Our Three Day Living and Investing in Conference

Sunday, September 26, 2021 Arrival and check-in at the Splendid Hotel in . Relax and enjoy!

Monday, September 27, 2021 – Day 1 Conference Day – Prepare for a full day of insightful presentations. We’ll treat you to lunch and an evening reception with our experts where you’ll rub elbows and learn even more about living and wisely investing in France! Detailed schedule with times: Click here

Meet Our Experts (Click on their headshot for more information)

Speakers, lots of topics, lunch and a Champagne reception too all are included today. Tour the Riviera Tuesday, September 28, 2021 – Day 2 Departure: 8:30 am Please meet in the lobby of the Splendid Hotel at 8:15 am. Get ready! We’re taking a full day to explore the Cote d’Azur by motor coach with a professional guide. We’ll tour the Riviera starting off from Nice, and spanning the coast from Eze Village to . You’ll see it all! Along the way we’ll make some key stops – Saint Jean-Cap-Ferrat… Villefranche-sur-Mer where we’ll have lunch on the port or wherever you like in this lovely seaside village… and Menton, the last town before the Italian border with more Provençal shops than any other.

Our guide will discuss everything we’re seeing, and you’ll have a chance to ask plenty of questions. We’ll head back to Nice at the end of the afternoon and take a full tour of this amazing city before returning to the Splendid Hotel.

A Glance at the Past, and a Glimpse of Today…

Often known in English as the , the Cote d’Azur is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, and includes the sovereign state of .

At the end of the 18th century, it began as a winter health resort for the British upper class – one of the first modern resort areas. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century, it became the playground and vacation spot for British, Russian and other aristocrats, and the likes of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was Price of Wales.

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, and Aldous Huxley were among many “artists” who frequented this breathtaking coastline in the first half of the 20th century. After World War II, it became a popular tourist destination and convention site. Today, Elton John and Brigitte Bardot have homes in the region along with many other celebrities.

Officially the Cote d’Azur is home to 163 nationalities with about 84,000 foreign residents, but estimates of non-French nationals living here are often much higher.

The French Riviera The French Riviera surrounds the principality of Monaco with a total population of over two million. It also contains the seaside resorts of Cap-d’Ail, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Villefranche-sur- Mer, , Juan-les-Pins, , Saint-Raphael, Fréjus, Sainte Maxime and Saint-Tropez.

Nice, France Nice is its largest city, with a population of approximately 347,000. The city is the center of a communauté urbaine – Nice-Côte d’Azur – bringing together 24 communes and over 500,000 inhabitants, with 933,000 residents in the urban area. Despite its size, Nice is an easy city to explore, with most places of interest focused around the central area.

Chapelle de la Sainte Croix is famous worldwide for its hilltop view of the sea. Chapelle de la Sainte Croix is the oldest building in the village, dating back to 1306. Members of the lay order of the White Penitents of Èze, in charge of giving assistance to plague victims, held their meetings here. Thanks to its beauty and charm, this small medieval village attracts tourists and honeymooners, drawn to the gorgeous views, many shops, art galleries, hotels and restaurants.

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat is considered the “Presquîle de Rêve” or Peninsula of Dreams, a perfectly preserved 282-hectare headland. No wonder so many rich and famous have villas here! Beaches and paths by the seaside pass luxurious mansions and magnificent gardens. At the beginning of the 20th century, King Léopold II of Belgium owned an estate on Cap-Ferrat and built several houses and an artificial lake. Villa des Cèdres is the main residence today, owned by the founder of Grand Marnier, Marnier-Lapostolle since 1924, and it’s now a private botanical garden called “Les Cèdres.”

Villefranche-sur-Mer Villefranche-sur-Mer is a town and seaside resort, a short distance east of Nice and close to the French border with . On a site occupied since Roman times, ‘modern’ Villefranche was founded by Charles II of Anjou, the Count of in 1925. Soon after, the town fell into the hands of the Dukes of Savoy and had Italian ownership until 1860, when the region was transferred back to France. Built on terraces up a steep hill, the town overlooks the azure blue sea and a beautiful Mediterranean bay below. It’s small enough that exploring is easy and main attractions can be comfortably reached from the center.

Menton, France Menton is one of the most popular and vibrant destinations on the Riviera, a coastal town and resort with a lovely combination of the sea and port, the old town, and its magnificent gardens and villas. Mountains behind the town protect it from cold northerly weather and bless it with a fine climate even compared to the rest of the Cote d’Azur.

The French Riviera’s unparalleled beauty is sure to make you want to return… and we will!

