Who you are

Private clients: inheritance, gifts, divorce, tax and disputes in France

You do not need to know the vocabulary of valuation. Describe your situation and I will tell you which report you need, in what time and at what price.

Expert registered with the RENNES Court of Appeal
Charte de l’expertise 2025
EVS 2025 TEGOVA
Professional indemnity insured

Your needs

Your needs, my answers

You inherit a house, a flat or SCI shares in France

A reasoned value at the date of death, which the notaire (French civil-law notary) includes in the inheritance declaration and which stands up to a tax audit. Discounts on shares in an SCI (French property-holding company) are justified.

Market value

You are divorcing or separating

The value of the home, the business or the shares to calculate the equalising payment (soulte), the compensation between spouses (récompenses) or a preferential allocation. Privately, jointly with the other spouse's expert, or on appointment by the family court judge.

Market value

You are preparing a gift or a split of ownership

Full ownership value, with usufruct and bare ownership valued economically or under the scale of article 669 of the French General Tax Code, depending on the objective.

Market value

The French tax authorities contest a value

Counter-valuation report for the reply to a tax reassessment notice, the conciliation commission or the court. Wealth tax (IFI), inheritance, gift, capital gains.

Market value

A neighbouring project or a defect damages your property

Quantification of the loss of value and the loss of enjoyment: neighbouring construction, loss of view, hidden defect, floor area error, overvaluation at purchase.

Loss of value

You are the guardian or representative of a protected adult

Valuation report for the application to the guardianship judge before the sale of the adult's home.

Market value

You are leaving joint ownership or ending a life annuity sale

Share, equalising payment, occupation indemnity between joint owners, value of the right of use and habitation, lump sum and annuity of a viager sale.

Market value

What I stand for

A private client commissions a valuation only once or twice in a lifetime, at a difficult moment. My job is to make the report readable for you, not only for the notaire or the judge.Erwan BARGAIN, Property valuation expert registered with the RENNES Court of Appeal

Frequently asked questions

How much does a valuation cost for an inheritance or a divorce?

Usually €975 for a house or a flat, with a visit and a full report, plus travel charged at €65 per hour or part hour for the return trip from PONT-L'ABBÉ (VAT not applicable). The quote is free and can be prepared from a simple written description. See the Fees page.

Can the notaire do the valuation themselves?

The notaire can give an opinion of value, and often knows the local market well. Where heirs disagree or a tax audit is under way, a valuation report drawn up by an expert from outside the notaire's office provides a written demonstration, with its comparables and its methods, that everyone can check.

What do you need to see on site?

The whole property, including the attic, the basement and the outbuildings, with the documents: title deed, statutory surveys, property tax notice, plans, minutes of general meetings for a co-owned building, leases if it is let. The visit lasts between 45 minutes and 2 hours.

My former spouse has already had a valuation done. What should I do?

Either a critical review of that report, which takes as much time as a valuation, or a joint valuation to which they are invited. A second single-party report set against the first rarely leads to an agreement.

Describe your situation, receive a free quote

By email or by phone, as you prefer. The quote sets out the assignment, the timeframe and the price.

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