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French property is facing a slump "of Anglo-Saxon proportions", according to some experts, as the country's property boom threatens the market with a fall in prices of up to 40 per cent.
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, is keeping up the pressure on world leaders and urging them not to become complacent.
The credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, believes that the European macroeconomic crisis will not extend beyond 2012, which will result in a “significant recovery” of European real estate markets in 2013.
Ask any French agent and they could find you a home for £275,000. But in Courbefy, located within the Limousin region, that figure can get you a lot more than one house: you can buy the whole village. It may not be a bad move, judging by reports from the national statistics office, which suggest that France's economy remains a safe haven for Eurozone investors.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has used a prime time television interview to lay out his plan to rejuvenate the economy.
Some French people are upset with their country's unemployment situation, which has reached nearly 10 per cent.
European stock markets have opened slightly higher following falls in Asia after Standard & Poor's (S&P) cut the credit rating for France and a number of other European countries.
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