Property finder: your questions, our answers

A property finder is a professional mandated by the BUYER, never by the seller. Home Select searches, shortlists and negotiates the property for its client: daily monitoring of listings and off-market, filtered viewings, price negotiation and support all the way to the notary’s signature.

The estate agent holds a sales mandate: they work for the seller. The finder holds a search mandate: they work for you alone, the buyer. Home Select therefore negotiates against the seller, with one mission: pay the right price, not defend it.

The broker searches for financing: negotiating rates and loan conditions with banks. The finder searches for the property. The two professions are complementary and intervene at different stages of the project.

For three measurable reasons: access (Home Select opens the off-market through its network of 15,000 professional partners), time (3 viewings on the client side instead of 40, about fifteen hours instead of 150) and negotiation (6% secured on average off the asking price).

At Home Select, the Exclusive offer (exclusive mandate) is charged at 2.5% of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT. The Confidential offer (simple mandate, reserved for off-market properties and projects of €2m and above) is charged at 1.5%.

On success only: Home Select is paid on the day of signature at the notary’s office, and nothing is due before. No registration fee, no deposit, no subscription upfront. If no property is bought, nothing is due.

Six stages, the same for every search: the brief and the mandate, daily monitoring (listings and off-market), strict shortlisting, filtered viewings with written reports, negotiation, then support to completion. The detailed method is published on the Method page.

Home Select’s searches complete in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40. The exact calendar depends on how rare the target property is: it is framed at the brief, then held.

Both exist at Home Select, with the same full service. The Exclusive offer (exclusive mandate, 2.5%) suits every budget; the Confidential offer (simple mandate, 1.5%) opens the off-market to projects of €2m and above.

Sales that never appear as listings: they circulate between agents, notaries, estate keepers and private owners. Home Select reaches them through its network of 15,000 professional partners, surfacing more than 100 properties every day before they go on sale, and by approaching owners directly.

Home Select hunts from Provence to Normandy, from the Megève chalet to the Saint-Tropez villa: each area, and each of its cities, has its own page. Any other destination is handled tailor-made with the same method. Île-de-France is served by our Paris house, homeselect.paris.

Yes: it is the leading buying motive on our coastal and mountain areas. The Second home page details this case, from the seasonal calendar to financing.

Yes, it is Home Select’s daily routine: 30% of its clients are expatriates or international buyers. Video brief, remote shortlisting and commented pre-visits, viewings grouped into a single trip, and a team working in French and English.

Yes, the whole search can be run in English, from the brief to the negotiations. The dedicated page for English-speaking buyers details this route, and the website exists fully in English.

Yes, on the same principle and the same terms as a purchase: it is the rental search, designed for tight rental markets where shortlisting makes all the difference.

Describe your project from any page (the "Entrust your search" button, or the phone): a property finder answers within one working day, for a first confidential conversation with no commitment. The brief is then built with you, area by area.