Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - The Place de la Bourse and the water mirror
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Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you in Bordeaux. 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 Bordeaux, founded in 2011, searching for apartments and private mansions exclusively on the buyer’s behalf. From the Triangle d’Or to Les Chartrons, Home Select opens access to off-market properties sold by private agreement. Fees 100% on success: nothing is owed before the purchase completes.
The blond stone of the Triangle d’Or, the wine merchants’ houses of Les Chartrons, the double échoppes of Caudéran: Bordeaux is one of the most contested heritage markets in France, two hours from Paris. Exceptional properties first circulate in a narrow circle of professionals and families.
A buyer’s agent works for the buyer, and for the buyer alone. Here is what Home Select changes, concretely, for your purchase in Bordeaux.
Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - The rooftops and the Garonne from Pey-Berland
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 Bordeaux 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.
Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - The Garonne quays at sunset
A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select in Bordeaux.
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 Bordeaux, 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 Bordeaux 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.
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Built on clay soil, often without a crawl space, échoppes call for a survey of walls and floors against rising damp, and a reading of local planning rules if you intend to raise the roof or extend towards the garden.
Within the Port de la Lune perimeter, facades, joinery and roofs are restored under the supervision of the state heritage architect. Ask for past permits and facade works, and cost a compliant restoration before you make an offer.
The finest addresses trade by private agreement: financing validated, notary appointed and criteria settled in advance allow you to commit from the first viewing, for a property that will never appear in an advertisement.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Bordeaux, 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 Bordeaux 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.
Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - A narrow street in old Bordeaux
Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - A street of pale stone façades
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 Bordeaux.
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.
Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - The balconies of a Bordeaux façade
Page updated on 20 October 2026, reviewed by Jean Mascla, founder of Home Select
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 4,751 sales were recorded in Bordeaux: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for apartments has moved -11% since June 2022 and -1% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.
Sales range from €2,700/m² to €5,600/m²: address and condition make the price.
Bordeaux is a market of stone as much as of city: eighteenth-century blond stone, classified facades, streets with name plates. The whole Port de la Lune is Unesco-listed, which protects the centre and freezes supply: exceptional properties first circulate in a narrow circle of professionals and families.
The house with a garden, from the double échoppe of Caudéran to the properties of Le Bouscat, is the most contested object of the metropolis: well-exposed examples go within days, often without full publicity. On family quarters like Saint-Genès or Nansouty, monitoring beats searching.
Technical expertise carries weight: damp of the clay subsoil, facades to be restored by the rules of the classification, surveys of old buildings. And many projects open onto the vineyard, from Saint-Émilion to the Graves, which Home Select handles case by case when the project calls for it.
| 12 months to end of June | Median | Sales counted (apartments) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | €4,600/m² | 4,533 |
| 2023 | €4,600/m² | 4,036 |
| 2024 | €4,300/m² | 2,968 |
| 2025 | €4,100/m² | 3,523 |
| 2026 | €4,100/m² | 3,714 |
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: Bordeaux trades 14% above its department median (€3,600/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.
Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - The great staircase of the Jardin Public
Bordeaux reads facade by facade: each quarter keeps the temperament that trade, stone and old families once gave it.
The triangle between the allées de Tourny, the cours Georges-Clemenceau and the Jardin Public: private mansions, eighteenth-century cut-stone buildings, noble floors with enfilades. The top of the Bordeaux market, where fine addresses often sell by private agreement.
The wine-merchants’ quarter along the Garonne: former trading houses with vaulted cellars, through floors, rare town gardens. A character market, tastefully restored, prized by families and lovers of fine stone.
The residential quarter of the west, around the park of Caudéran and the good schools: renovated double échoppes, mansions, properties with gardens. The most contested object of the metropolis: faultless examples go within days.
The family quarters south of the centre: Bordeaux échoppes, town houses with courtyards, quiet streets a bike ride from the centre. A deep but fast market, where sorting sound échoppes from those to be taken over entirely makes all the value.
The natural continuation of Caudéran, on the other side of the park: family houses, tree-lined residences, the racecourse and its meetings. A discreet market, where the proximity of the centre and the quality of the parks make some of the most held values of the metropolis.
The Bordeaux side of the Garonne facing Les Chartrons: La Bastide and its neighbourhood houses, the parc aux angéliques and the Jacques-Chaban-Delmas bridge, Darwin and the reworked quays, Cenon and Lormont nearby. The metro area's gentlest values, five minutes from the centre by tram.
The market, the neighbourhoods, the addresses
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Bordeaux at a glance
Bordeaux mornings often begin at the Capucins market, among oyster stalls from the basin and ceps in season, before a walk along the quays to the Chartrons market. The city holds to its institutions: the Mollat bookshop, the Grand Théâtre, the Utopia cinema set in a former church, the CAPC in the old Entrepôt Lainé. In the evening, tables divide between the wine bars of Les Chartrons and the bistros of place du Parlement, with the river as horizon.
The Garonne sets the pace: morning runs along the quays, the miroir d’eau on place de la Bourse, Sunday rides across to the right bank and the gardens of Darwin. Weekends are written beyond the walls, among the vines of Saint-Émilion or the Graves, the beaches of the basin, the pines of Cap Ferret. September brings the harvest, spring the primeurs week: the city lives by the wine calendar. Paris stays two hours away by TGV, and many lives run between the two.
Bordeaux brings together a solid employment base, a university, a teaching hospital and two hours from Paris by TGV: a city where people settle for the long term. The Triangle d’Or, Les Chartrons and the échoppes with gardens in Caudéran are the addresses people keep. The local issue is the fabric. Échoppes, honey-coloured stone and older buildings call for a serious survey: damp, roof timbers, facade works. Have them costed before the offer: that is where the true price is decided.
