Buying property in Mougins from abroad

The difficulty of a remote purchase is not the welcome, it is the sorting: in Mougins, the best-placed villas, between the village and the golf course, often sell before any listing. Home Select works Mougins remotely, for the buyer’s sole account. Everything starts with a brief set by video call or by phone: use, floor area, village or pine woods, tolerance for works, budget.

Home Select’s management then steers the search with its network of 15,000 partners. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day and monitors 1,700 listing sites: in Mougins, the first channel is the one that counts, because the homes for sale in Mougins that matter rarely reach the portals. Each shortlisted property is qualified on documents, title, surveys, estate rules and charges, then pre-viewed on video, Home Select steering the visit with the seller’s agent: garden, walls, roof, room by room. The price is set against comparable DVF sales in the commune, then come the offer and the negotiation.

You travel only for the decisive viewings, grouped into a single trip. Home Select then secures the offer and coordinates the notaire up to completion; a power of attorney lets you sign without coming back.

The village first: a few old houses in the ring of lanes, narrow, contested, which often need rehabilitation; for an owner away part of the year, car access and parking are settled before the offer. Then Mougins-le-Haut: villa residences and estates lined with pines, distant views over the countryside and, on a clear day, the sea; the quality of the buildings varies a great deal from one property to the next.

Sainte-Marguerite and the Val de Mougins concentrate daily life, shops, services, recent residences and small houses: the most convenient side for a year-round move, a few minutes from the medieval village. The golf estates, finally, line up contemporary and Provençal villas in the pine woods, with security and services: for a house reached from abroad and closed part of the year, it is often the simplest choice to manage, in exchange for architectural rules, charges and perimeters to read before the offer.

Who buys this way? Europeans and Americans drawn by the restaurants and by the memory of Picasso; Sophia Antipolis executives arriving with a transfer; Parisians looking for a family home. People come to Mougins to stay: a foreign buyer buys here to live, not to show off.

The Mougins market lives all year round, more evenly than the coast: decisions are taken in spring and at the September rentrée; summer slows the viewings without stopping them, and the late season, mild under the pines, remains the window international buyers favour. For a remote buyer the sequence is prepared in reverse: brief in winter, pre-viewings in spring, a single trip, offer before summer.

The law makes no difference: no nationality or residency condition to buy in France; an offer to purchase accompanied by a payment is void; the buyer has a ten-day withdrawal period after the preliminary contract; the surveys are at the seller’s expense. The taxation of your country of residence, the holding structure and inheritance fall to your notaire and a tax adviser: another trade, which Home Select does not mix with the search.

Home Select’s fees are due 100% on success, nothing before completion: 2.5% including VAT of the net purchase price for the Exclusive offer, with a minimum of €10,000 including VAT; the Confidentielle offer, 1.5% including VAT of the net purchase price, reserved for projects of 2 million euros and above, same full service, off-market properties only. Home Select, founded in 2011, has accompanied more than 1,200 buyers, 30% of them expatriates or international.