What is your home worth? The twelve-page study, in English, within 48 hours.
More than a number: a written study of your home, built on what actually sold around it, and walked through with you at the agency or by video call, in English. Then your house goes to the whole French market, like any Orpi listing, plus my English-speaking buyers on top. Even if you have already left France. At no extra cost.
Five stars, in both languages.
Real Google reviews, translated from the French they were written in: proof that the French side of your sale runs natively. You can check every one of them on the Orpi Les Carmes Immobilier Toulouse profile on Google.
“I highly recommend John-Newman Prentice for the sale of your property. We managed the sale remotely; John was highly proactive and kept us informed at every step. He also coordinated the viewings with the tenants in place, and the fact that he communicates as well in English as in French proved very precious! 5 stars!”
“Thank you to Mr Prentice for his support. A real listener, good advice, an outstanding sense of the human, and patience that never ran out. Thank you, Sir.”
“John guided us superbly through our property purchase. Always available, warm, patient at explaining and very professional; and on top of being likeable, he prepares his files thoroughly. Thank you”
“My flat purchase went through successfully thanks to this agency. The agents are competent, give good advice and are friendly. I recommend them without hesitation.”
Satisfaction measured by Opinion System, an independent AFNOR-certified survey institute, for Orpi Les Carmes. Views: Instagram professional dashboard, August 2026.
What sellers tell me in the first call.
Five worries come up again and again. None of them is unusual, and each one has a straight answer.
“Every online simulator gives me a different number.”
They estimate from averages, so they disagree. The study is built on what actually sold in your commune, address by address, and it comes to you in writing with the evidence attached.
“I was given a price, but never shown where it came from.”
You see the method before the number: what sold nearby, what is still for sale, and what never sold at all. Twelve pages about your home, before we talk price.
“Agency fees are a percentage. What does it actually pay for?”
A fair question, and it deserves a real answer. In the study, the fee is opened up line by line: what goes to the state, what pays for your home's visibility, what runs the agency, and what comes to me. You see where every euro goes before you sign anything.
“We signed, and then… silence.”
The most common story sellers bring me, and the easiest one to fix. We agree an update rhythm when the mandate is signed: SMS, WhatsApp, email or a call, visit by visit, offer by offer. You will never have to chase me for news.
“I don't want my hands tied to one agency for three months.”
Most mandates do tie them. Mine does not: end it with one email, free, whenever you choose. I would rather keep your trust by the work than by the contract. It keeps me sharp.
Whatever is behind the move.
Nobody asks what their home is worth out of idle curiosity. In my experience it is one of four moments, and each one changes what a good sale looks like.
A bigger or smaller home
A family that has outgrown the rooms, or rooms that have outgrown the family. The study tells you what your home frees up for the next one, before you commit to anything.
A separation
Two people need one clear, neutral number they can both trust, in writing. The study is built on the public sales record, on nobody's side, and I keep both of you informed equally, in English.
A relocation
Your company is moving you, or you are moving home. The clock is real: the study gives you the price that sells within your timeline, and I run the visits, the offers and the notaire after you have gone.
An inheritance
A home that carries more than its value. When the time comes to sell, the study gives the family one honest number to decide around, and I handle the rest with care.
Twelve pages about your home, before we talk price.
This is the Dossier d'Étude: the study I prepare for every owner, and walk through with you at the agency, at your kitchen table, or by video call. In English.
- ✓ Your property, its cadastre and its surroundings, mapped and scored
- ✓ Travel times, noise levels and the area's own numbers
- ✓ What actually sold nearby: the Orpi shared file, Amanda and DVF
- ✓ An honest price bracket, and the figure I recommend you net
- ✓ And where every euro of the fee goes, shown line by line
Pages from a real study. Client details redacted.
How your home gets its best price.
Not by asking high and hoping. The best price arrives when two buyers want your home at the same time: the competition moves to their side of the table, and the offer comes in at your price. Priced right, the Orpi average is one offer for every five visits, and visits peak in the first four weeks. My job is to create that moment: the right price on day one, in front of the buyers who are looking. The data below is why.
