Property finder in France · since 2011
Entrust the search to Home Select, keep the essential: choosing. The firm finds, verifies, negotiates and secures, from the first viewing to the handover of the keys.
Welcome to Home Select
I founded Home Select in Paris in 2011 with one conviction: buyers deserve the same level of service as sellers.
Fifteen years, 1,200 buyers guided and a 4.8/5 rating on Google later, Home Select brings the method forged on the densest, most contested market in France to your region. Home Select works with a network of 15,000 agents, notaries and managing agents: your dedicated finder sets your brief, activates that network, taps the off-market, pre-visits, negotiates, then stays with you through to the notaire signing, in full confidentiality. A member of the Federation of Property Hunters, the firm works entirely on success: nothing until you hold your keys.
Method
Every step is optimised, from qualifying your project to the handover of the keys.
Everything starts with a thorough conversation: the use of the property, the real budget, the non-negotiable criteria, the calendar. This written framing becomes the roadmap of the hunt, and avoids the months lost viewing beside the point.
Home Select covers the whole market: published listings, and above all what is never displayed anywhere. Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.
Every lead is verified, visited or analysed for you: commented video, technical sheet, first figures. You only travel for properties that truly match the brief.
The offer is drafted and defended by Home Select, complete file in hand. The negotiation covers the price, but also the conditions, the timelines and the works revealed.
Preliminary contract read line by line, surveys, co-ownership rules, charges, easements: every document is checked before you commit. Local points of vigilance, from the coast to the mountains, are in Home Select’s checklists.
Home Select stays by your side through to the signing before the notaire, and after: contractors, formalities, moving. Its work ends when you are settled in, not when the deed is signed.
The result is measurable: Home Select completes a search in 3 viewings, 45 days and about fifteen hours of your time on average, against 40+ viewings, six months and 150 hours for a search undertaken alone.
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Thank you Catherine and Home Select for what we call the Extra Mile in the United States: explaining the French system, helping us organise the works... It was great.
Recherche depuis l’étranger
Super expérience avec Home Select. Le professionnalisme, la disponibilité et l’écoute client de Gwenaelle nous ont permis de trouver un appartement en 2 mois. Son accompagnement et ses conseils ont été clés et parfaitement adaptés pour une recherche à l’international depuis Chicago. Nous recommandons vivement ses services.
Trouvé en 3 mois après 18 mois seuls
Nous à été très très satisfaits des services de Sophie. Elle a été efficace, disponible, et très fine pour sentir précisément nos besoins et envies. Grâce à elle, nous avons réalisé un achat qui nous va, et nous avons trouvé en 3 mois alors que nous cherchions depuis 1 an et demi. Un très très grand merci et nous vous la recommandons chaleureusement !
Acheteur basé en province
Basé en province, l’accompagnement pour ma recherche d’un appartement a été à la hauteur de mes attentes : écoute, réactivité, disponibilité et tout cela sans pression. Merci Catherine..
I turned to HOME SELECT because I had tried to find my apartment myself by going round the agencies, which proved impossible.
Après huit mois seuls, une semaine
Nous avons fait appel à Catherine après plus de 8 mois de recherche infructueuse seuls, et ça a été la meilleure décision que nous aurions pu prendre. En à peine une semaine, elle nous a trouvé l’appartement idéal, et notre offre a été acceptée malgré plusieurs dossiers en concurrence. Catherine a été d’un professionnalisme remarquable, toujours disponible, à l’écoute, réactive et rassurante tout au long du processus d’achat. Nous la recommandons chaleureusement.
Un suivi qui dure après la signature
Super expérience avec Anne ! appartement remplissant les critères trouvé rapidement et , surtout, accompagnement et vrai suivi même après la signature de l’acte definitif Nous recommandons vivement
La maison de famille, enfin
Après de longs mois de recherches, nous avons trouvé LA maison que nous cherchions pour notre famille grâce à Véronique. Sa disponibilité, sa compréhension de nos critères et son travail avec l’agent immobilier en charge de la vente nous ont permis d’aller jusqu’au bout du projet. Nous sommes ravis !
Thanks to Véronique and her knowledge of the area, not only were we able to view properties first, but we bought with complete peace of mind. We were supported at every step.
The cities
Île-de-France Paris Home Select was born here in 2011: fifteen years of hunting on the most demanding market in France. 
Provence Marseille €3,200/m² Roucas-Blanc and Endoume (7th), Périer, Prado, Carré d’Or (8th)... 
