Megève, Alpes & lacs
Alps · Haute-Savoie
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.
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The essentials
Home Select is a property finder in Megève, founded in 2011, searching for chalets and apartments on the buyer’s exclusive behalf, from Mont d’Arbois to Rochebrune. The firm opens access to off-market properties, where many chalets change hands without a listing, and charges fees 100% on success.
Megève at a glance
On the ground
In 2025, 231 sales were recorded in Megève: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for apartments is up +22% since 2021, +1% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Sales range from €5,400/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.
| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €7,900/m² | 281 |
| 2022 | €8,800/m² | 276 |
| 2023 | €10,100/m² | 207 |
| 2024 | €9,500/m² | 160 |
| 2025 | €9,600/m² | 197 |
Median for apartments, year by year. A year without enough sales at the threshold is not published: the curve skips the year rather than inventing a point.
| Date | Type | Street | Area | Price | Price per sqm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Chemin Du Golf | 54 m² | €380,000 | €7,000/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Route Edmond De Rothschild | 82 m² | €1,169,000 | €14,300/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Route Du Villaret | 280 m² | €680,000 | €2,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Allée Des Trois Cailloux | 420 m² | €8,500,000 | €20,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Chemin De Riglard | 363 m² | €8,500,000 | €23,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Route Du Telepherique | 45 m² | €332,000 | €7,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Route Du Gollet | 83 m² | €1,171,000 | €14,100/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Allée Du Grenand | 99 m² | €650,000 | €6,600/m² |
Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices. Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property.
Micro-markets
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: prestige chalets in the spruces, summer golf and winter Princess slopes, the palace and its restaurants. The top of the Megève market, where transactions are extremely rare and discreet.
The eastern slope 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.
The southern slope of the village, the sunniest: chalets and residences facing the Mont-Blanc massif, the Jaillet gondola within reach, the Swiss border on the other side. 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 our clients end up making.
Targeting precisely
The village centre: a prestige chalet steps from the square, the church and the shops, for village life year round and regular use.
Le Mont d’Arbois: the most prestigious properties, ski-in ski-out in a wooded setting on the sunny heights. Exclusivity and confidentiality, almost always off-listing.
Rochebrune, Le Jaillet, Combloux and Demi-Quartier: a well-exposed family chalet, slope access or a more rural setting. For a second home enjoyed over the long term.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Megève. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Art de vivre
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.
Non-resident buyers
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.
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.
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.
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Three projects, three markets
The same market does not read the same way depending on what you have come for. Here is what each of the three projects means on the ground.
In Megève, short-term letting is an organised reality, framed by the commune and by building regulations: it is prepared before the purchase, not after. But the market is above all one of families and inheritance. What protects value is the slope, the sunshine and the real walking distance to the centre.
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.
Off-market
A share of the finest sales in Megève completes without ever being listed. The Home Select network of 15,000 professional partners surfaces more than 100 properties every day before publication, and Home Select also approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.
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What Home Select changes
Plus a negotiation led for you: 6% obtained on average on the asking price.
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What negotiation weighs
Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
Price up my search in MegèveThe method
Six precise movements, the same for every search, from the brief to the handover of the keys:
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.
A written brief, and a search launched within the week.
We cover the whole market: published listings, and above all what is never displayed anywhere. Our network of 15,000 professional partners surfaces more than 100 properties for us every day before they go on sale, and we approach owners directly when the setting calls for it.
More than 100 off-market properties surfaced every day by the network.
Every lead is verified, visited or analysed for you: commented video, technical sheet, first figures. You only travel for properties that truly match the brief.
3 viewings on average, instead of 40.
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.
6% obtained on average off the asking price.
Preliminary contract read line by line, surveys, co-ownership rules, charges, easements: every document is checked before you commit. Local points of vigilance, from the coast to the mountains, are in our checklists.
Every document checked before you commit.
We stay by your side through to the signing before the notaire, and after: contractors, formalities, moving. Our work ends when you are settled in, not when the deed is signed.
45 days on average from the brief to the authentic deed.
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Advice from Home Select
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.
Our offers
Exclusive search mandate
2.5% of the net purchase price Minimum €10,000 incl. VAT · every budget
The full service: framing, hunting the whole market including off-list, qualified viewings, negotiation, guidance through to the notaire.
Full fee detail
Simple search mandate
1.5% of the net purchase price Reserved for projects of €2m and above
The same full service, entirely dedicated to off-market properties: only confidential opportunities are presented to you.
Full fee detailPublished fees, no surprises: rare on this market, and deliberate.
Client reviews
Nous à 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 !
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..
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.
Google reviews, gathered through fifteen years of searches. 4.8/5 on Google · 1,200+ buyers guided.
Frequently asked questions
Because the local market has its own rules. Value plays on technical criteria: exposure, ski access, building rights, renovation. A property finder works for you alone, on the buyer’s side: daily monitoring, access to off-market sales around Mont d’Arbois and Rochebrune, 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, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025), the median price in Megève stands at €9,600/m² for an apartment and €15,500/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in our survey: Combloux et Demi-Quartier, €5,900/m² median. These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
In 2025, 2 rooms traded at a median of €9,200/m² per sqm, on a median surface of 42 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €386,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Notaire fees first: around 7 to 8% of the price on an existing home, 2 to 3% on a new build, paid on the day of signing. Then the finder’s fee, due on success only, and depending on the property the taxe foncière, service charges and a works budget. Home Select prices the whole picture before the offer: the asking price hides nothing. Our notary fees calculator gives the order of magnitude in one line.
Both have their case: new for the fittings and the management, old for the location and the charm. We make 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.
In 2025, 231 sales were recorded in Megève: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments is up +22% since 2021, +1% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Our searches complete in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40 and about fifteen hours of your time. In Megève, the monitoring covers Mont d’Arbois and Rochebrune from day one, and the calendar, framed at the brief, is held.
Yes, it is Home Select’s daily routine: 30% of its clients are expatriates or international buyers. Video brief, remote shortlisting and commented pre-visits, viewings grouped into a single trip to Megève, and the team works in French and in English.
Through the network and direct approach: Home Select’s 15,000 professional partners surface more than 100 properties every day before they go on sale, and Home Select also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In Megève, the monitoring covers Mont d’Arbois and Rochebrune first: 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.
Megève carries one of the best-paid seasons in the French Alps, Christmas and February first, and rental management is a serious industry here. Residence rules and the commune frame short lets. Many owners keep their weeks and let the rest: the chalet pays its own upkeep. That project is planned into the choice of property.
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. We group 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. Our audit goes to the bottom of these items: between two chalets, they often decide.
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 (130+ reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select 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. Home Select is paid on success only: nothing is due until you have bought.
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