Alps - Megève - The village under snow
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Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you in Megève. You only visit the properties shortlisted, and nothing is due before the deed is signed.
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Home Select is a buyer’s agent in Megève, founded in 2011, searching for chalets and apartments on the buyer’s exclusive behalf, from Mont d’Arbois to Rochebrune. Home Select opens access to off-market properties, where many chalets change hands without a listing, and charges fees 100% on success.
A character village turned world reference of the prestige chalet, Megève plays on codes insiders know: the historic slopes of Mont d’Arbois and Rochebrune, walking distance to the centre, the sunshine of Le Jaillet. A market of families and hand-me-downs, where the finest chalets are not displayed. Home Select tracks Megève property for sale address by address, on the market and off-market.
A buyer’s agent works for the buyer, and for the buyer alone. Here is what Home Select changes, concretely, for your purchase in Megève.
A Home Select finder writes your brief, launches the search within the week and stays with you until the deed is signed. Home Select answers every enquiry within 24 working hours.
Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties a day from its 15,000 partners, agents, notaries and managing agents, before they go on sale. The finest addresses in Megève often change hands this way.
Home Select pre-visits every property on commented video and shows only 3 properties on average, instead of 40 when searching alone, grouped into a single trip if you come from afar.
Home Select negotiates 6% on average off the asking price, with the area’s actual sales in hand, and checks every document before you commit. Also paid 10% of the negotiated reduction, Home Select has every reason to bring the price down: you keep 90% of every euro saved. Fees are due on success: nothing before signing.
Alps - Megève - A street and the church bell tower
A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select in Megève.
They search on your behalf and for you alone, from the written brief to the checking of every document up to the final deed: the six steps are detailed below. Home Select works for the buyer, never for the seller.
A main home, a second home, a pied-à-terre or a long-term wealth purchase in Megève, whether you are on site or abroad: the search is run remotely, video viewings included, up to the decisive viewing.
Home Select runs two offers, with the same full service: the Exclusive offer, an exclusive mandate, 2.5% of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT, at every budget; the Confidential offer, a simple mandate reserved for projects of €2m and above, 1.5% of the net purchase price, dedicated to off-market properties. In both cases, 10% of the negotiated reduction is added to the fees, and nothing is due until you have bought.
The calendar depends on the market in Megève and on how rare the target property is: Home Select sets it at the first conversation, then holds it, and answers within one working day.
Home Select since 2011 · 1,200+ buyers guided · 4.8/5 on Google (140 reviews) · Paid 100% on success
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In the mountains, exposure is judged in midwinter: a chalet radiant in August can sit in the shadow of its slope through January. Study the sun’s path at the solstice, and view in cold weather if you can, when the valley holds the frost.
At village altitude, snow at the door is never guaranteed all season. Have the actual ski access spelled out, the run home, the shuttle that takes over: any ski-in ski-out claim deserves to be tested on a mild day.
A Megève chalet is worth what its land still allows: residual footprint, extension, rebuilding. Local planning tightly frames roofs, pitches and materials; have the rules analysed before weighing a farm to restore against a recent build.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Megève, and what you gain from it.
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.
Every property put to you matches your brief: the search hits the mark from the first week.
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.
You see properties before the market does, and sometimes properties that will never be published.
Every lead is verified and analysed for you, on file then on a video viewing: technical sheet, first figures. You only travel for properties that truly match the brief.
Fewer journeys: your decisive viewings grouped into a single trip, on the shortlisted properties only.
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.
You buy at the right price, every offer defended with the area’s actual sales in hand.
Preliminary contract read line by line, surveys, co-ownership rules, charges, easements: every document is checked before you commit. The points of vigilance specific to each local market are in Home Select’s checklists.
You commit with full knowledge of the facts, with no bad surprise after signing.
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.
A timetable framed at the first conversation, then kept: at every stage you know where your purchase stands.
A share of the finest sales in Megève completes without ever being listed. Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before publication, and also approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.