Côte d’Azur Nice €4,800/m² Cimiez, Mont Boron... 
Normandy Deauville €6,700/m² The golden triangle of Deauville, Seafront and Les Planches... 
Rhône-Alpes Lyon €4,400/m² Ainay and the Presqu’île (2nd), Foch, Tête d’Or (6th)... 
Atlantic Coast Bordeaux €4,100/m² Triangle d’Or and Jardin Public, Les Chartrons... 
Provence Aix-en-Provence €4,800/m² Mazarin quarter, Old centre and Cours Mirabeau... 
Basque Country Biarritz €7,000/m² Impératrice, Saint-Charles and Les Halles, Côte des Basques and Beaurivage... Tailor-made
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Home Select’s reference pages: Property finder in Marseille Property finder in Aix-en-Provence Property finder in Lyon Property finder in Bordeaux Property finder in Nice
The two offers
Both are billed only if the property is found and the purchase completed. Nothing is due upfront, nothing during the search.
Exclusive search mandate
2.5% of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT
The full service, for every budget: brief, sourcing, off-market, pre-visits, negotiation and follow-through to the notary signing.
Fees in detail
Simple search mandate
1.5% of the net purchase price, projects from €2M
The very same full service, on a selection made exclusively of off-market properties. For buyers who never want to see their search on a portal.
Off-market search
Comparison
Averages observed across 1,200+ completed purchases since 2011
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Frequently asked questions
They work for the buyer, never for the seller: framing the project, monitoring the whole market including off-list, qualified shortlisting and viewings, negotiation, guidance through to the notaire. Home Select only has you view the essential: 3 viewings on average instead of 40. The profession is regulated by the Hoguet law and requires a professional T card: the one Home Select has held since 2011 covers the whole of France.
Every city where Home Select hunts has its dedicated page, from Nice to the île de Ré and from Megève to Biarritz, arranged by area: Provence, Côte d’Azur, Alps, Rhône-Alpes, Basque Country, Atlantic Coast, Occitanie, Brittany, Normandy. Paris and Île-de-France are served by Home Select’s dedicated website, homeselect.paris. Any other city is handled tailor-made, with the same method: Home Select brings in its national desk and its 15,000 partners.
Home Select charges 2.5% of the net purchase price with the Exclusive offer (minimum €10,000 incl. VAT), or 1.5% with the Confidential offer reserved for projects of €2m and above. 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought. Every figure is published on the fees page: a transparency that is rare on this market, and deliberate.
Home Select takes a search from the brief to the authentic deed in 45 days on average, against roughly six months for a search undertaken alone. Home Select has you view only 3 properties on average instead of more than 40, and you give your project about fifteen hours of your time instead of 150: the preparation, the monitoring and the screening viewings are the firm’s work, not yours.
A share of Home Select’s clients live abroad or far from their search area, and the method is the same for everyone: briefing by video call, every lead checked and viewed for you, commented video and technical sheet before any travel. You only travel for the shortlisted properties, and a notarised power of attorney even allows you to sign without coming. The buying remotely guide details the journey step by step.
Through the network: Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day, before they go on sale, from its 15,000 professional partners (agents, notaires, managing agents and property traders). These properties never appear on the portals: selling them discreetly suits the seller, buying them without competition suits the buyer. The off-market page details the system and the Confidential offer built entirely around it.
Home Select negotiates 6% on average off the asking price, measured across 1,200+ completed purchases since 2011. The negotiation covers the price, but also the conditions, the timelines and the works revealed, and it rests on real comparables documented in the offer file. On a property at €800,000, the 6% Home Select secures on average represents €48,000: the negotiation most often funds the search itself.
The estate agent holds a sales mandate: they represent the seller and defend their price. The property finder holds a search mandate: they represent the buyer and defend the buyer’s interest, from the price to the conditional clauses of the preliminary contract. The two professions are complementary, their interests are opposed. Home Select has only ever worked on the buyer’s side, since 2011.
Yes, through a dedicated website: homeselect.paris. Home Select was born there in 2011 and now has 16 finders covering 68 towns across Île-de-France. The search engine on this page sends Parisian and Île-de-France queries straight to it.
Yes, entirely. No file fees, no deposit, no subscription: the full fee is due on the day of the signature before the notaire, and if no property is bought, nothing is due. That is the rule of both offers, Exclusive and Confidential alike, written black on white in the search mandate.
A specific question? Call Home Select on 01 78 76 78 10
Tailor-made buying
The finest properties change hands discreetly. Home Select gives you access to them.
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