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Aix-en-Provence · Moving
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent based in the Aix countryside, gathers here what truly matters to relocate to Aix-en-Provence: schools and the school run, the TGV and the airport, the districts that suit each stage of life. The guide to a successful relocation, not a romantic move.
Updated on 19 October 2026
A first confidential conversation, with no commitment
01Moving
Aix is lived on foot. In the morning, the market on place Richelme under the plane trees; later, an exhibition, a bookshop of rue Maréchal Joffre, the shade of a square when the mistral rises. In summer, the lyric art festival has filled the archbishop’s courtyard since 1948; in winter, the Sainte-Victoire changes colour every week.
The town counts 145,000 inhabitants and lives year-round, and that is what sets it apart from the coast: shops have no low season, international schools recruit continuously, the university brings a youth that never quite leaves. For newcomers from Paris, Lyon or abroad, the shock is rarely the size of the town: it is the pace.
Provence - Aix-en-Provence - The old centre and Mont Sainte-Victoire
02Moving
Three hours of TGV separate Aix from Paris, at the Aix-en-Provence TGV station, with regular services to Lyon, Geneva and Brussels. Marseille Provence airport is twenty-five minutes by shuttle, with more than one hundred and twenty direct destinations: London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid, Rome, and the great Gulf hubs. New York is one connection away.
Day to day, the real question is local: the school run. Every family who relocates says it, and it is the criterion that draws the district choice far more than the postcard. Venelles for the schools and the garden, Le Tholonet for the light and the Cézanne road, the old town to do everything on foot: each option trades space against proximity.
Everything on foot: schools, market, cours Mirabeau. The trade-off: scarce surfaces, old-building charges, parking to organise.
Garden and calm ten minutes from the centre: the family option par excellence, with the car that goes with it.
The crown villages: schools, houses, more affordable prices, half an hour from the cours Mirabeau.
03Moving
A successful family relocation plays out over six months: schooling first, because enrolment in Aix schools, public and international, has its windows; housing next, because fine family properties do not come in series; the move itself finally, planned around the school year.
Home Select’s finders start from that calendar and run it backwards: the district follows the school, the property follows the district, and the search starts remotely to land at the right moment. That too is being accompanied: not visiting Aix as a tourist, but buying it knowingly.
A buyer’s agent answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.
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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Families look at Célony, Les Pinchinats, Puyricard or Venelles for the garden and the schools, and at the old town to do everything on foot. The real criterion here is the daily school run, not the postcard: it draws the district more than desire does. Home Select prepares that choice with school enrolment windows in sight.
Three hours by TGV from Paris to the Aix-en-Provence TGV station, also served from Lyon, Geneva and Brussels. For travel abroad, a shuttle takes you in twenty-five minutes to Marignane airport, with direct flights to thirty-three countries, which makes it possible to keep a foot in another European capital. Aix is one of the easiest southern towns to reach, from Paris and from abroad.
In the old town, not day to day: schools, market and cours Mirabeau are walkable, and parking gets organised. As soon as you look at the countryside, Célony or the crown, yes: the car becomes the tool of the school run and the errands. The usage question, once again, comes before the district question.
Six months ahead: school enrolment has its windows, and fine family properties do not come in series. The Aix market wakes in February and intensifies in spring, which lands just right to sign before the summer. Starting the search remotely in winter and visiting on target in spring is the calendar Home Select’s finders hold most often.
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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