Brittany · Ille-et-Vilaine
Saint-Malo was rebuilt stone for stone after 1944, and its market still reads that history: the walled town is a granite perimeter that cannot grow, the Sillon sea wall cannot be lengthened, and the malouinières of the Clos-Poulet can be counted. Against that finite stock, Parisian demand brought within two and a quarter hours by high-speed train, and a British clientele that never left the Emerald Coast.
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The essentials
Home Select is a property finder in Saint-Malo, established in 2011, searching for characterful houses, sea-view apartments and malouinières on the buyer’s behalf alone, from the walled town to the Clos-Poulet. The firm opens access to off-market properties, decisive on a shoreline whose supply no longer expands. Fees are 100 % on success: nothing is owed before completion.
Saint-Malo at a glance
01The market
In 2025, 859 sales were recorded in Saint-Malo: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
After +8% since 2021, the past year pauses (-3%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
Sales range from €2,900/m² to €6,600/m²: address and condition make the price.
Saint-Malo is not one market but four. The walled town lives off the rarity of a closed perimeter and a second-home clientele; the Sillon seafront is paid for in view and in floor level; Paramé and Rothéneuf offer the house with a garden within reach of the beach; Saint-Servan keeps a year-round, more family-minded and more measured use.
The constraint is the same everywhere: coastal supply no longer expands, and the best properties often change hands without ever being listed. Differences turn on aspect, floor level, view and the condition of the granite fabric far more than on floor area.
| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €4,200/m² | 719 |
| 2022 | €4,600/m² | 727 |
| 2023 | €4,600/m² | 481 |
| 2024 | €4,600/m² | 514 |
| 2025 | €4,500/m² | 550 |
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.
| Type | Median €/m² | Median surface | Median home price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 room | €4,800/m² | 27 m² | €130,000 |
| 2 rooms | €4,600/m² | 42 m² | €193,000 |
| 3 rooms | €4,500/m² | 65 m² | €293,000 |
| 4 rooms | €4,100/m² | 80 m² | €328,000 |
| 5 rooms and more | €3,900/m² | 106 m² | €413,000 |
Median home price = median €/m² x median surface of the bracket (2025): an order of magnitude, not a valuation.
| Date | Type | Street | Area | Price | Price per sqm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | houses | Rue Du Castor | 78 m² | €260,000 | €3,300/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Rue De La Treherais | 27 m² | €118,000 | €4,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Chs Du Sillon | 29 m² | €194,000 | €6,700/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Place Anne De Bretagne | 25 m² | €181,000 | €7,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Rue Nicolas Bouvier | 41 m² | €168,000 | €4,100/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Quai Du Val | 82 m² | €400,000 | €4,900/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Rue Du Perou | 78 m² | €245,000 | €3,100/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Rue De La Clarisse | 104 m² | €370,000 | €3,600/m² |
Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices.
The city and its department: Saint-Malo trades 2% below its department median (€4,600/m²), same vintage and same method.
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. Updated: September 2026.
These prices are the registry’s. What your budget really buys in Saint-Malo, address by address and condition included, is the first thing we tell you at the first conversation.
Describe your project in Saint-Malo02The service
A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select in Saint-Malo.
They search on your behalf and for you alone: a written brief, sourcing across the whole market and off-market, pre-visits and a technical sheet for every property shortlisted, analysis of the co-ownership, the surveys and the works, price negotiation, checking of every document up to the final deed. Home Select works for the buyer, never for the seller.
A main home, a second home, a pied-à-terre or a buy-to-let investment in Saint-Malo, whether you are on site or abroad: the search is run remotely, video viewings included, up to the decisive viewing.
Two offers, 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, nothing is due until you have bought.
45 days of search on average, 3 viewings on average instead of more than 40, and a first answer within one working day.
A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.
03The neighbourhoods
From the ramparts to the Clos-Poulet, five addresses and five prices, in a town that runs from the walled city to the shipowners’ countryside.
Behind the ramparts, granite buildings rebuilt after the war to the pre-war design: characterful apartments, some looking out to sea or onto the walls, everything on foot. The most contested segment in town, with no parking and subject to the rules of a protected sector.
The sea wall, the great beach and the buildings that line it: the address for an unbroken sea view, sought after as a second home. Values rise with floor level and aspect; ground floors and the second row open the same district at a gentler price.
East of the Sillon, a fabric of villas and seaside houses running out to the coves of Rothéneuf and Le Minihic. The space and garden the walled town cannot give, with the beach on foot or a few minutes away.
The former commune to the south, with its Solidor tower and the Sablons marina: town houses, apartments overlooking the estuary and services on foot. The district of buyers who live here all year, at more measured values than the seafront.
Between Saint-Malo, Cancale and the Rance, the 17th and 18th-century houses of the shipowners and the stone longères of the plateau. A market of country properties, confidential by nature, where family succession often comes before any sale.
Intra-muros: a characterful apartment behind the ramparts, sometimes looking out to sea. The most closed perimeter in town, with no parking and within a protected sector.
Le Sillon and Courtoisville: the apartment facing the great beach, whose value turns on floor level and aspect. The most legible choice for a second home.
Paramé, Rothéneuf, Saint-Servan: space and a garden within reach of the beach, for regular family use or year-round living.
The Clos-Poulet and the Rance valley: malouinières and stone longères, a confidential market worked through the network and direct approaches.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Saint-Malo. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Saint-Malo, or between an apartment and a house? A property finder visits for you and compares on the spot, before having you travel.