Two offers, the same full service, paid on success only: the Exclusive offer, 2.5% of the net purchase price (minimum €10,000 incl. VAT), at every budget, and the Confidential offer, 1.5%, for projects of €2m and above, plus 10% of the negotiated reduction in both cases. Nothing is due until you have bought in Megève.
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 offerClient reviews
Thank you Catherine and Home Select for what we call the Extra Mile in the United States: explaining the French system, helping us organise the works... It was great.
A search run from abroad
Super expérience avec Home Select. Le professionnalisme, la disponibilité et l’écoute client de Gwenaelle nous ont permis de trouver un appartement en 2 mois. Son accompagnement et ses conseils ont été clés et parfaitement adaptés pour une recherche à l’international depuis Chicago. Nous recommandons vivement ses services. Found in 3 months after 18 alone
Nous a été très très satisfaits des services de Sophie. Elle a été efficace, disponible, et très fine pour sentir précisément nos besoins et envies. Grâce à elle, nous avons réalisé un achat qui nous va, et nous avons trouvé en 3 mois alors que nous cherchions depuis 1 an et demi. Un très très grand merci et nous vous la recommandons chaleureusement ! A buyer based elsewhere in France
Basé en province, l’accompagnement pour ma recherche d’un appartement a été à la hauteur de mes attentes : écoute, réactivité, disponibilité et tout cela sans pression. Merci Catherine.. I turned to HOME SELECT because I had tried to find my apartment myself by going round the agencies, which proved impossible.
After eight months alone, one week
Nous avons fait appel à Catherine après plus de 8 mois de recherche infructueuse seuls, et ça a été la meilleure décision que nous aurions pu prendre. En à peine une semaine, elle nous a trouvé l’appartement idéal, et notre offre a été acceptée malgré plusieurs dossiers en concurrence. Catherine a été d’un professionnalisme remarquable, toujours disponible, à l’écoute, réactive et rassurante tout au long du processus d’achat. Nous la recommandons chaleureusement. Care that lasts after the signing
Super expérience avec Anne ! appartement remplissant les critères trouvé rapidement et , surtout, accompagnement et vrai suivi même après la signature de l’acte definitif Nous recommandons vivement The family house, at last
Après de longs mois de recherches, nous avons trouvé LA maison que nous cherchions pour notre famille grâce à Véronique. Sa disponibilité, sa compréhension de nos critères et son travail avec l’agent immobilier en charge de la vente nous ont permis d’aller jusqu’au bout du projet. Nous sommes ravis ! Thanks to Véronique and her knowledge of the area, not only were we able to view properties first, but we bought with complete peace of mind. We were supported at every step.
Reviews are quoted in the language their authors wrote them in.
Alps - Megève - The village and its church under snow
Page updated on 20 October 2026, reviewed by Jean Mascla, founder of Home Select
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 239 sales were recorded in Megève: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
After +14% since June 2022, the past year pauses (-2%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
Sales range from €6,300/m² to €15,600/m²: address and condition make the price.
Megève is a village before being a resort: year-round residents, a lively village square, farms renovated one by one. This authenticity drives the market: families return generation after generation, and the finest chalets are handed down more than sold.
Value obeys precise codes insiders know: the slope (historic Mont d’Arbois, ski-in ski-out Rochebrune, sunny Jaillet), the walking distance to the centre, the exposure, the buildable land. Two neighbouring chalets may not belong to the same market.
The calendar is inverted against intuition: the best acquisitions are negotiated in spring and autumn, away from the season. And most fine sales happen without a listing, between families, notaires and concierges: a network market, by construction.
| 12 months to end of June | Median | Sales counted (apartments) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | €8,200/m² | 281 |
| 2023 | €9,700/m² | 254 |
| 2024 | €10,100/m² | 181 |
| 2025 | €9,600/m² | 172 |
| 2026 | €9,400/m² | 201 |
Median for apartments over 12 months to end of June, year by year. A period without enough sales at the threshold is not published: the curve skips it rather than inventing a point.
