Three generations succeed each other at the head of the company in this small town in Lot-et-Garonne

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It's a family business passed down from generation to generation. At the Figuès real estate agency in Lavardac (Lot-et-Garonne), the family has been advising sellers and buyers for more than 50 years.

Jacques, Jean-Pierre, Marie-Christine and now Audrey, the granddaughter, are working to keep this going an activity started in the 1970s.

A family business in Albret since 1970

Jacques Figuès installs his first real estate agencyin 1970, in Lavardac. A graduate of the Bido rugby club, it was his club president, Maitre Catonnet, then a notary in Bruch, who encouraged him to get into real estate.

Paid advice, Jacques succeeds in his establishment in Lavardac, a new innovative service in the territory of Albret. In 1987, he opened a second agency, in Nérac, in 1987. The first to join him was his sonJean-Pierre, first as an employee before taking the agency on his own in 2002.

In Lavardac, it is the turn of his daughter Marie-Christine to join the agency in 2011, employed for 3 years then self-employed from 2015. Two independent agencies, brother and sister manage their own property.

50 years of experience

Since October, it has been Audreythe granddaughter of Jacques who joined the Lavardacaise agency alongside her mother and two other employees, Florence Maza and Muriel Pagnoncelli. Not a little proud to see his granddaughter take up the torch againr, Jacques found the best formula to summarize the evolution of the real estate market. “ I started with Minitel, my children developed the computer version of real estate, Audrey added social networks » .

To succeed and last, you must have real estate linked to the body, expertise in the field and great interpersonal skills. “Locally we are known and recognized. This longevity reassures the client, 50 years of real estate transactions give us considerable experience. The FNAIM brand is also a guarantee of seriousness.”

A family that has business acumen but also adaptability. Between the real estate crisis, Covid, fluctuating rates, multiplication of agents, the agencies are still there and there.

Jacques can now enjoy his retirement peacefully, encourage the guys at Bido and indulge in his other passion, hunting.

With Christelle Lapeyre.

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