Apartment living can be a more affordable first rung on the ladder for savvy first home buyers or first time investors and the returns aren't only in equity, but lifestyle and location. So here our are our Top 8 Questions to ask before you buy.

L’Agence is a Netflix reality series about the Parisian so-awesome-you-wanna-be-adopted-by-them Kretz family, who runs a real estate agence (French for agency) out of their modest home — (a 1930s Art Deco mansion in Boulogne) — selling luxury properties to high-flyer clientele (that’s fancy France-Land talk for ‘customer’). The genuine love and affection they have is evident in the constant ribbing and teasing they all fling at one another. It is intoxicating. It’ll make you look at your own family with deep disappointment.