Portes Ouvertes

Full marks to ERA Beaubourg for something (slightly) innovative. I've been wondering for some time why the agencies here don't do the Open House style property viewing as in the UK and USA.

ERA recently organised a Portes Ouvertes where more than 120 apartments (under their exclusive mandat) were open to interested buyers to visit over a Saturday.

I'm glad they were brave enough to get the project off the ground. My theory about why nobody was doing it was agencies would always be terrified that 90% of the "interested parties" would be rivals looking to cosy up to the vendor and tempt them over to their own agency.

Thomas Veyrard, pictured above. Looks like a Mills & Boon style hero to boot.