Describe your project in Saint-Malo04Living here
Saint-Malo lives by the tide, and that is not a figure of speech: twice a day the sea uncovers the Grand Bé and the Bon-Secours sea pool, then climbs back against the Sillon wall. The walled town is crossed on foot in ten minutes, between ramparts, shops and terraces; the rest of the town is organised around its beaches, from the Sillon to Rothéneuf.
The town holds up all year, which sets it apart from many coastal markets: a secondary school, a hospital, a commercial and leisure harbour, ferries to the Channel Islands and England, and a TGV station that puts Paris two and a quarter hours away. You can summer here, but you can also live here in February.
05Three projects
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.
Saint-Malo sits in a designated tight housing area and regulates tourist lettings: yield is calculated after reading the municipal rules and the building’s own, never before. Rental demand runs all year thanks to students, the hospital and the port, which sets the town apart from purely seasonal resorts. The real issue remains the fabric: granite, roofs and joinery exposed to salt decide the cost of a property far more than its asking price.
An apartment behind the ramparts, an upper floor on the Sillon with an unbroken view, or a house with a garden in Paramé: Saint-Malo is lived in at weekends all year, two and a quarter hours from Paris by direct train. To investigate: floor level and aspect for the view, parking within the walls, and the constraints of the protected sector if works are planned.
Saint-Malo is one of the few Breton coastal towns where you can genuinely settle: a secondary school, a hospital, shops open in February, a TGV station. Saint-Servan and Paramé carry most of the year-round market, at more measured values than the seafront. The choice turns on the district and the daily journey, not on the view alone.
06From abroad
Saint-Malo has its own TGV station, about two and a quarter hours from Paris-Montparnasse without changing, which makes it one of the few Breton coastal markets reachable from the capital in a day. Dinard-Pleurtuit-Saint-Malo airport is some twenty minutes away and Rennes an hour, both with European links. Ferries run year-round to Jersey, Guernsey and England from the harbour: a gateway the British clientele genuinely uses.
The Emerald Coast keeps a long-standing link with British buyers, sustained by the ferries and by generations of families settled between Saint-Malo and Dinard. The town offers what many resorts do not: year-round services, a hospital, schools and a retail fabric that does not shut in October. A non-resident buyer therefore finds a use here beyond the summer.
The Saint-Malo market has two peaks, spring from April to June and the return in September, when second homes come free after the season. Summer brings the visitors but not the best negotiating conditions. For a non-resident buyer the right window is autumn and winter: less competition, more available sellers, and a town seen as it is eleven months of the year.
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Property finder in Saint-Malo
Everything above, we read for you. Everything below, we do for you.
A property finder in Saint-Malo works for the buyer, and the buyer alone: searching, viewing, checking and negotiating on your behalf. The six steps of the search, access to properties that never appear in listings, and our two offers are detailed below.
07The hunt, step by step
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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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.
Malouin building stock takes wind and salt. Pointing, slate roofs, joinery and ventilation are checked before the offer: this is the item that most often moves a negotiation.
Saint-Malo regulates tourist lettings and the commune sits in a designated tight housing area. The municipal rules and the building’s own are read before a yield calculation is built, never after.
The Sillon in August and the Sillon in February are not the same address. An out-of-season visit, ideally on a spring tide, tells you what no photograph shows.
08Off-market properties
A share of the finest sales in Saint-Malo 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.
These properties are not online: they are shown against a written brief, never a listing. Yours begins with a conversation.
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09Fees
Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
Which offer fits your project
10Client 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 !
Mélanie B. Trouvé en 3 mois après 18 mois seuls
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François D. Acheteur basé en province
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.
Stéphanie et Nicolas P. Recherche depuis l’étranger
Google reviews, gathered through fifteen years of searches. 4.8/5 on Google · 1,200+ buyers guided. Client reviews
11Your project
Because the local market has its own rules. The protected sector of the walled town governs façades, roofs and joinery: works go through the Bâtiments de France architect. A property finder works for you alone, on the buyer’s side: daily monitoring, access to off-market sales around Intra-Muros and Le Sillon and Courtoisville, 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 Saint-Malo stands at €4,500/m² for an apartment and €4,300/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in our survey: Cancale et la pointe du Grouin, €3,400/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 €4,600/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 €193,000; 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.
Saint-Malo gives you the town, shops on foot, the TGV station and four districts at very different prices; Dinard gives you a stock of Belle Époque villas, sheltered beaches and the scale of a resort. The two face each other across the Rance and are often searched in parallel: each has its own page and the figures of its DVF vintage.
Yes: Cancale, the Pointe du Grouin, Saint-Coulomb, the Clos-Poulet and the Rance valley up to Dinan are part of the remit. Dinard and the coast as far as Saint-Briac have their own page.
In 2025, 859 sales were recorded in Saint-Malo: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. After +8% since 2021, the past year pauses (-3%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
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 Saint-Malo, the monitoring covers Intra-Muros and Le Sillon and Courtoisville 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 Saint-Malo, 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 Saint-Malo, the monitoring covers Intra-Muros and Le Sillon and Courtoisville first: that is often where the unfindable property is.
Yes, and that is what protects its value. The walled town is a protected sector: façades, roofs, joinery and signage are governed, and projects go through the Bâtiments de France architect. That lengthens timescales and steers the choice of materials: we cost it with you before the offer, not after completion.
The walled town for rarity and life on foot, the Sillon for an unbroken sea view, Paramé and Rothéneuf for a house with a garden near the beaches, Saint-Servan for year-round use looking over the Rance. The Clos-Poulet if you are after a country property rather than a town address.
Yes, but this is a market of a few properties a year, largely private, where the owning family usually comes before any agency. It is approached through the local network, notaires and direct contact, under a search mandate: precisely the ground where a property finder changes the outcome.
To hunt in Saint-Malo, 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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