Deauville, Normandy
The method
The Home Select method, and what it brings you
Since 2011, Home Select has guided more than 1,200 buyers on the most demanding market in France. The method does not change from one region to the next: it holds in six movements and one principle, you only view the essential.
- Searching alone
- 40 viewings or more · 6 months · 150 hours
- With Home Select
- 3 viewings · 45 days · 15 hours
How does a search with Home Select, property finder in France, work?
Home Select, a property finder in France, runs the search in six steps: project brief, daily monitoring of the whole market including off-market properties, strict shortlisting (3 viewings on average instead of 40), negotiation (6% average off the asking price), priced offer, support through to the deed. Average duration: 45 days. Fees 100% on success.
Benefits
What the method brings you
Your time
Fifteen hours of your time, not a hundred and fifty
Every lead is pre-viewed before you travel: a commented video, an analysis sheet, and viewings grouped into a single trip. Home Select only shows you properties that match the brief: 3 on average, about 15 hours of your time, against 40 viewings and close to 150 hours for a search carried out alone.
The market
The entire market is covered
Listings from the 1,700 sites watched around the clock, private sellers, agencies, notaires, property traders and the network’s direct prospecting: Home Select receives at least 100 off-market properties a day from its 15,000 agents, notaires and managing agents. The first proposals arrive within 48 hours.
The price
The right property at the right price
Every proposal is benchmarked against the actual sales recorded around the property. Home Select runs the negotiation for you, on price as on terms, and secures 6% on average off the asking price. Fees are due only on success, at the signing of the authentic deed.
Security
You buy without nasty surprises
Structure, co-ownership, service charges, surveys: every document is checked before you commit. The compromis is read line by line, the signature accompanied before the notaire, and follow-up continues after the keys are handed over.
Method
Home Select takes care of everything
Every step is optimised, from qualifying your project to the handover of the keys.
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The brief
Everything starts with a thorough conversation: the use of the property, the real budget, the non-negotiable criteria, the calendar. This written framing becomes the roadmap of the hunt, and avoids the months lost viewing beside the point.
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Sourcing, off-market included
Home Select covers the whole market: published listings, and above all what is never displayed anywhere. Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.
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Pre-visits
Every lead is verified, visited or analysed for you: commented video, technical sheet, first figures. You only travel for properties that truly match the brief.
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Negotiation
The offer is drafted and defended by Home Select, complete file in hand. The negotiation covers the price, but also the conditions, the timelines and the works revealed.
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Securing
Preliminary contract read line by line, surveys, co-ownership rules, charges, easements: every document is checked before you commit. Local points of vigilance, from the coast to the mountains, are in Home Select’s checklists.
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The keys
Home Select stays by your side through to the signing before the notaire, and after: contractors, formalities, moving. Its work ends when you are settled in, not when the deed is signed.
The result is measurable: Home Select completes a search in 3 viewings, 45 days and about fifteen hours of your time on average, against 40+ viewings, six months and 150 hours for a search undertaken alone.
Get in touch
Every viewing counts.
Honfleur, Normandie
The method in numbers
- 1,200+
- buyers guided since 2011
- 45 days
- on average from signed mandate to accepted offer
- 3
- viewings on average, instead of 40
- 6%
- negotiated on average off the asking price
- 15,000
- professional partners in France
- 100+
- off-market properties surfaced every day
The principle
Property finder or estate agent: the real difference
| Criterion | Property finder | Estate agent |
|---|---|---|
| Who pays | You, the buyer | The seller, through their commission |
| Who they work for | The buyer, exclusively | The seller who signs the mandate |
| Off-market | At the core of the craft, through the network | At the mercy of their address book |
| Negotiation | Run for you, 6% on average | Run for the seller |
| Viewings | 3 on average, pre-selected | As many as selling takes |
| Pay | 100% on success | Paid on the sale, whatever the price |
Home Select never takes a sales mandate: no property to move, no conflict of interest. The estate agent does their job, which is selling; Home Select’s is making you buy better.
The Home Select set-up
How does Home Select operate in France?
Home Select has guided more than 1,200 buyers since 2011, and its leadership runs your search. On the ground, Home Select activates its network of 15,000 professional partners, who surface properties before they reach the open market. Properties are first seen on a video pre-viewing: you only travel for the decisive viewings, grouped into a single trip.
Home Select is building its national network city by city, and says so plainly: from day one you get the method, the network and the negotiation; a dedicated local finder takes over your file as each territory opens.
Frequently asked questions
What Home Select is asked about the method
Do you work only for buyers?
Yes, exclusively. Home Select never takes a sales mandate: no conflict of interest, and a negotiation run solely for your benefit. That is the very principle of property finding, framed by the Hoguet law and a written search mandate.
What happens if no property fits?
The search stops and you owe nothing: fees are due only on success, at the signing of the authentic deed. The mandate states its scope and duration from the start, and you can reassess everything at the first conversation.
How do the viewings work?
Home Select only shows you properties that match the brief: 3 on average. Every viewing is prepared, complete file in hand, and followed by a technical second viewing when the property passes the first filter: structure, co-ownership, charges, environment.
Do you work in my city if it has no page on this site?
Yes. The pages of this site describe the cities where Home Select hunts most often; any other French city is handled tailor-made, with the same method and the same network. Describe your project: the firm answers quickly, and candidly.
How much does property finding cost?
Home Select charges 2.5% of the net purchase price on the Exclusive offer (minimum €10,000 incl. VAT), or 1.5% on the Confidential offer for projects of €2m and above. 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
How long does it take to find a property?
Home Select takes 45 days on average from the signed mandate to an accepted offer, with 3 viewings and about fifteen hours of your time. The calendar follows the brief: a sharply targeted project can go faster, a rare hunt may ask for more patience.
And now
Your project deserves a first conversation
Thirty minutes are enough to frame the essential and tell you honestly what Home Select can do. Confidential, no commitment.