The city and its department: Megève trades 114% above its department median (€4,400/m²), same vintage and same method.
Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property. Updated: October 2026.
Alps - Megève - The village under snow from the heights
In Megève you do not choose an address so much as a slope: each has its light, its hours of skiing and its faithful.
The historic Rothschild estate, west of the village, on its plateau: prestige chalets in the spruces, summer golf and winter Princesse slopes, the palace and its restaurants. The top of the Megève market, where transactions are extremely rare and discreet.
South-east of the village, around the Rochebrune cable car: ski-in ski-out chalets, immediate proximity of the centre, the Jaillet slopes opposite. The most sought-after Megève compromise: snow at the door and the village on foot.
The Place du Village and its lanes: renovated farms with haylofts and old wood, apartments in collective chalets, shops and restaurants at the door. Rare, expensive, irreplaceable: the beating heart of Megève.
North-west of the village, towards Combloux, the sunniest slope: chalets and residences facing the Mont-Blanc massif, the Jaillet gondola within reach. A family market that has grown much, with the widest views of the resort.
The neighbouring villages of the plateau: Combloux and its character village facing the Mont-Blanc, Demi-Quartier between Megève and Saint-Gervais. The same slopes fifteen minutes away, larger surfaces for a softer budget: the trade-off many of Home Select’s clients end up making.
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Megève at a glance
In winter Megève moves at the pace of its horse-drawn sleighs: the village square, the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the windows of rue Charles Feige, everything within walking distance. You ski by the light, Rochebrune in the morning, Mont d’Arbois for the long days, Le Jaillet in the afternoon, then come down for a hot chocolate or a table by Emmanuel Renaut, from Flocons de Sel to the simpler addresses of the centre. The scenery Baroness de Rothschild willed into being in 1923 has kept all its poise.
Summer has its faithful, who hold it to be the true season: golf at Mont d’Arbois, the pastures of the Col de Véry, the Calvaire path and its restored oratories above the rooftops. The Friday market lines up farmhouse Reblochon, Beaufort and vegetables from the Val d’Arly; in autumn, Toquicimes celebrates mountain cooking while the village returns to the Megevans. Then the first snow settles, the sleighs come out again, and the cycle resumes as if nothing had moved.
Megève is above all a market of families and inheritance: you buy the chalet you will keep. What protects value is the slope, the sunshine and the real walking distance to the centre, on Mont d’Arbois as in Rochebrune. The finest chalets are not advertised, and the town lives all year, schools and shops included, an hour and a quarter from Geneva.
This is the whole market: a chalet on Mont d’Arbois or Rochebrune, a flat a step from the village. The finest chalets are not advertised. To investigate before the offer: snow clearing and winter access, the genuinely usable floor area under the eaves, the planning status of the plot and upkeep out of season.
Megève lives all year, which is not true of every resort: schools, shops and services work in winter as in summer. Geneva is an hour and a quarter away, which makes it a possible base for an internationally mobile professional. Daily life is won on the position of the property: walking distance from the village or not changes everything.
Megève’s international access runs through Geneva airport, about 1 h 15 by road, with direct links to the main European hubs and the Gulf. There is no TGV to the village: the nearest station is Sallanches, a quarter of an hour away, from which you climb by road. The A40 motorway serves the Arve valley, a heliport allows private transfers, and the mountain roads require winter tyres and a suitable vehicle in season.
The international community in Megève. Megève has long welcomed international families, notably French-Swiss, Belgian, British and Middle Eastern, drawn by its discretion and the proximity of Geneva. Renowned ski schools, multilingual services and upscale shops make stays easy. The market itself is absolutely discreet: the finest sales are settled among insiders, often before any listing. This is where the network counts for more than monitoring.
When to visit, when to buy? Megève has two tourist peaks: winter, led by the year-end holidays and February, and summer, in July and August, between golf, hiking and festivals. Transactions concentrate rather in spring and autumn, more favourable to viewings. For a remote buyer, the mid-season shows the true exposure, the quiet and the access once the snow has gone; a winter visit remains useful to check ski-in access and snow clearing. The village swings from about 2,900 year-round residents to several tens of thousands of beds occupied in peak season.
