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Property type · Marseille

Buy a bastide in Marseille

Marseille’s merchants scattered their bastides, their country houses, across the farmland around the city: façades with génoise cornices, plane trees, ornamental pools and parks, today in Saint-Barnabé, Les Caillols, Château-Gombert or Sainte-Marguerite. They rarely list; Home Select hunts them and brings you over only for the decisive viewings.

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The essentials

Home Select, buyer’s agent in Marseille, searches for bastides exclusively on the buyer’s behalf. The DVF register does not single out this type of property: it counts it among houses, whose median stands at €4,600/m² over the 12 months to end of June 2026 (1,467 sales), a benchmark that the address, the floor area, the land and the condition move. Home Select opens access to off-market properties, with fees 100% on success.

On the ground

The bastide market in Marseille, in figures

A bastide for sale in Marseille reads on the house median of the survey, €4,600/m² over the 12 months to end of June 2026, as a benchmark: the DVF register does not tell it apart from villas and town houses, and its value lies in the park, the calm, the outbuildings and the condition of the building. A restored bastide in its park trades case by case, above it; many have been divided, and a unit in a shared bastide reads differently.

The city has grown around them: a bastide is also judged by its surroundings, its access, the planning rules on its park and its rights of way. Who buys: Marseille families who want space without leaving the city, business leaders, Paris families three hours away by TGV. Home Select checks every document of the file before you commit; have the restoration priced by an architect before the offer.

On the ground

What your budget buys as a bastide in Marseille

approx. 180 m²
€830,000
approx. 250 m²
€1,150,000
approx. 350 m²
€1,610,000

Orders of magnitude calculated on the DVF median for the 12 months to end of June 2026, excluding land, view or condition.

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Where exactly, in Marseille and around?

Saint-Barnabé, Les Caillols and Saint-Julien, to the east (€3,400/m²); Château-Gombert, to the north, between hills and the technology park (€2,200/m²); Sainte-Marguerite and Mazargues, to the south (€3,200/m²); Allauch and Plan-de-Cuques, at the foot of the Étoile hills (€5,000/m²).

On the ground

Why use a buyer’s agent for your bastide in Marseille?

The best addresses never list

On this market, a share of the sought-after properties sells before publication, between families and through notaires and local networks. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day from its network of 15,000 partners.

You only view the essential

Every lead is verified and priced for you before you travel, on file then on a video viewing: you view only the shortlisted properties, your decisive viewings grouped into a single trip. Home Select then defends your offer, with a complete file and the actual sales of the area in hand.

The building audited before you commit

Surveys, co-ownership rules, easements, local building specifics: every document is checked before you commit.

One method, two ways in

Both are billed only if the property is found and the purchase completed. On top comes 10% of the negotiated reduction: Home Select is also paid on what you save.

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Exclusive

Exclusive search mandate

2.5% of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT + 10% of the negotiated reduction

The full service, for every budget: brief, sourcing, off-market, pre-visits, negotiation and follow-through to the notary signing.

The Exclusive offer
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Confidentielle

Simple search mandate

1.5% of the net purchase price, projects from €2M + 10% of the negotiated reduction

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.

The Confidential offer

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Frequently asked questions

Buying a bastide in Marseille: your questions

A whole bastide or a unit in one in Marseille?

The whole bastide gives the park, the outbuildings and control of every decision, at the cost of a stately home’s upkeep; a unit in a divided bastide gives the volumes and a shared garden within a co-ownership, for a more contained budget. The first trades above the house median, €4,600/m² over the 12 months to end of June 2026; the second reads according to its size and outdoor space.

What should be checked before buying a bastide in Marseille?

The roof and the génoise cornice, the timber frame, damp, networks and sanitation, the trees and protected areas of the park, access and rights of way, the surroundings, and the planning rules that say what can or cannot be built. Home Select checks every document before you commit and tells you what the listing does not say.

What does a bastide in Marseille cost?

No public statistic singles out this type of property: the DVF register counts it among houses, whose median stands at €4,600/m² across 1,467 sales recorded over the 12 months to end of June 2026 (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026). It is a reading benchmark, not an appraisal: the address, the floor area, the land, the view and the condition make the price of each property, and Home Select documents it sale by sale before any offer.

How long does it take to buy in Marseille with a buyer’s agent?

The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Marseille and on your availability: Home Select frames it at the brief, then holds it. Properties are first seen on video, and your decisive viewings are grouped into a single trip.

How do you reach off-market properties in Marseille?

Through the network and direct approach: Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In Marseille, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Roucas-Blanc, Endoume and Bompard (7th), then Périer, Prado, Carré d’Or (8th). That is often where the unfindable property is.

What are your fees for buying a bastide in Marseille?

Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Marseille, charges 2.5% of the net purchase price (minimum €10,000 incl. VAT) on the Exclusive offer, or 1.5% on the Confidential offer for projects of €2m and above, plus 10% of the negotiated reduction in both cases. Home Select is paid on success only, and also on what you save: nothing is due until you have bought.

What happens next

  1. A buyer’s agent reads your request and answers within one working day.
  2. A first confidential conversation: how you will use the property, the real budget, the non-negotiable criteria, the timing.
  3. A written brief, and a search started within the week. Nothing is due until you have bought.

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