Well there's one for sale not far from here and the price is just 135,000€
Yes you heard me right, 135,000€ that's £116,300 in Brexit beer tokens. Here's a pic of it with my RP outside taken on New Year's day 2016:



It's a nice place in a quiet location. It has turrets and looks the part. It does need some modernisation.
OK there's a catch. You pay the 135K up front and you get the château, along with two old folk who you have to pay 580€ a month until they croak. Then and only then do you get the château. You just have to take a gamble on how long you think they'll last until they chuck off their mortal coils.

One famous sale "en viager" took place in Arles several years ago. An 80 years old woman sold her home en viager to a local Notaire who thought he'd snapped up a bargain. Unfortunately for him she outlived him. His descendants still had to pay the monthly charges. Then his son dies and the old girl hung on to the age of 121yrs, at that time the oldest person in France. The family finally got the property but they'd by then paid over 4 times the market value.


Caveat Emptor! Link here:
https://www.century21.fr/trouver_logement/detail/1386147300/?utm_source=CRITEO&utm_medium=Retargeting&utm_campaign=filrouge

I wonder if we could eventually sell on our sevens like this...

Location: Gard, France 30960. Used to be Languedoc-Roussillon but now it's Occitanie

This is a bit like the old joke of the Russian farmer looking for a suitably equipped wife - Send photo of tractor...

In this case, Send photo of couple.

Just thinking it through - How many metres is it from the top floor windows to the very hard ground below?

Location: North Herts

3 car garage - tempting...

Ahhh.
If only.
But would we be able to stay more than 2 years??

Location: Bristol

Reckers, I guess they are getting in early before FREXIT.

Afterwards they will be lucky to get £100k and 50 centimes a week

Tony.

Location: Huncote on the pig

more importantly, have the old biddies got any Austin Septs in their triple garaging?

I have the answer to the old couple problem - mushrooms. A man once told me he'd survived three wives - the first died after eating poisonous mushrooms and, would you believe, so did the second wife. The third wife died from a fractured skull - she wouldn't eat her mushrooms. (Apologies Auntie, It's just an old joke). Cheers, Bill

Location: Euroa, Australia

Labelling the doors to the balcony WC may suffice.

Topic way off Sevens but as with all the French interludes very interesting.
From a country where nothing is old I was intrigued by buildings in UK (didn’t make Europe) although the multi storey piles of perilously stacked stones and bricks a distinct worry.
How old would such a chateau be? Are the turrets just a fashion statement ?

Faced here now with enormous cost for safety scaffolding for once simple spouting, it seems the chateau owners had the same problem.

I have spent the last few weeks sorting and dumping my hoard of (mostly not Seven) car parts. Glad I do not have a chateau full. How long will cyl liners last as field tiles?

Location: Auckland, NZ

The interior doesn't look so bad, except the tower shot looking up or down? It reminds me of RL Stevenson's, "Kidnapped" where the protagonist is urged by his uncle to go up the tower stairs to bed, only to find the stairs end, with a long drop. I guess you could use it to dry your fire hoses, or make bird shot or...

Location: Sunny Seattle

According to my sources in the Résistance (listen very carefully I shall say this only once)apparently the old guy had a dicky ticquer.

Location: Gard, France 30960. Used to be Languedoc-Roussillon but now it's Occitanie

Does it come with an old dog that lies in the sun by the gate only raising its head when a Citroen DS trundles past?

If so, I know the place...

My dear boy, a Citroën DS doesn't trundle. It wafts.

Location: Gard, France 30960. Used to be Languedoc-Roussillon but now it's Occitanie