Aim

Villas France is a UK company which has been set up to find rental tenants for privately owned French holiday property.

Villas France maintains an up-to-date web site advertising your property using both pictures and text. By actively promoting the site with  Villas France puts your property in front of millions of potential customers.

What it costs (CURRENTLY EITHER 1. FREE FOR SIX MONTHS (as much text as needed and 3 x pictures) OR 2. EIGHTEEN MONTHS FOR £39.78 (as much text as needed and up to 5 x pictures + free booking calendar)

Our standard 12-month advertisement includes 3 free colour pictures and as much text as you want to describe your property and its area in great detail. We are currently offering this advert free for a single year with three pictures (this is offered for a limited period only). In the future this advert will cost £85 p/a + VAT. This is significantly less expensive than other brochure and Internet advertising prices, and is a cost-effective solution whether Villas France is your sole-advertising medium or part of an overall campaign. Perhaps you are wondering how we can offer such a low price. The answer is simple: - using cutting edge programming we are able to automate many time consuming tasks which in turn means less overheads and lower prices – plain and simple.

Who visits Villas France

Unlike other rental web-sites, Villas France concentrates solely on lettable privately owned properties in France. This means that hits on our site are from bona-fide customers who are actively looking for a holiday rental in France. Other web-sites offer world-wide coverage with a particular slant to the American tourist. They also promote other types of holiday, such as skiing, golf, beach, etc. Most holiday rentals in France are from UK, French, and other North European customers, and by keeping our site specific we can guarantee a specific audience. Other web sites promoting lettable properties world wide boast fantastic (though not substantiated) visits to sites. However in reality it is likely that only a tiny percentage of those visitors would be interested in your property. This is because they could be looking for any kind of property in any part of the world (what good to you is a site visitor who is looking for a golfing holiday in Florida for example?).

Brochure vs. Internet

Villas France is designed to operate completely via the Internet. Internet advertising and brochure advertising are two different media, and different rules apply. Some holiday companies maintain a token web-presence, and use the Internet as a means for potential customers to order a brochure or to sell other services (Ferries, Car Rental, etc.).The sites are not successful because traditional brochure advertising companies do not understand how the Internet works. It could also be said that they would not want the sites to work because if they did it would undermine their existing brochure businesses. Villas France only advertise on the Internet and do not sell other products. This means we spend our time keeping the site up to date and working effectively. We are only interested in promoting your property, not our business or any other products we sell.

Value for Money

The potential Internet market is measured in millions, and can be reached 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. This can help reduce the seasonality of your holiday rental, and increase lettings outside the normal busy summer period. It is expected that 90% of people will make their travel/holiday purchasing decisions using the Internet within the next 3-5 years.

Once you have decided to advertise with Villas France, simply send us (via conventional post or e-mail ) up to 3 pictures of your rental property, along with a completed property text sheet which can be found by pressing either the button at the top or bottom of this page. This will automatically prepare the on-line brochure for your property. Once the advertising payment has been received (if appropriate) your on-line brochure will be activated. We will post it on our web-site for 12 months. If you have access to a computer and e-mail you can amend any details you wish to on your advert at any time (free). If you cannot access the web yourself we will be happy to make any changes you wish for a small administrative charge (£5).

Villas France will shuffle the pages of our web-site on a regular basis, in order to maintain a clean and new feel to the site. This also ensures your villa is not ‘hidden’ in our web-site. We will also restrict the number of rental properties in a given area based on the demand in that area in order to avoid over supply of properties.

Additional services

Do you have your own private web site for your property? If you do not have one then it is really worth getting this organised. Most holiday makers after seeing your property on the Villas France and other web sites will expect to be able to view more detail by visiting a private web site exclusively about the house and area. In our experience this will increase the number of serious enquiries and bookings you will receive significantly.

We offer advertisers on the Villas France web site an inexpensive web site design service. For example we can create a quality three page private site for only 225Euros (or £150). As an incentive we offer users of the web design service one and half years free advertising on the Villas France web site. Normally we can have your private web site up and running in just one to two weeks. Please email websitedesign@villas-france.com if this would be of interest.

Experience

Villas France have direct experience in owning and renting property in France, and we understand the difficulties and pitfalls involved. We are an Internet company, not a conventional advertiser leaping on the Internet bandwagon. We are the only serious web-site concentrating solely on privately owned holiday properties in France, not selling other products or services.

Villas France is part of a UK-based Ltd Company.

If you have any further questions before advertising your property with Villas France please e-mail them to advertise@villas-france.com

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