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Bordeaux · Moving
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, gathers here what truly matters to relocate to Bordeaux: the districts that suit each project, the TGV two hours from Paris, the Arcachon bay an hour away. The guide to a successful relocation, in a city that settles easily.
Updated on 20 October 2026
A first confidential conversation, with no commitment
01Moving
Bordeaux settles easily: schools, university, hospital, airport and TGV, everything is there, at the scale of a city whose centre crosses on foot. Blonde stone, the tram, the restored quays along the Garonne: daily life is gentle for arrivals from Paris or abroad.
What newcomers discover: the city is chosen by district more than by area, and the west, Caudéran, Saint-Genès, Le Bouscat, works as a family crown in its own right, fifteen minutes from the centre.
Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - The great staircase of the Jardin Public
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The TGV links Saint-Jean station to Paris in two hours, with direct services to Lille, Brussels and Strasbourg. Bordeaux-Mérignac airport is twenty minutes from the centre. And the Arcachon bay is less than an hour away: the weekend by excellence, ocean and bay.
Families aim at Caudéran, Saint-Genès and Le Bouscat for the échoppe with garden, Les Chartrons and the Jardin Public for walkable life. The real local criterion, here as everywhere, is the actual school run: it draws the district.
Chartrons, Jardin Public, Triangle: the centre on foot, schools and market included, with the park on top.
Caudéran, Saint-Genès, Le Bouscat: the échoppe with garden, the schools, fifteen minutes from the centre.
The Arcachon bay less than an hour: the ocean weekend is part of the Bordeaux choice.
03Moving
A successful family relocation plays out over six months: school enrolment first, with its windows; housing next, because well-exposed échoppes do not come in series; the house or the apartment finally, depending on the garden-versus-walkability trade-off.
Home Select’s finders start from that calendar and run it backwards: the district follows the schools, the property follows the district, and the search starts remotely to land at the right moment. The market is active year-round, with a peak from March to June: the ideal calendar builds on it.
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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Two options come up: the échoppe with a garden and a school nearby, in Caudéran, Saint-Genès or Le Bouscat, or the apartment in Les Chartrons and around the Jardin Public, where everything is done on foot, from the market to the tram. The real criterion is the actual school run, not the map: it draws the district. Home Select prepares that choice with school enrolment windows in sight.
Two hours by TGV from Paris to Saint-Jean station, with direct services to Lille, Brussels and Strasbourg. Bordeaux-Mérignac airport is twenty minutes from the centre: Bordeaux is one of the fastest provincial cities to reach from Paris.
In the centre, from the Triangle to Les Chartrons, not day to day: the tram and walking cover everything, and the car mostly serves weekends towards the bay. In the west, Caudéran, Le Bouscat, it becomes again the tool of the school run and errands. The usage question precedes the district question.
Six months ahead: school enrolment has its windows and well-exposed échoppes leave in days. Sales peak from March to June: Home Select’s buyer’s agents therefore most often start the search remotely in winter, to visit in a targeted way in spring and sign before the summer, in time for a move in July.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Bordeaux, 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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