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Aix-en-Provence · Long-term buying
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent based in the Aix countryside, sets out the rules of a long-term purchase in Aix-en-Provence: what gives an address its value over time, the scarcity of the Mazarin and of the bastides, what charges and works really weigh. No appreciation promises: verifiable criteria, property by property.
Updated on 19 October 2026
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01Long-term buying
Aix is one of the rare southern French towns that live all year round: 40,000 students, law and economics faculties, art and engineering schools, and an executive economy fed by the Arbois technology park and nearby Marseille. Unlike the coast, the town lives in September as in February: a well-chosen apartment there does not depend on the season.
That vitality has a counterpart: competition is strong on standard properties, and the small units of the old town trade at the highest price per square metre of the city. A successful long-term purchase in Aix is not guessed: it is built, charges included, on a specific address.
Provence - Aix-en-Provence - The old centre and Mont Sainte-Victoire
02Long-term buying
Three lines decide the quality of a long-term purchase in Aix, and none appears in the listing. Co-ownership charges first: the old-town buildings sometimes carry lifts, listed façades and shared roofs, and the assembly minutes tell what is coming. Works next: in the protected sector, façades and joinery go through the architecte des Bâtiments de France, with the delays and costs that follow.
The energy diagnostic finally: the French regulatory trajectory tightens requirements year after year, and a poorly rated property will reach resale tomorrow with works to plan. Home Select’s finders check these three lines before the offer, because they decide the property’s value over time far more than the asking price.
03Long-term buying
The old town and the areas around the faculties offer the small surfaces: character buildings, pieds-à-terre in town, and the apartment bought to house a child during their studies. The Mazarin plays another register: the scarcity of noble floors makes them long-term values, handed down more than sold.
The crown, from Éguilles to Venelles, and the bastide countryside answer a family and international demand. For a long-term buyer, the real question there is the gap between the purchase price and the long-term value of the site: land, water, views.
A pied-à-terre in town or a home for a student child: their price per square metre is the city’s highest, so the arbitrage plays on charges and condition.
Rare, protected long-term values, handed down more than sold: the logic is wealth preservation first.
Éguilles, Venelles, Le Tholonet: family demand is solid, and the purchase price to site-value gap is the real decision variable.
04Long-term buying
Home Select starts from the usage, not the property: prepare a future residence or a return from abroad, keep a pied-à-terre, house a student child, place capital in bricks and mortar, pass a property on? Each objective leads to different districts and properties, and to a different arithmetic. Only then does the search begin: watch over comparable sales of the micro-area, access to properties before they list, full technical costing, negotiation.
On an Aix market where prices hold, preparation is what creates the gap: the right purchase is the one whose co-ownership has been read, whose works have been costed and whose site value has been checked before signing.
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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.
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Its fundamentals are solid and verifiable: 40,000 students, an executive economy, a town that lives all year round, and price levels progressing without frenzy since June 2022. A good long-term purchase remains a matter of a specific property: charges, works, energy rating and price paid decide its value over time. Home Select checks these lines before any offer, and never promises appreciation; the works themselves are priced by an architect or a builder.
Those whose value rests on what cannot be reproduced: the noble floors of the Mazarin, rare and protected, and the bastides of the countryside, where value builds around land, water and views. The small surfaces of the old town serve as a pied-à-terre or a home for a student child; families look for houses in the crown, from Éguilles to Venelles. The best property is not a category: it is the one whose condition, charges and purchase price are consistent with the intended use.
The minutes of the last three general meetings: they state voted works, upcoming works and disputes. In Aix come the protected-sector constraints: any façade or joinery work goes through the architecte des Bâtiments de France. These lines are budgeted before the offer, never after.
They are different objects. The old-town apartment manages remotely and serves as a pied-à-terre or a future residence; the bastide is a wealth asset whose value lies in land, water and site, and which asks for a presence for upkeep. Depending on the objective, either is justified: it is the first question Home Select settles with a buyer.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Aix-en-Provence, 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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