French Park Home - chattel or real estate

Does anyone have experience of the succession regime for a French Park Home? In the UK a park home would be classed as a chattel and I would be grateful if anyone can advise whether this is the case under French law?

Caroline Wilden
Probate Solicitors

Do you mean a mobile home akin to a caravan, but which occupies a plot with utility connections ?

Peter Harris

Hi Peter

Thank you for your response.

My client describes it as a ‘chalet’ but essentially it is a de-mountable asbestos building clad in wood. The plot was leased and there are services.

Best Regards
Caroline Wilden
Probate Solicitors

Do you have a copy of the foncier rate? That would probably be conclusive in a small case as to land and or “building”. .

The notary involved in the succession over the serviced plot should really confirm the position in relation to the immovable and the contraption as a whole.

History might help, as there is a specific depreciation régime for dismountable chalets put up for exhibition purposes, which are depreciable as movables. If the chalet is still dismountable, then it might qualify as a movable. The plot with services will however be immovable.

Caveat, the Eiffel Tower was dismountable, there are bolts to prove it but the idea seems to have become somewhat fixed.

Peter Harris
www.overseaschambers.com