Buy a house in the Alpes-Maritimes, on the French Riviera

Valbonne, Biot, Roquefort-les-Pins and Mougins surround the park: over 12 months to end of June 2026, the median house sold for €7,300/m² in Valbonne and €6,500/m² in Roquefort-les-Pins. Valbonne offers the village and the international schools, Roquefort-les-Pins more land under the pines, Biot the sea close by through Antibes. Home Select helps you weigh commute, school and land.

Away from the seafront and the best-known villages. Over 12 months to end of June 2026, the median house sold for €4,800/m² in Grasse, €5,400/m² in Vence and €5,400/m² in Saint-Laurent-du-Var. At these prices a house often needs work, which Home Select costs before you offer; a house in the Var also widens the field.

In towns exposed to forest fires, owners must clear brush over fifty metres around their house, a distance the mayor can raise to a hundred metres, and along the access drive, even onto a neighbour’s land if needed. A neglected plot exposes you to a fine, and your insurer can raise the excess after a fire. Look at the state of the land, and what its upkeep will cost, before you offer.

The seller must give you a hazard report stating whether the house falls under a risk prevention plan, for flooding, forest fire or ground movement, and giving its seismic zone. In the Alpes-Maritimes, the Brague and the Siagne burst their banks in October 2015, and Storm Alex devastated the Roya and Vésubie valleys in October 2020. Home Select reads these documents with you before any offer.

Not if the system complies: in the hills, many houses have a septic tank or a small treatment plant. The seller must provide an inspection by the public sanitation service carried out within the last three years; if it finds the system non-compliant, the buyer has one year after the sale to carry out the works. Have a contractor price the work before you commit.

Often, if the local zoning plan allows it, which it does not in protected woodland or in the red zone of a risk prevention plan. A pool over 10 m² needs a prior declaration and one over 100 m² a full building permit, and a slope calls for retaining walls, sometimes a soil survey. Home Select has these points checked before the offer and, where needed, makes the purchase conditional on the permit.

On the heights: La Turbie, Èze, Beausoleil and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin surround the Principality, and houses in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin sold at a median of €13,100/m² over 12 months to end of June 2026. They are scarce, since Beausoleil sells mostly apartments, and the view of the Rock sets the price. Home Select also searches off-market there, as fine houses often change hands without a listing.

Nothing requires it, but an inland house often hides what the listing leaves out: overdue brush clearance, a non-compliant septic tank, an extension without a permit, a plot in a red zone. A buyer’s agent works for you alone, on the buyer’s side, from shortlisting to negotiation. Home Select, a buyer’s agent on the French Riviera, adds its network of 15,000 agents and professional partners and fees due on success only.

Over 12 months to end of June 2026, the median price per square metre of houses in the Alpes-Maritimes ranged from €4,800/m² in Grasse to €37,400/m² in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Alpes-Maritimes: €5,500/m² median for houses, over 4,000 sales (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026). Home Select reads these figures street by street before any offer: view, land and condition make most of the price.

The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in {nom} 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.

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 {nom}, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. That is often where the unfindable property is.

Home Select, a buyer’s agent in the Alpes-Maritimes, 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.