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Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, here conducts the purchase of a property in Nice 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
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01From abroad
Nice is exceptionally well connected to the world: its airport, France’s third, is ten minutes from the centre and serves more than one hundred direct destinations, including New York in season, London, Dubai and the great European hubs. Few Riviera cities offer such closeness between the plane and the address.
For a buyer steering from abroad, that ease changes everything: a targeted weekend viewing trip becomes realistic, and so does attending the signing.
French Riviera - Nice - The Baie des Anges in panorama
02From abroad
The difficulty of a remote purchase is never the welcome: Nice is an international city, the administration is used to foreign files and bilingual services are the norm. The difficulty is the sorting: on a globalised market where fine properties close before listing, how to choose without paying the price of haste.
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, voted charges, diagnostics, servitudes, 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.
A weekend or two days in Nice to view the shortlist and choose the district: the only step that requires your presence.
Power of attorney at the notary’s or a final trip: both work, with the foreign file prepared upstream.
03From abroad
The Nice market is active year-round, with two peaks: spring, March to June, where fine properties trade fast, and the September-October rentrée after the high season. Summer slows viewings without stopping transactions.
For a remote buyer, 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 offerIn the same dossier
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Yes, 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 Nice 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, the airport being ten minutes from the centre: 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, voted co-ownership charges, minutes, servitudes, and comparable sales of the address for the price. Home Select conducts this vetting in Nice for clients steering from abroad.
Spring, March to June, is the first peak where fine properties trade fast; September and October offer a second window after the high season. For a remote buyer, the calendar is prepared in reverse: brief in winter, shortlist in spring, signing in autumn.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Nice, 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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