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Montpellier · Moving
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, gathers here what truly matters to relocate to Montpellier: the Mediterranean arc’s most dynamic city, university and hospital, tram and coast twenty minutes away. The guide to settling between L’Écusson and the sea.
Updated on 19 October 2026
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01Moving
Montpellier is the most dynamic city of the Mediterranean arc: university, hospital, tram, airport and TGV. Daily life happens between the squares of L’Écusson, the banks of the Lez and the beaches twenty minutes away, under the southern light.
What newcomers discover: the city rewards whoever chooses their district, from pedestrian L’Écusson to contemporary Port Marianne, and the Mediterranean summer prepares itself: old and new architecture both have hot hours.
Occitanie - Montpellier - The Arc de Triomphe at sunrise
02Moving
Montpellier Méditerranée airport serves Europe and the Mediterranean basin, including Paris, London, Brussels and Marrakech in season, but stays modest in size: for long-haul, the gate is Paris or Lyon. The TGV links Paris in about three and a half hours.
Families look at Boutonnet, Aiguelongue and the crown communes for the house, L’Écusson and Les Arceaux for life on foot, Port Marianne for the contemporary. The real local criterion is the actual school run, once again.
L’Écusson and Les Arceaux: medieval squares, the Peyrou, shops, life without a car.
Boutonnet, Aiguelongue, the crown: standing houses and residences to the north.
Palavas, Carnon, La Grande-Motte: the coast twenty minutes away, summer daily.
03Moving
A successful family relocation plays out over six months: school enrolment first, with its windows; housing next, because L’Écusson’s fine properties do not come in series; the house or the apartment finally, by the town-versus-garden arbitrage.
Activity is lively from February to June then in September and October, while summer months concentrate heat and crowds: starting the search remotely in winter and visiting on target in spring is the calendar Home Select’s finders hold most often.
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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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For a house near the schools, Boutonnet, Aiguelongue or a commune in the outer ring; to do everything on foot, L’Écusson and Les Arceaux; for contemporary architecture and new districts, Port Marianne. The real criterion is the actual school run, and the Mediterranean summer prepares itself: exposure and air conditioning count in the arbitrage.
About three and a half hours by TGV. For flying, Montpellier airport, on a human scale, covers most European and Mediterranean routes, including London and Brussels; for a long-haul flight, however, you have to go through Paris or Lyon.
In L’Écusson and the centre, not day to day: the tram and walking cover most of it, and the beach is reached by bus. As soon as you look at Boutonnet, Aiguelongue or the crown, the car becomes again the daily tool. The usage question precedes the district question.
Six months ahead: school enrolment has its windows and L’Écusson’s fine properties do not come in series. Sales are concentrated from February to June, then pick up again in September and October: starting remotely in winter makes it possible to visit an already sorted shortlist in spring, before the summer heat, and it is the rhythm Home Select’s buyer’s agents follow most often.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Montpellier, 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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