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Marseille · From abroad
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent in Provence, here conducts the purchase of a property in Marseille from abroad: how to come, how to view remotely, when to offer, and who prepares the files. France places no restriction on foreign buyers: the difficulty is logistical, never legal.
Updated on 15 October 2026
A first confidential conversation, with no commitment
01From abroad
Marseille is one of the easiest southern French cities to reach from abroad: Marseille Provence airport, France’s third, is about twenty-five minutes from the centre and serves more than one hundred and twenty destinations to thirty-three countries, from Northern Europe to the Gulf hubs. The TGV puts Paris at three hours.
For a buyer steering from abroad, that ease of access changes everything: a targeted two-day viewing trip becomes realistic, from Roucas to Le Panier, and so does attending the signing.
Provence - Marseille - The Vallon des Auffes
02From abroad
The difficulty of a remote purchase is never the welcome: Marseille is a worldly city, the administration is used to foreign files and bilingual services are common. The difficulty is the sorting: how to choose a property you have not visited, in a city where two streets do not compare, without paying the tourists’ price.
That is precisely the work of a buyer-side finder: qualifying each property on file then on a video viewing, ruling out what does not hold, seafront co-ownership, diagnostics, charges, seller’s situation, keeping only the properties that deserve your trip, 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, a reporting cadence, filmed or live viewings: the search runs from your time zone.
Two days in Marseille to view the shortlist and choose the district: the only step that requires your presence, and it is prepared.
Power of attorney at the notary’s or a final trip: both work, with the foreign file prepared upstream.
03From abroad
Activity concentrates between March and July, then in September and October after the summer truce: those are the windows where character supply moves fast. For a remote buyer, May-June and September offer the best balance of choice and calm.
The winning sequence is prepared against the calendar: brief in winter, shortlist in spring, targeted trip, signing in autumn. And for the taxation of your country of residence, your notary and a tax adviser take over: that is another trade, which Home Select does not mix with the search.
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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 offerYes, with no restriction: France imposes no nationality or residency condition on the buyer of a property. The specifics lie elsewhere: financing from abroad, the taxation of your country of residence and inheritance rules. The difficulty of buying in Marseille from abroad is logistical, never legal.
Yes: a power of attorney at the notary’s lets you sign without being present, and viewings happen remotely, by video call or on video, steered by your finder. Home Select’s recommendation remains a targeted two-day trip to choose the district and view the shortlist: the only step that requires your presence, and it decides everything else.
Through a finder who vets it for you, on file then on a video viewing, with your criteria and not a seller’s: technical condition, diagnostics, co-ownership charges, minutes, salt-spray exposure on the seafront, and comparable sector sales for the price. Home Select conducts this vetting in Marseille for clients steering from abroad.
The one that follows your preparation: in Marseille, supply is broad all year, but the characterful properties of the sought-after districts, from Endoume to Roucas-Blanc, go as soon as they appear. For a remote buyer, May-June and September combine wider choice and calmer viewings. The calendar is prepared in reverse: brief in winter, shortlist in spring.
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.
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