You must pay the following fees to the notary’s office that draws up the purchase deed: 
 
>> Notary’s fees

>> Cost of publication at the mortgage office

>> Registration duty (or “conveyance fees”) paid to the Treasury:
Rate of registration duty: 4.80 % (on the purchase amount paid for land and buildings).
  
>> Other possible costs
Costs linked to the drawing up of rural leases or the constitution of a company if done by the notary.

If you want to set up in France with other members of your family, you could consider setting up a company known as a Groupement Foncier Agricole (G.F.A), which enables you to purchase the farm with several others.
A G.F.A comprises individuals who join together and who may be the future farmer as well as non-farming contributors of capital.
 
You each hold shares and the G.F.A. owns the property.
The G.F.A can then rent the land to you, it is subject to the status of leased property. 
 

Advantages of setting up a G.F.A

You facilitate take over by lightening the financial burden (profitability of your project). You may then envisage gradually buying back shares from non-farming partners.

Non-farming members of your family buy the property with you.

As a farmer you can benefit from a long-term lease through the G.F.A.: you are both the farmer and a partner in the G.F.A
 
For more information and to help you make the right choice:
Consult local legal departments or contact us and we will put you in contact with the right departments!

For young farmers, there is a preferential regime for conveyance duties.

There are legal forms that enable you to set up whilst deferring acquisition of the property such as “sellers-credit” (or “sale by credit”): the sale is completed on the date of signature (transfer of property takes place), but the owner has a secured debt in the official deed of sale (he has the guarantee over the property).
This is a situation that is different:
- from “rental for sale” or “leases of convenience” (rental with sale in the long term)
- leasing (contract with a company that buys the farm and rents it out to a Young Farmer, at the end of the lease, the Young Farmer purchases the farm = purchase option)

In cases of take over of financially “heavy” farms, SAFER can find a capital contributor who buys and commits to renting the property to you.