Prepare a fuller budget
Bring the purchase price, financing, works and ownership questions into your preparation.
Homebuyer Course · in English
Make your French home a considered decision.
Plan a home or second-home purchase, from the first questions to financing, completion and ownership costs.
€800, including applicable tax. Self-paced learning. Ongoing access to your purchased course version. 15-day course money-back guarantee.
Useful outcomes
The work you take away.
Understand the sequence
Know which documents and professional confirmations to seek as the purchase progresses.
Plan life as an owner
Consider location, renovation, running costs and the separate rules governing your intended stay.
A real lesson
Try the teaching before you choose.
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.
Explore the lesson previewWhat’s included
A sequence you can follow.
7 modules · 8 practical tools. Explained lessons, separate printable companions and package-specific calculators, checklists and templates. Open a module for its focus and tool.
Module 01Start Here
Set your goal, buying criteria and learning route.
Tool: Orientation Pack
Module 04How a Purchase Works
Understand the purchase sequence, documents and acquisition costs.
Tool: Purchase Timeline & True-Cost Calculator
Module 05Financing
Test borrowing capacity, cash requirements and lender-specific terms.
Tool: Borrowing Capacity & Mortgage Calculator
Module 06Money & Tax Foundations
Identify the cost and tax questions your situation requires.
Tool: Money & Tax Foundations tool
Module 10Relocation, Visas & Residency
Separate property ownership from the right to stay.
Tool: Visa & Residency Route Selector
Module 11Region Fit, Renovation & Ownership Costs
Compare location, works, energy and second-home costs.
Tool: Second-Home Planner
Module 12Compliant Landlord
Organise the checks and evidence required before relying on rental income.
Tool: Letting Compliance Checker
Homebuyer also includes the Deal Model in total-cost / break-even-if-let mode and the lesson 2.6 walkthrough. It does not include the full Investor’s Math module, Investor-only models or the M14 Decision Dossier.
Your course includes the lessons and resources listed above. The interactive property workspace requires active membership.
Your instructor
James JinCFA®, FRM · MBA, HEC Paris
Principal Advisor at Rivière Advisory
A decade of experience and specialist training in investment and real estate management informs James’s approach to evaluating costs, testing assumptions and preparing property decisions.
CFA® charterholder · Member of CFA Society France · Real estate programme at the London School of Economics.
Course value
Why invest in structured preparation?
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.
How the offer fits together
Your course and your ongoing workspace.
The course builds understanding.
Your purchased teaching remains available when membership expires. Use the lessons, companions and included package resources to prepare your own questions and work.
Membership
The workspace supports continued application.
The €300 annual membership, including applicable tax, is an optional addition for Homebuyer course buyers and renews annually unless cancelled. It enables interactive features within Homebuyer scope; it does not upgrade your course to Investor.
Compare saved scenarios, retain your notes and revisit your ownership-cost assumptions. Saved member projects remain readable and exportable after expiry; calculations and edits require active membership.
Explore your property workspace →Practical questions
Before you choose.
Is enrollment open?
Yes. Enroll online, verify your email and pay securely through Paddle. Your course unlocks after payment confirmation. Initial course purchases include an unconditional 15-day money-back guarantee.
Does the course replace professional advice?
No. It helps you prepare and understand questions for your lender, notaire and other relevant advisers. It does not supply personalised advice, mortgage approval or a return guarantee.
Are the tools all online calculators?
No. Course tools include calculators, checklists, scorecards and templates. Active members also have an interactive property workspace with saved scenarios, a guided journey and calculators.
Is this the right course for me?
Choose Homebuyer for a home or second-home purchase. For deeper rental analysis, ownership structures or portfolio decisions, compare the Investor Course.
Your next step
See whether the approach fits you.
Open the sample financing lesson, then return here with a clearer sense of the teaching and the work involved.
Preview a lesson Enroll now · €800Read now. Keep your PDF after the guarantee period.
Course companions are available to read in your account immediately, with page-layout and selectable-text views. For new purchases under this delivery policy, their PDF downloads unlock at 00:00 Paris time after the fifteenth calendar day following purchase. The purchase day is excluded, and your account shows the exact date.
The initial-course 15-calendar-day money-back guarantee remains available. A pending refund request may pause PDF delivery while it is reviewed. Existing customers retain their earlier download rights. Membership cancellation does not remove purchased course access or eligible companion downloads. Applicable statutory rights are preserved.
The free workspace trial and the course guarantee are separate. A separately purchased membership or later renewal does not automatically receive the course guarantee.