A flat in the Triangle d’Or or a merchant’s house in Les Chartrons: Bordeaux is an urban second home, two hours from Paris. The criterion that changes everything is outdoor space, courtyard or garden, and the real light reaching lower floors in narrow streets. Home Select always has that light checked on a video viewing, at two different times of day.
Bordeaux is easy to settle into: schools, a university, a teaching hospital, an airport and TGV. Families aim for Caudéran, Saint-Genès and Le Bouscat for the échoppe with a garden, Les Chartrons and the Jardin Public for life on foot. Arcachon bay is under an hour away, which explains a good share of the city’s residential trade-offs.
Bordeaux is one of the fastest French cities to reach from Paris: the TGV links Saint-Jean station in 2 hours, with direct services to Lille, Brussels and Strasbourg. Bordeaux-Mérignac airport, 20 minutes from the centre, offers more than 80 direct destinations, including London, Brussels, Munich, Rome, Amsterdam, Marrakech and Canada. For North America and the Gulf, one stop via Paris, Amsterdam or Frankfurt is enough.
The international community in Bordeaux. Bordeaux hosts an active international community, carried by its universities, its wine houses and a way of life that keeps people. Schools, services and the administration are used to foreign files. The difficulty lies elsewhere: the listed centre sets its own rules, and the value of an 18th-century building turns on the state of its floors, its stone and its co-ownership. Home Select has those points checked before the offer, not after.
When to visit, when to buy? The Bordeaux market is active year round, with a spring peak, March to June, when fine central homes change hands quickly, and a second window in September and October. Summer slows viewings without halting transactions. For a remote buyer, the mid-season is the best period: mild climate, long days and slightly less tight demand. The quieter winter sometimes opens room to negotiate on homes that have sat for several months.
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Atlantic Coast - Bordeaux - Saint-Émilion and its vineyards
Because the local market has its own rules. The expertise of stone: listed facades, damp, renovations to audit seriously. 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 Bordeaux stands at €4,100/m² for an apartment and €4,800/m² for a house. Across the sectors of the survey, the median ranges from €2,700/m² (Rive droite: Cenon, Lormont, Floirac) to €3,800/m² (Le Bouscat). 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 €4,200/m², on a median surface of 45 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 €189,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Home Select searches across the whole Bordeaux metropolitan area and the surrounding vineyards, not only the city itself. Le Bouscat, the neighbouring commune, trades around a median of €3,800 per m² (DVF, 12 months to end of June 2026), below central Bordeaux. Wine estates, from Saint-Émilion to the Graves, call for a bespoke search built on a written brief. Arcachon and the bay are handled separately.
A purchase in Bordeaux can be run remotely with a buyer’s agent; only the decisive viewings require a trip. Home Select writes the brief by video call, sources off-market properties and qualifies every address on file, then on a video viewing. You view only the shortlisted properties, your decisive viewings grouped into a single trip, and Home Select brings you through to an accepted offer. First reply within 24 working hours.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 4,751 sales were recorded in Bordeaux: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments has moved -11% since June 2022 and -1% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Bordeaux 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 Bordeaux, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Triangle d’Or and Jardin Public, then Les Chartrons. That is often where the unfindable property is.
The stone apartment and the échoppe are two ways of living in Bordeaux, at similar prices: a median of €4,100 per m² for apartments, €4,800 for houses (DVF, 12 months to end of June 2026). The eighteenth-century apartment gives volumes, an enfilade and the centre on foot. The échoppe gives single-level living, a garden and room to extend, subject to the local plan. Home Select settles that choice in the brief and searches in one register.
Bordeaux sells eighteenth-century blond stone and single-storey échoppes, at prices spread from €2,700 to €5,600 per m² across the DVF deciles over the 12 months to end of June 2026. The étage noble and its enfilade, the through-floor of a former wine merchant’s house, the single échoppe of one bay or the double, the maison de maître and its garden: each type has its own streets. A buyer’s agent settles the type from the intended use first.
Before an offer in Bordeaux, a buyer's agent checks the property, its rules and its price. The property: a video viewing, the surveys and the co-ownership minutes. The rules: the local plan (PLU) and the UNESCO-listed perimeter, which govern any alteration. The price: measured against the DVF sales in the sector over the 12 months to end of June 2026, in a market down 11% since June 2022. Home Select then negotiates for you, those actual sales in hand.
In Bordeaux, three buying projects call for three different searches. A main residence points to an échoppe or a townhouse near schools and the tram. An urban second home, two hours from Paris, favours a stone apartment in the listed centre, with no garden to maintain. A wine pied-à-terre serves the September harvest and the spring en primeur week. Home Select writes a separate brief for each.
A day of viewings in Bordeaux fits into a single return trip, Saint-Jean station being two hours from Paris by TGV. Home Select qualifies every property on file then on a video viewing, and groups the shortlist by sector: on foot between the Triangle d’Or and Les Chartrons, by tram (lines A to D) towards Caudéran or Le Bouscat. The offer can go in the same evening, the financing file having been prepared before the trip.
On a Bordeaux échoppe, works fall into three items: damp, the extension and the envelope. Built on clay soil, often with no crawl space, the échoppe first needs rising damp treated. The garden-side extension falls under the local plan, and an undeclared one is regularised before the sale. Inside the listed perimeter, facades, joinery and roofs go through the Architecte des Bâtiments de France. Have every item costed first: Home Select negotiates on those figures.
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 Bordeaux, 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 (139 reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Bordeaux, 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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One point of contact, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Bordeaux. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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