Buyer interest, by asking price
95% decline to visit at +20% · Source: Orpi
Visits, week by week
The buyers who matter see your listing first · Source: Orpi
Where your home goes the day it is listed.
Two buyers at once is the aim, so your home has to be everywhere buyers actually look. Here is where it goes.
A photographer, then a film
Buyers fall in love with pictures before they fall in love with houses. So every listing gets a professional photographer, and I film your home myself for a following of English and French-speaking buyers: half a million views in a single month. Watch two real films below.
A virtual tour, before any visit
Buyers walk through your home online first, room by room. The ones who then book a real visit arrive already half-decided. Serious visits, fewer disturbed Saturdays. Try one below.
Twenty-eight websites and platforms
Sixteen portals chosen directly, from LeBonCoin and SeLoger to the prestige and international sites, and twelve more through partner feeds: twenty-eight places your buyer might already be looking. The full list is just below, by name.
One mandate. 247 agencies on it.
The day your home is listed, the 37 Orpi agencies around Toulouse are notified, and more than 210 partner agencies through Amanda, the shared file. Any of their agents can bring a buyer. I vet each one, you keep one point of contact, and it costs you nothing more.
No offer reaches you unchecked
I work with a courtier, a licensed mortgage broker, who checks every buyer's financing before their offer reaches your table. If they cannot buy, you never lose a week to them. You decide between real offers only.
News at the rhythm you choose
SMS, WhatsApp, email or a call: we agree the rhythm when the mandate is signed, and you hear from me at that rhythm, visit by visit, offer by offer, through to the notaire's table and beyond.
The twenty-eight, by name
16 direct · 12 via partner feeds
SeLoger
Leboncoin
Bien'ici
Figaro Immo
Logic-Immo
Superimmo
EtreProprio
Alentoor
Acheter-Louer.fr
A Vendre A Louer
Belles Demeures
Propriétés Le FigaroLux-Residence
Green-Acres
Properstar
SeLoger NeufFigaro Immoneuf
Achat-Terrain
Ouest-France ImmoSurface PrivéeTrovit Immobilier
BureauxLocauxSeLoger Bureaux & Commerces
Cession PME
Fichier AMEPI (Amanda)
FNAIMGédéonWhere your home appears depends on what it is: the prestige portals for a maison de maître, the international ones for buyers searching from abroad. And if you would rather keep it off a particular website, it stays off.
Two real films from my listings, exactly as they went out. One in English, one in French: the two markets your sale speaks to.
A real virtual tour from one of my current listings. Serious listings get one.
Toulouse, and 100 km in every direction.
From the office at 16 Place du Salin, I cover the whole of Haute-Garonne and reach into the Gers, the Tarn and the Ariège foothills. Everything on this map is my working area, not a special trip: I value houses here, show them here, and sit at signings here. It is simply the job.
Haute-Garonne · Gers · Tarn · Tarn-et-Garonne · Ariège
How selling in France actually works.
Agreed in writing, paid only when the sale completes.
The commission is set in writing on the mandate before anything is marketed, and it is paid at the notaire's office on completion. Never before, and never if the house does not sell.
If a partner agency brings the buyer, the two agencies split that one commission between them. Your net proceeds do not change by a euro; the house simply reaches more buyers.
The buyer pays the notaire. Not you.
The notaire's fees on a sale are paid by the buyer, which surprises many English-speaking sellers. What the seller funds: the diagnostics file (see sheet 3) and, for a second home, any capital gains tax due. A principal residence is exempt from capital gains tax.
Before you commit to anything, I set out your figures in writing, line by line, so the number that reaches your account is never a surprise.
The seller pays the diagnostics, and some papers commit you from the first signature.
Before a French sale, the seller funds a file of obligatory diagnostic surveys, carried out by qualified independent diagnostiqueurs: energy (DPE), lead, asbestos, electricity, gas, natural risks, the septic tank if not on mains drains, swimming pool safety. I organise the diagnostiqueurs for you and read the results with you, in English.
