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No Tour, No Problem! Why Home Buyers Are Scooping Up Villas Sight Unseen in the French Riviera

No Tour, No Problem! Why Home Buyers Are Scooping Up Villas Sight Unseen in the French Riviera

BY DEGEN PENER | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT Social media helps travelers buy multimillion-dollar properties without stepping foot in them: "People are surfing the web like crazy." Frederic Barth, a Cannes-based agent with Sotheby’s International Realty, says he recently sold a house to a buyer who saw the property only via WhatsApp due to COVID-19 restrictions on international travel. “He’s a French national, living in the United States for the past 15 years, who bought a 5 million [euro] villa in St. Tropez sight unseen. We’ve never seen that in the past,” says Barth, who adds, “We had another buyer from Denmark who…
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