Round table discussions and property tour Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - Day 3 This morning you will be able to join Adrian Leeds and her team for a round-table discussion from 10:00AM-12:00PM at the Splendid – an opportunity to sit with them and their professionals, and ask your questions that perhaps you missed in the previous days. Today in the afternoon, we’ll venture out to see various properties in the Nice area during a special “Open House American-style.” Thanks to our search consultants and trusted real estate agents in the area, you’ll have the opportunity to visit dozens of properties on the market, all open for your viewing.

You’ll have a chance to leisurely wander from one to the next, and see what’s currently available. You’ll also get to visit recent purchases made by Adrian’s clients.

Then it is back to the Hotel Splendid for a final farewell drink with the group.

Our Expert Profile’s

Kim Bingham will be with us… she’s our international mortgage broker, securing loans for non- resident buyers purchasing property across France. She runs the team of international mortgage brokers at Private-Rate.com and works with clients worldwide, finding financing solutions adapted to each individual’s needs. Kim will explain what it takes to get a mortgage in France…at today’s interest rates of under 1.5 percent!

Tuula Rampont from International Living will talk about how you can obtain the right to live and work in France. She’s IL’s France Correspondent, originally from Southern California, who also manages an English-language school in the city of Toulon. Tuula quickly became a confirmed Francophile and shares her passion for France regularly through blogging and freelance writing for International Living and others. At our conference, Tuula will share her insights into the visa and immigration process… one of the most important sessions of the conference.

Tanya Uniacke - We’re thrilled that Moneycorp’s Tanya Uniacke is in our line-up. Moneycorp is a foreign exchange and international currency specialist based in London, with an office in Florida for American clients. They provide competitive exchange rates and are the professionals who will support you during your property purchase in France. They help secure the best rate possible – they’ll explain how to reduce the rate of exchange risk and take more control over your finances.

I’m certain you’ll want to hear what financial advisor Brian Dunhill has to say. Brian’s firm, Dunhill Financial is a team of international financial planners who specialize in working with American expats, and they have a wide scope of experience with multinational firms. This company offers independent advice and personalized solutions for each client based on their individual situations through aggregated planning and collaborating – they’re in a position to help with every aspect of your financial planning, including a way to fund a property purchase in France.

Laura Poirier - Our local and trusted interior designer Laura Poirier will talk about how to renovate and decorate your new Riviera abode. Most properties on offer need refreshing, if not a complete renovation. She’s worked with dozens of Adrian’s clients on the Côte d’Azur and updated their properties to perfection.

Carole Vangioni, our Riviera Notaire will be on hand to talk about the process of purchasing property in France. Carole is not only fluent in French and English, but she lived in the U.S. for many years which gives her the advantage of understanding expat’s needs. She’s responsive, efficient, and a creative thinker when it comes to the toughest questions. We’re sure you’ll hang on every word she has to say.

Benjamin Pik, of Pik Consulting has agreed to speak about French and U.S. taxation. He’s a dual French and American Certified Public Accountant admitted to practice public accounting both in France

and in the U.S. Benjamin is bilingual in English and French, holds degrees from both the University Dauphine (France) and from Concordia University (Canada). Prior to opening his own practice, he worked for eight years in international accounting firms across North America, the Middle East, and Europe where he coordinated French and foreign financial audits and provided advisory services. He won’t be in Nice at the time of our conference but he’s agreed to pre-record his presentation so we won’t miss a single, important word about this vital issue.

Ella Dyer & Jennifer Parrette will be with Adrian throughout the conference and they’ll tell you all about buying property in France. Ella and Jennifer are Adrian’s search consultants on the ground in Nice, and they can find just about anything you’re looking for.

Ella’s varied career path has taken her from working at the Playboy Mansion to earning an MBA from The International University of Monaco. Jennifer launched her own real estate company in the southwest of France and she’s a perfect partner for Adrian’s team. Between these two, you couldn’t be in better hands.

Our Host, Adrian Leeds is committed to helping people realize their dream life in France, aside from the full range of property services she provides, Adrian produces Living and Investing in France conferences, Expat Financial Forums, as well as other workshops and seminars designed to educate the expatriate community. For more information about her Events, Workshops, and Webinars, click here.

A big part of Adrian’s raison d’être is to bring the North American expatriate community together and to give back to that community, which has given her so much support. One of the ways she does this is, with her long-standing coffee gathering in Paris, Après-Midi, which hosts a different speaker each month, and is free of charge to anyone who wishes to attend. During the period of Covid-19 confinement, the event was held on Zoom.us to enable people from all over the world to attend, and not a single occasion was missed even during these trying times.

What Adrian is most well-known for is her ongoing relationship with HGTV. Since 2006, she has appeared as the property consultant in more than 45 episodes of House Hunters International, boasting more appearances than any other agent in the show’s history. As one of the most popular agents on the show, viewers get to know her tell-it-like-it-is personality while she combs the romantic streets of Paris or sunny paths in Nice or the French countryside searching for the ideal home for the popular show’s would-be homeowners.