Alps - Megève - The flowered chalets of the centre in summer
Alps - Megève - The village and Mont Blanc at sunset
Because the local market has its own rules. Value plays on technical criteria: exposure, ski access, building rights, renovation. A buyer’s agent works for you alone, on the buyer’s side: daily monitoring, access to off-market sales, strict shortlisting and negotiation. Since 2011, Home Select has run more than 1,200 searches with this method, rated 4.8/5 on Google.
Based on actual recorded sales (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026), the median price in Megève stands at €9,400/m² for an apartment and €15,700/m² for a house. Across the sectors of the survey, the median ranges from €3,800/m² (Sallanches et Passy) to €5,900/m² (Combloux et Demi-Quartier). These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 2 rooms traded at a median of €9,200/m², on a median surface of 40 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €368,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Both have their case: new for the fittings and the upkeep, old for the location and the charm. Home Select makes the trade-off objective with you, figures and viewings in hand.
Yes: Combloux, Demi-Quartier, Praz-sur-Arly and Saint-Gervais are part of the perimeter. Chamonix and Courchevel have their own page.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 239 sales were recorded in Megève: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. After +14% since June 2022, the past year pauses (-2%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Megève and on your availability: Home Select frames it at the brief, then holds it. Properties are first seen on video, and your decisive viewings are grouped into a single trip.
Through the network and direct approach: Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In Megève, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Mont d’Arbois, then Rochebrune. That is often where the unfindable property is.
Yes, and that is what sets Megève apart from dormitory resorts: shops open off-season, schools, Le Palais and its ice rink, the Friday market. Year-round residents favour the village centre or Le Jaillet, well exposed in winter; Geneva airport remains the gateway for those who split their week.
Le Mont d’Arbois carries the historic side of the prestige chalet; Rochebrune offers ski-in chalets by the cable car; the village centre, renovated farms and apartments a walk from the shops; Le Jaillet, the sunshine and the Mont-Blanc views; Combloux and Demi-Quartier, the calm, panoramic neighbours. Exposure and ski access make the value as much as surface.
That value plays on technical criteria: building rights and extension potential, the state of the renovation, ski access genuinely workable on the way back from the slopes. An old chalet in the heart of the village demands a serious structural audit; a new development, a close reading of the residence rules and charges. In both cases, January sun is verified on site, not on the plan.
To the mountain’s inverted calendar: the best acquisitions are negotiated in spring and autumn, when owners receive serious viewers, away from the season. Many chalets change hands without a listing, within families or between neighbours: it is a market of transmissions, where the network shows what portals never will.
Geneva is an hour away: Megève is viewed from Switzerland or after a train towards Sallanches. The true window runs from spring to autumn, when owners receive serious buyers: the season is for skiing, not viewing. Home Select groups viewings by slope, Arbois, Rochebrune, Jaillet, so the day tells the truth of the ground.
A mountain chalet is gauged in January: real sunshine, the ski-in return, the heating power. Energy renovation and station rules frame alterations, and the renovated farms of the centre sometimes hide old structures. Home Select’s audit goes to the bottom of these items: between two chalets, they often decide.
Yes, though not as a local branch: outside Île-de-France, Home Select runs every search from its head office, with its network of 15,000 professional partners. Each property is vetted on paper, then toured in a video pre-viewing led with the seller’s agent, and you travel only once, for the decisive viewings. The guide “Buying property in France remotely” spells out how it works.
To hunt in Megève, check four points: a search mandate on the buyer’s side only, published fees due on success, a written method, proof that lasts. Home Select answers all four: founded in 2011, 1,200+ buyers guided, 4.8/5 on Google (140 reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Megève, 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.
The questions common to every city (purchase costs, remote search, choosing your finder) are gathered on one page.
One point of contact, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Megève. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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