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Annecy · From abroad
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, here conducts the purchase of a property in Annecy from abroad: Geneva and its airport thirty minutes away, remote viewings, power of attorney, and the strategy on a tight market. France places no restriction on foreign buyers: the difficulty is logistical, never legal.
Updated on 19 October 2026
A first confidential conversation, with no commitment
01From abroad
Annecy enjoys first-rate international access: Geneva airport, about forty-five kilometres or thirty minutes away, serves more than one hundred destinations worldwide. Lyon Saint-Exupéry completes the picture at about ninety minutes by road. Few lakeside towns offer such a connection.
For a buyer steering from abroad, Swiss cross-border or international, that proximity changes everything: a targeted weekend trip suffices to view a prepared shortlist.
Rhône-Alpes - Annecy - The boats and bell towers of old Annecy
02From abroad
The difficulty of a remote purchase is never the welcome: Annecy is international by its clientele as by its schools. The difficulty is the pace: on a tight market, rightly priced properties leave fast, and waterside homes almost never appear in listings.
That is the work of a buyer-side finder: upstream watch, qualifying each property as soon as it surfaces, sometimes before, on file then on a video viewing, ruling out what does not hold, and negotiating on comparable sales. A power of attorney lets you sign without travelling; nothing replaces criteria held at every step by a finder who works for you alone.
A written brief, continuous watch, reports: the search runs from your time zone.
A weekend through Geneva: the only step that requires your presence, shortlist in hand.
Power of attorney at the notary’s or a final trip: both work, foreign file prepared upstream.
03From abroad
Annecy lives and trades year-round: spring, March to June, and the September rentrée are the densest windows. The winter brief prepares the spring shortlist. For the taxation of your country of residence, cross-border workers included, your notary and a tax adviser take over: another trade.
A buyer’s agent answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.
On the ground
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.
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.
Surveys, co-ownership rules, easements, local building specifics: every document is checked before you commit.
Both are billed only if the property is found and the purchase completed.
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
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 offerIn the same dossier
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Yes, with no restriction: France imposes no nationality or residency condition on the buyer. The specifics lie elsewhere: financing from abroad, country-of-residence taxation, inheritance. The difficulty is logistical, never legal.
As from any foreign country, with a neighbour’s advantage: Geneva and its airport are thirty minutes away, easing viewings and follow-up. The search runs remotely through your finder, trips are targeted, and a power of attorney lets you sign without travelling.
Spring, March to June, and the September rentrée: the densest windows of a market that lives year-round. For a remote buyer, preparation starts in winter: brief, watch, shortlist, spring trip.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Annecy, 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
A first confidential conversation, with no commitment. A buyer’s agent answers within one working day.
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