South of France is most popular according to property search

According to the property portal The propertywire.com based on the amount of inquiries received by the property portal The Move Channel, the most popular region in France for real estate in 2011 as PACA (Provence–Alps–Côte d’Azur) with 15,65% of all French real estate.

Other southern regions are also popular with house “hunters”, with Aquitaine receiving 14.11% of inquiries, closely followed by Languedoc Rousillon with 13.94%. The least popular area for property in France was Lorraine, with 0.29% of French property inquiries.

Despite this demand for property in the South of France, Paris is shown to be the city with the strongest investment appeal, accounting for over a fifth of the portal’s inquiries last year. Bordeaux and Marseilles were close runners up.