Property surveys in Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac

Property surveys in Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac : what you need to know

Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac brings together three former villages, and the housing shows it. Each village centre keeps its stone houses, barns and wine stores, often altered over the generations. Towards the estuary, the low-lying land reclaimed from the water, known as mattes, carries isolated farms and farm buildings. Between the villages, newer detached houses complete the picture.

A village house built before 1 January 1949 needs a CREP (lead report), for a sale or a let. If the building permit predates 1 July 1997, an asbestos survey is mandatory: it covers barns, sheds and their fibre-cement roofs. Gas and electrical installations over 15 years old are inspected. Outside the village centres, many homes rely on a private septic system, with an inspection report required for a sale. To let, you need the loi Boutin living area and a DPE (Energy Performance Certificate). Since 1 January 2025, a G-rated home can no longer be let, and F will follow in 2028. A termite inspection is required in municipalities covered by a prefectoral order: we check the status of your address.

Depending on the property's location, the ERP (risk statement) may flag flooding and tidal surge, especially near the estuary and in marshland, as well as clay shrink-swell. We come up from Mérignac for the day and survey the house and all its farm outbuildings in a single visit.