Bernard
Hôtel de Ville, Paris, under a blue sky

Bernard Burch · Paris since 2013

Move to Paris.
Then live here.

I help people find the apartment, open the bank account, get through the paperwork, and fall for the city the way I did.

50+

Apartment leases signed

96%

Applications accepted

50+

Clients relocated

FR

Fluent, at the viewings

1 The route · Direction : chez vous
Hop on at any stop
First call
Apartment search
Dossier & lease
Bank & utilities
Paperwork
Home

Three lines.
One destination.

All services →
1

Apartment search

Dossier, viewings, and an advocate landlords listen to. 50+ apartment leases signed so far.

Ride line 1 →
Paris rooftops under a cloudy sky
2

Home setup

Bank account, electricity, gas, internet, insurance: switched on, in French, for you.

Ride line 2 →
A bright Paris apartment with tall windows
3

Bureaucracy navigation

Appointments, documents, the mairie, the gestionnaire. I'll be next to you, speaking French.

Ride line 3 →
The Hôtel-Dieu entrance in Paris, carved with Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

Rather do it yourself?

Paris
Discovered™

The complete guide to moving to, and living in, Paris. Thirty chapters of everything I'd tell you over coffee, in the order you'll need them.

The Paris Discovered guide open on a tablet, at its contents page

My Paris

Here are a few of my favorite photos I've taken and put on Instagram.

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A hot-air balloon and a Ferris wheel over Paris at dusk The Conciergerie lit up at night Les Invalides lit in red at night A rainbow banner reading Paris est fière A Paris restaurant glowing red inside A formal garden in Paris Paris rooftops seen from above A Paris métro platform
A Paris café terrace under green awnings

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Bernard Burch in a cathedral, in front of its rose window
Paris depuis 2013
“ Bonjour!

Don't listen to people who say the French are rude and unfriendly. To that I say, horse merde!

My first steps in Paris were in 1985. After 20 years of “threatening” to move here, I finally did it in 2013 with only two suitcases to my name… and have never regretted it. A couple years later, I married a French man and that was the cherry on the cake.

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1 Ligne 1 · Direction : chez vous
First call
Apartment search
Dossier & lease
Bank & utilities
Paperwork
Home

Next stop: Paris.

Tell me where you are in the move. I'll tell you what comes next.