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Some of the holiday home markets taking the biggest tumbles have one thing in common - they’ve been dominated by one nationality of expat buyer. France remains cosmopolitan and developer Arena Park France is attracting sales from across the globe.

Arrive at airport two hours before departure, pay £10 per kilo excess baggage, get charged £5 for a thimble-full of wine on the plane… Doesn’t sound much like a break? With Location Burgundy you can have your holiday your way.

With grape harvest in full swing Burgundy can now look forward to La Vente des Vins. In November Christies will auction off local wines to some of the biggest wine buyers in the world. Meanwhile residents take the opportunity to throw a 3 day fête.

Brits are suckers for turning rustic wrecks into hot properties but, if you do it on French soil, get yourself a project manager. Choosing to go alone will lead to frustration with a tough battle to get the home finished on-time and on-budget.

France, one of the most popular destinations for buying property abroad, is still an enigma to the Brits. Beware, the enigma percolates through to the property market. Heed Burgundy-based Arena Park France’s tips for buying a home in rural France.

It’s a brave man who takes on a building project in rural France. Tradesmen pick their own working hours, neighbouring curtains constantly twitch and details get lost in translation. Best leave it to the experts.

In famous wine villages that line Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, the property market is as sturdy as the vines that grip the soil. Housing here is about quality rather than quantity and is offering some serious French resistance to the economic downturn.

It’s difficult to buy a home in the sophisticated wine villages of Burgundy. This French region’s fertile land is worth more to locals cloaked in rows of vineyards than it is developed into modern housing so there's a real shortage of supply.