Claire first lived on the French Riviera (in Nice Old Town) during her University year abroad in 1989 when she arrived in Nice to study French literature at the Faculté des Lettres.

It was a case of love at first sight and after graduating she moved back down to the Riviera to teach English for two years. This was followed by further study at Oxford University and a four year stint in a London secondary school teaching French whilst developing properties in her spare time - a very busy time indeed, but it instilled a love of the property market and a firm understanding of the investment potential offered by a good property in a top location - knowledge which she is now able to use daily with her Attika clients.

Nice, however, was constantly beckoning -  every holiday was spent on the Côte d'Azur until in 2000 Claire decided that the Riviera was definitely where she wanted to be. In April of that year she made the permanent move, selling her London properties and buying her first Riviera home in one of the hills of Nice West.

She founded Attika shortly afterwards with Judith Halmshaw and over time they have opened offices in Cannes for both sales and rentals and now their main Nice office is open, housing their Nice resale team and their New Build Department.

Claire is proud that Attika has become a highly-respected agency amongst both overseas and French property-seekers and is certain that it is the company's focus on customer service that has gained them such a good reputation. The Attika team really listen to their customers and never try to show properties that don't match all of their client's criteria - there's no point in wasting time when there are so many perfect properties out there - and it's our job to find them !

Claire now lives in Nice's Carré d'Or and knows every area of Nice thoroughly -as well as every aspect of the Niçois property market, so if you need advice on any particular quartier then please do not hesitate to contact her or indeed any member of the Nice team !

If you would like to contact Claire then please contact her at the Nice Office:

Nice Office:18 Rue Lamartine, 06000 Nice. France.

Tel: +33(0)4 93 16 95 81
Fax: 33 (0)4 89 83 01 54

claire@attikainternational.com