: it's what you would do for yourself, and better.
- Property Management and Concierge Services: We ensure that both your investment and your vacations are worry-free by taking care of all aspects of property management and administration. This includes handling all the administrative, legal and financial aspects of owning and renting the property, and providing you with a full accounting of your investment and the money earned and spent. What’s more, you are pampered you with a comprehensive suite of concierge services to assure that your vacations are memorable, meaningful, and totally trouble-free.
Beyond these features, there are two distinct models of fractional ownership in Paris.
Private co-ownership properties: fractional ownership with privacy and investment income
Private Co-ownership is a unique form of fractional ownership that not only provides great vacations, but is also a sound investment. This sensible and elegant business model distinguishes itself from traditional fractional ownership and other vacation home offerings in three fundamental ways:
- Privacy: The private co-ownership groups are small, typically no more than five owners per home, for a superior level of privacy and pride of ownership. Calendar management is simplified, and personal use time is completely flexible year by year, with unused time generating rental income for the owners. The small number of investors allows for greater flexibility to make effective ownership decisions about ongoing issues or eventually selling the property.
- Fit: Private co-ownership is a mutual commitment between the management and the owners, as well as a financial bond between the owners themselves. There is unique mutual due diligence process that assesses whether private co-ownership is right for you. We help you to evaluate your investment and personal objectives, and help you to fully understand the business model and how becoming an owner in our fractional ownership properties can meet your needs and expectations. Knowing that your co-owners have also gone through this process gives you the confidence that your objectives and expectations are aligned throughout the owner group. If private co-ownership is not the right solution for you, Paris Property Finders can help you to identify the Paris pied-à-terre option best suited for you with our real estate search services.
- Rental Income and Personal Use Flexibility: The private co-ownership owners hand-pick their use time each year, from zero up to the maximum number of weeks per share, with any unused weeks going to the rental pool. The property management rents out the weeks that you are not in residence in order to create an income stream for you. For that, these properties are carefully chosen and outfitted to meet the exacting criteria of the short-term luxury rental market in Paris, in the very heart of Saint Germain des Près. The property is rented through only the most exclusive rental agents, ensuring that unused personal use time generates the maximum possible income for the owners. As an alternative option, the properties are part of a home exchange network of hundreds of properties worldwide, through which you can exchange weeks in your Paris home for time in another destination property.
As a small group of well-qualified owners participating in a boutique vacation investment, the co-owners acquire personally meaningful properties and diversify their portfolios by investing in great vacation real estate.
For many buyers, Private Co-ownership is a better approach than traditional fractional ownership offerings and proves the smartest way to invest in, and own, their dream vacation home.
Fractional ownership property: luxury, flexibility and the right amount of personal use time
For buyers looking to make a more modest investment, or who want a different style of neighborhood for their Paris pied-à-terre, private co-ownership may not be the right solution. As an alternative to private co-ownership and in response to that demand, a traditional fractional ownership property offers the same luxury comforts and amenities, but with a smaller financial commitment and a larger owner group. Many of the fundamentals are the same: the high standard of a special property in the right location with strong long-term capital gains potential - and, at a fraction of the price of sole ownership. Here's how fractional ownership property is different:
- Twelve owners: An increased the number of owners, while maintaining a comfortable and manageable size. While you do not have the same level of privacy enjoyed by a five-person owner group, purchase and upkeep costs are substantially reduced. For some people, the reduced usage time - four weeks per year - is all they would want in any event.
- Flexible personal use time: Each owner is entitled to four weeks of personal use of the property per year - fixed or flexible, you choose. Do you enjoy Paris at the same time every year? Or do you want to experience the City of Lights in her different seasons year after year? Or both? This unique fractional ownership model allows you to choose: fix or vary your personal use weeks to suit your travel lifestyle. Importantly, you are not pre-assigned your use time that you lose if you cannot use it. Your personal time is for you, for friends and family, or to trade for use of other luxury properties around the world through the carefully selected vacation home trading companies that represent the property.
- A special property with an added touch: Without the substantial rental income afforded by the private co-ownership properties, traditional fractional ownership is a lifestyle investment more than all else - but it remains an investment nonetheless. For a choice investment, Paris fractional ownership properties must have not just the usual elements that make for a desirable property, but always a special something else... The coup de grace in the current offering? A private terrace in an unspoiled courtyard, where you can enjoy your morning croissant or afternoon tea in luxurious silence before returning to your Paris life - or maybe just staying there a little longer.
A smaller investment level for less time in Paris, without giving up any of the luxury, amenities and warmth that you want and deserve. Traditional fractional ownership may be the right option for you.
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