We were recently at the notaire for the first signing of a property. When looking at houses I wasn't actually looking for something with rental possibilities. However, the place that we are in the process of purchasing has an old building that could become a nice 3 bed house. (Needs total renovation) And because it is in such a beautiful location, my thoughts have now been turning towards eventually turning this into a gite. Note that it would be at least 5 years before that becomes reality as there are some other things that we want to do first and that we won't be there full time at first.

For rentals, I presume that it would be better to have a registered business. Can we easily do this at a later stage and transfer the gite to the business, or should I see to it now, before the purchase is finalised? I realise of course that there is a possibility that we startt a business and then never actually rent out the gite.