Advice for renting a long-term apartment in Nice
I want to rent a studio apartment in Nice (South of France). I am looking for a reliable agent who might help me. I have tried to find classifieds in English but other than Craigslist , I have seen only a few and mostly for holiday rentals. If anyone living in the area can suggest a resource, I'd appreciate it. Thanks for any information.
Here's the secret: locals don't search in English.
If you use the Google Chrome web browser, you can get the stuff auto-translated.
To find out how to search for real estate in any country, first go to Google Translate and type in "real estate", then set the 'translate to' language to the desired one (in this case French).
The result, in this case 'immobilier' will be what you need to put in to the search engine to get real estate listings, in addition to a place name. So in this case, you would search for 'Nice immobilier'.
If you do that in Google Chrome, when you click each of the results to open it up, you will have the option to 'translate this page' at the top of your window. This will give you more or less exactly what the locals see.
Note that this works for long term but not short term. Often short term stuff is better to search on airbnb or its equivalents.
If you are still looking for positions or more tips view our guide to working in France.