Buying property in Courchevel from abroad

For a non-resident buyer, everything turns on altitude and access to the slopes: between 1300 and 1850, real use, atmosphere and budget have nothing in common. It is the first trade-off to settle, before even the type of property, and it is badly settled from afar, on photographs: each altitude is a market, with its buyers, its products and its own logic of value.

Méribel and the Trois Vallées extend the search when the project lends itself to it: the same ski area, with different values. Home Select searches the altitudes in parallel and weighs the choice with you according to use, weeks of presence, skiing, family, rather than the prestige of the address.

The difficulty of buying in Courchevel from abroad is never the law: no nationality or residency condition applies to buying in France. The difficulty is the sorting, on a market where the large chalets are negotiated off market, file by file, and where a few dozen metres of return on skis change the value of a property. How do you buy a house in Courchevel you have never visited? That is the work of Home Select, which works for the buyer alone, with a search steered by Home Select’s management.

The brief is set by video call or by telephone. Each property is qualified on documents: diagnostics, risk report, residence leases and charges, building rights, the seller’s situation. Pre-viewings are done on video, steered by Home Select with the seller’s agent, the return from the slopes included. The price is checked against comparable DVF sales at the chosen altitude. Only the properties that deserve your trip remain: a single journey, grouping the decisive viewings. On the legal side, the diagnostics are the seller’s responsibility, an offer accompanied by a deposit is void, and you have a ten-day cooling-off period after the sale agreement. The taxation of your country of residence and inheritance are matters for the notary and a tax adviser.

The season runs from early December to late April. The market, for its part, has two windows: autumn, from September to November, for a property ready before winter, and spring, from April to June, once the season is over. Many of the homes for sale in Courchevel that matter change hands without a listing: Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day, monitors 1,700 listing sites and relies on a network of 15,000 partners to see what will never be published.

For a remote buyer, the rule is to take position early: a ready file, financing from abroad and acquisition structure settled with the notary, weighs more than a quick offer in February. The decisive trip is set on your criterion, winter for access to the slopes, the off-season for the calm, and a power of attorney lets you sign without coming back. Home Select charges its fees 100% on success, nothing is owed before the deed: the Exclusive offer at 2.5% incl. VAT of the net seller price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT, or, for a project of €2m and above, the Confidential offer at 1.5% incl. VAT of the net seller price, the same full service, off-market properties only.