Buy a house in Provence

It depends on the life you want there. To live all year, the Aix countryside, Marseille and La Ciotat offer schools, jobs, TGV stations and an airport, with a median house price of €6,000/m² in Aix-en-Provence; for a second home, the Luberon, the Alpilles and the Var coast are the most sought-after. Home Select helps you choose the area before the house: no decision weighs more, on daily life or on resale.

A bastide is a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century manor house, built by Aix and Marseille families in the middle of their estates, with an ordered façade and an avenue of plane trees. A mas is a farmhouse, enlarged over the generations, facing south and closed to the mistral, mostly in the Alpilles and the Luberon. A village house, tall and narrow, presses against its neighbours in the heart of the village.

A little away from the famous addresses. Over 12 months to end of June 2026, the median house sold for €2,900/m² in the Vaucluse and €2,500/m² in Avignon; east of Aix, Trets (€4,200/m²) and Peynier (€4,200/m²) remain well below Aix-en-Provence, with the Sainte-Victoire on the horizon.

On the coast, from Marseille to Sanary-sur-Mer. Over 12 months to end of June 2026, the median house sold for €5,900/m² in La Ciotat, €6,200/m² in Sanary-sur-Mer and €6,800/m² in Bandol, with Cassis higher still; in Marseille, one house in ten sold for more than €8,900/m², on the corniche and in the southern districts. Home Select checks every view from the house itself.

The building first: roof, timbers, cracks linked to clay soils, damp in stone walls, heating that is often original. Then the land: private drainage, access to water, rights of way, wildfire or flood risk. Finally planning: every extension, pool or outbuilding must have its permit. These points are checked on paper before any offer; have an architect or builder price the works.

In towns exposed to forest fires, which are numerous in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Var and the Vaucluse, owners must clear brush around their house, usually over fifty metres, even onto a neighbour’s land if the zone reaches it. Home Select checks the exposure of the house, the state of the clearance, access for the fire services and the risk prevention plan, which can restrict works.

Yes. France sets no nationality or residency condition on buying a home, and British, American and European buyers purchase in Provence every year. The process is the same as for a French buyer, and you can sign through a power of attorney. Home Select runs the search remotely and groups your viewings into one trip.

Yes, because the finest houses are rarely advertised, and those that are often leave out what matters: a road behind the hedge, a pool without a permit, unbuildable land, a crack freshly painted over. A buyer’s agent works for you alone, on the buyer’s side, from shortlisting to negotiation. Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Provence, 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 Provence ranged from €2,500/m² in Avignon to €9,300/m² in Cassis. Bouches-du-Rhône: €4,100/m² median for houses, over 8,730 sales. Vaucluse: €2,900/m² median for houses, over 4,665 sales. Var: €4,200/m² median for houses, over 8,948 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: Cassis and Eygalières. That is often where the unfindable property is.

Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Provence, 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.