French property courses · in English

A French property.
A clearer plan.

Understand the buying process, prepare your numbers and know what to check before you commit—with structured courses, worked examples and practical tools.

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Created by James Jin, CFA®, FRM · MBA, HEC Paris

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Your next property decision starts with a clearer view.

Try the Navigator purchase workspace free for 14 days. Build one personal purchase plan and compare two scenarios for price, borrowing, works and ongoing costs.

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Choose your path

Start with the project you have in mind.

Homebuyer Course

A home in France.
A plan you understand.

For your home, second home or relocation project. Work through the purchase, financing and costs of ownership.

Build a fuller buying budget
Prepare questions for your lender and notaire
Separate owning a property from permission to stay

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Investor Course

Your first French investment.
Or your next.

For a rental property or a growing portfolio. Evaluate a deal, test assumptions and organise the evidence behind your decision.

Compare properties on a consistent basis
Explore financing, letting and ownership questions
Bring your findings into a Decision Dossier

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Inside the course

See how understanding becomes useful work.

Actual financing lesson slide showing a worked monthly debt-service screen

Learn the idea.
Work through the example.
Record what matters to you.

See a real financing lesson and its printable companion. Follow the reasoning, then identify the inputs and evidence your own situation needs.

Genuine course excerpts. The numbers are fictional teaching inputs, not a lending offer.

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Meet your instructor

James JinCFA®, FRM

Principal Advisor
Rivière Advisory

MBA, HEC Paris

View James’s professional background on LinkedIn

A decade of experience and specialist training in investment and real estate management.

James holds an MBA from HEC Paris, is a CFA® charterholder and a member of CFA Society France, and has completed a real estate programme at the London School of Economics.

His approach combines investment analysis, risk management and practical property evaluation to help buyers understand the numbers, test assumptions and make informed decisions.

HEC Paris’s Grande École programme: No. 1 in France, Le Figaro Étudiant 2026.

Qualifications and memberships relate to James personally; they do not imply institutional endorsement of the Playbook.

The value of a method

What better preparation gives you.

A property decision involves more than a listing price. A structured course helps you organise the questions, numbers and evidence before you commit.

Less scattered research. Follow a learning sequence and keep your work together.
A fuller cost picture. Consider acquisition, financing, works and ownership assumptions.
Better-prepared conversations. Bring specific questions and recorded inputs to your professionals.

Beyond the course

Learn once. Keep applying it.

Your property workspace

Your project can continue beyond the purchase.

Connect your learning with saved property scenarios, financing assumptions and notes. Compare alternatives and keep a history of your decisions.

€300 per year for course buyers. Investor includes Year 1, then membership renews at €300/year unless cancelled. Interactive access stays within your purchased course’s scope. Prices include applicable tax.

See how membership fits

01Plan

Explore a property and compare assumptions.

02Decide

Keep notes, assumptions and your reasoning.

03Own

Revisit your ownership-cost assumptions.

Your next step

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Start with a real lesson, or explore the course that fits your plans. Choose your course and start learning at your own pace.

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Homebuyer · €800
Investor · €1,500

Prices include applicable tax. Investor includes the first membership year, then €300/year unless cancelled.

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