Buyer’s agent: your questions, Home Select’s answers

A buyer’s agent 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: Home Select cuts the search to 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40, and about fifteen hours instead of 150. Negotiation: Home Select secures 6% off the asking price on average.

Yes: Home Select operates under the Hoguet law, with a professional property transaction card (carte T) issued by the CCI Paris Île-de-France and professional liability insurance. Home Select is exempt from the financial guarantee because it holds no client funds: its fees are paid at the notaire’s office on the day of the deed. Every search rests on a written mandate signed before any step, and clients have access to a consumer mediator. Home Select is a member of the FCI.

Home Select charges 2.5% of the net purchase price for the Exclusive offer (exclusive mandate), minimum €10,000 incl. VAT, and 1.5% for the Confidential offer (simple mandate, reserved for off-market properties and projects of €2m and above). In both cases, 10% of the negotiated reduction is added: Home Select is also paid on what you save.

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 completes its searches 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.

Home Select offers both, with the same full service: the Exclusive offer (exclusive mandate, 2.5%) at every budget, and the Confidential offer (simple mandate, 1.5%), which opens the off-market to projects of €2m and above. Both add 10% of the negotiated reduction to the fees.

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 and by approaching owners directly: Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day before they go on sale.

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. Paris and the inner-ring towns have their own pages on this website; the rest of Île-de-France is served by Home Select’s original website, homeselect.paris.

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

Yes: Home Select works daily with expatriate and international buyers, who make up 50% of its clients. 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.

Click "Describe your project" on any page, or call Home Select: a buyer’s agent answers within one working day, for a first confidential conversation with no commitment. The brief is then built with you, area by area.