And a French sale involves documents that commit you from the moment you sign them: the mandate, an accepted offer, the preliminary contract, a power of attorney. We go through each one together, line by line, in English, before you sign anything. At no extra cost.
One agent, in English,
from the valuation to the final deed.
From the first walk through your rooms to completion at the notaire's office, you deal with one person, and that person answers to you. You will never wonder whether the silence is normal: I tell you what is happening, in English, at every step. And not just English-speaking: bilingual. Your side of the sale runs in English; the French side, the notaire, the mandates, the other agents, runs in native French. A French sale is a different culture, not just a different language, and I grew up in both.
I grew up watching my mother hand English families their French keys.
Fifteen years at Century 21 in Mirepoix, walking English-speaking buyers and sellers through French sales across the Ariège. She has retired; I carry the practice in Toulouse, in my first year of it, with everything she taught me. Hers was Century 21. Mine is Orpi, and the choice was deliberate: Orpi is better represented across Occitanie, and for your sale that means more partner agencies carrying your house to their buyers.
A house on the market,
and no news?
Send me the link to your current listing. I will send you a candid, written second opinion, free: how the price sits against what actually sold nearby, and what an English-speaking buyer sees when they scroll past. No obligation, and whatever you decide to do with it is yours.
A written reply within 24 hours, in English.
Get the study of your home.
A few taps, then your own words if you want, typed or spoken. I build the valuation on the official sales record for your commune and put it in writing, with the evidence.
- ✓ The written study of your home within 48 hours, built on real sales
- ✓ A marketing plan: the whole French market, plus my English-speaking buyers
- ✓ An honest number, even when it is smaller than you hoped
Two minutes, typed or spoken. Reviewed by me personally. No obligation, and your details go nowhere else.
Seven questions every seller asks me.
1. Will listing with an English-speaking agent cut me off from French buyers?
No, and this is the whole point of how I work. Your house is an Orpi listing like any other: it goes to the whole French market and to the partner agencies of Amanda, the shared-mandate file, in French, handled natively. My English-speaking buyers are added on top of that, never instead of it.
2. Will you ask me for an exclusive mandate?
I offer both, and I will be honest about why the exclusive works better: some premium portals, Le Figaro Immobilier among them, only accept exclusive listings, and one agent answering for one home is what gets several buyers interested at once, which is how homes sell at their asking price. Either way, you are never locked in: end the mandate with one email, free, whenever you choose. That policy keeps me sharp.
3. Will I actually understand what I am signing?
Yes. The mandate, any offer, the preliminary contract (the compromis) and the final deed: we go through each one together, line by line, in English, days before the meeting at the notaire's office. A proper read-through, at no extra cost.
4. Can I sell without flying back to France?
Yes. The signings can be done remotely by power of attorney (procuration), and the meetings themselves can be followed by video conference. I handle the visits, the diagnostics and the notaire on the ground, and keep you informed at every step, in English.
5. Who pays the notaire's fees when I sell?
The buyer, which surprises many sellers. What you fund as the seller: the diagnostics file before the sale, and, if the property is a second home, any capital gains tax due. A principal residence is exempt from capital gains tax.
6. How do I know the valuation is honest?
Because it comes with its evidence. I build it on DVF, the state's record of what nearby homes actually sold for, and I give it to you in writing with the comparable sales attached. If the honest number is smaller than you hoped, I will still give you the honest number.
7. How do I verify your credentials?
I operate under the carte professionnelle issued to Orpi Les Carmes by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie (CCI) de Toulouse, with the mandatory professional indemnity insurance and financial guarantee behind every transaction. Ask me for the card number and check it with the CCI yourself: I will send it without being offended.
Your buyer may not
speak French either.
The buyers this site attracts are looking for houses exactly like yours, within 100 km of Toulouse, and they want the whole purchase in English. Your house reaches them, and the whole French market, through one person. Tell me about it, and you will have a written answer within 48 hours.