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Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, describes each Nice district for what it is: a precise purchase product, with its buildings, its buyers and its traps. From the Promenade des Anglais to the Gairaut hills, the guide tells you where your budget belongs according to the project, not the postcard.
Updated on 19 October 2026
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01Districts
Nice remains the residential capital of the Riviera: Nice palaces, bourgeois buildings, sea-view villas and an international airport putting the city two hours from every European capital. Prestige reads first on the seafront, from the Promenade des Anglais to the Carré d’Or, prestige buildings on the front line.
The second reading climbs: Cimiez and its grand apartments in former palace hotels, Mont Boron between town and cape, Gairaut and its quiet properties with views over the Baie des Anges. The port and old Nice finally play the character card, terraces and lanes, a neighbourhood life the seafront does not have.
02Districts
The hill of queens and tsars: the great Belle Époque hotels (Excelsior, Regina) converted into upmarket residences, century-old parks, the Chagall and Matisse museums. Large through apartments are rare and contested there.
The wooded hill between the port and Villefranche: contemporary or old villas facing the bay, famous properties, absolute calm ten minutes from the centre. A confidential micro-market where the open sea view commands everything.
The heart of cosmopolitan Nice: prestige buildings of the promenade and the streets of the Carré d’Or, noble floors with terraces, palaces with services. A market of safe values, globalised, where floor, view and the condition of the building decide all.
French Riviera - Nice - The Baie des Anges in panorama
The Lympia quarter and the lanes of old Nice: character apartments, rooftop terraces, markets and restaurants on foot. A more affordable market than the seafront, demanding on noise and building condition.
French Riviera - Nice - The port from the heights
The residential heights north of the city: quiet villas and properties, plunging views over the Baie des Anges, Mediterranean greenery. A family and confidential market, where access and exposure are checked with care.
Carré d’Or and promenade des Anglais: a renovated Belle Époque flat, walking distance from the sea and the shops. For regular use and short stays year round.
Mont Boron, Gairaut and the hills: a flat or villa with a panoramic view, quiet, halfway between the centre and nature. The high-end second-home segment.
Cimiez for bourgeois volumes and gardens, the port and old Nice for urban life. Two settings for year-round use, with schools and services close by.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Nice. Orientation pointers, which your buyer’s agent refines with you at the brief.
French Riviera - Nice - The Promenade at sunset
03Districts
The question is never which is the nicest district of Nice, but which district matches the actual use of the property: a Carré d’Or pied-à-terre is not managed like a Mont Boron villa, and the choice plays on view, floor and lift as much as on the street.
Home Select’s finders start from that usage question: frequency of stays, the need for view or calm, tolerance to large-building charges, the car or its absence. The district follows, naturally.
The Carré d’Or and the promenade: feet in town, the beach opposite, the simplest remote management.
Cimiez, Mont Boron, Gairaut: former-palace apartments and quiet villas, panoramas over the bay or the cape.
The port and old Nice: terraces, the market, the old-fashioned art of living, a Nice that never quite sleeps.
04Districts
Each district has its own. In the bourgeois buildings of the centre and the promenade: sometimes heavy voted charges, air conditioning and terrace sealing, quality varying greatly from floor to floor of the same building. View, exposure and building quality create considerable price differences.
On the hills and Mont Boron, coastal servitudes, access and villa upkeep demand their own reading. The dreamt-of address and the purchasable address are not always the same: that is where Home Select’s work starts.
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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.
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The Carré d’Or, between the Promenade des Anglais and the Boulevard Victor-Hugo: this is where the most prestigious Belle Époque and Art Deco buildings are concentrated, a stone’s throw from the sea and the Albert-I gardens. Cimiez, with its grand apartments in former palace hotels, is its well-heeled counterpart on the hill. Home Select works these micro-markets by watch and network.
Two readings of the hills. Cimiez lines up grand apartments in former hotels, palace architecture and the calm of a residential district; Mont Boron, between town and cape, offers villas and sea-view apartments in a green setting. Usage decides: building life against the villa, proximity of the centre against the panorama.
It is one of the liveliest districts of Nice: terraces, the lanes of old Nice nearby, a true village within the city, at levels distinct from the seafront. Buildings there are heterogeneous: the audit, charges, conditions, noise, decides more than anywhere else. For year-round living, it is a character choice.
Levels are read in the data of this page and of the price page: the seafront holds the summit, Cimiez and Mont Boron follow on their own products, the port and the eastern districts open the lower range. A realistic budget builds on comparable sales of the exact address, which Home Select’s finders document before any offer.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Nice, 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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