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Bordeaux, Gironde · Neighbourhood
Les Chartrons is the former wine merchants’ district of Bordeaux, between the Garonne quay and the Jardin Public, where merchant houses, stone apartments and lofts in converted chais change hands. Home Select searches there for the buyer alone, off-market included, checks every property before the offer and negotiates through to the keys.
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01Neighbourhood
Daily life in Les Chartrons revolves around rue Notre-Dame and the covered market hall on place du Marché-des-Chartrons. Rue Notre-Dame lines up antique dealers, galleries, wine shops and restaurants along a single narrow street. The nineteenth-century Halle des Chartrons hosts exhibitions and events. On Sunday mornings the Chartrons market fills the quay along the Garonne. Bakeries, nursery and primary schools sit within walking distance of most streets, which matters to the families who settle here.
Tram line B runs along quai des Chartrons and reaches place des Quinconces in a few minutes, the Cité du Vin and the Bassins à flot in the other direction. Tram line C serves the western edge of the district, by the Jardin Public, and continues to Saint-Jean station. The Jardin Public is the main green space of Les Chartrons, with its lawns, its pond and its natural history museum. The landscaped quays serve cyclists and runners as far as Bacalan.
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02Neighbourhood
The merchant house is the building type specific to Les Chartrons. A stone façade of two or three storeys faces the street, with former offices and living quarters, and the plot runs deep behind it: a courtyard, then a chai, sometimes a vaulted cellar. These ensembles rarely sell whole, as many were divided into lots when the district was renovated. A complete house with its chai and a town garden is among the rarest properties in the district and often changes hands privately, without a listing.
The stone buildings of Les Chartrons, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, hold dual-aspect apartments, street to courtyard, with high ceilings, parquet floors and fireplaces. Converted chais provide open-plan lofts, often on the ground floor or at the back of the plot, where natural light and ventilation have to be checked on site. On the same street, a cleaned building and its still-blackened neighbour stand side by side, and the gap shows from the façade: washed stone, replaced windows, repaired roof.
Streets and micro-sectors
Quai des Chartrons has the best-known façades in the district, facing the Garonne. Upper-floor apartments gain the river view and the evening light. They also get the tram, the traffic and the terraces: double glazing and the position of the bedrooms are checked first.
Rue Notre-Dame and the streets around the hall form the commercial heart of Les Chartrons. The narrow stone buildings offer one- to three-bedroom apartments, sought after for the shops and the market hall on foot. Ground-floor shops and evening activity count in the decision.
Cours Portal and cours du Médoc run west from the quay, and cours du Médoc marks the northern edge of Les Chartrons, before Bacalan and the Bassins à flot. Between the two, around rue Borie, plots run deeper, with former chais and workshops at the back of the courtyard. This sector concentrates the lofts and the complete merchant houses, on quieter streets where restored and untouched façades alternate.
Towards the Jardin Public, on the western side of the district, the buildings of Les Chartrons become more bourgeois: dressed-stone façades with piano nobile floors, a few private mansions, residential streets. Families choose this sector for the park and the schools, a few minutes on foot from tram line C.
03Neighbourhood
Home Select follows Les Chartrons street by street, with a written brief that sets the acceptable streets, the floor, the orientation and the level of quayside noise the buyer will tolerate. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day from its network of 15,000 professional partners, and so reaches the merchant houses and large apartments sold privately, before any listing. The buyer's agent has a video pre-viewing of every property carried out before presenting it.
Before the offer, the buyer’s agent audits from the documents what makes the value or the risk of a property in Les Chartrons: minutes of the co-owners’ meetings, façade works approved or pending, compliance of extensions and divisions with the PLU, Bâtiments de France constraints on windows and roofs. Also have the damp in the cellars and chais probed by a building surveyor. For buyers travelling from afar, the buyer’s agent has a video pre-viewing carried out and keeps only the properties that meet the brief: only those are viewed, with the decisive viewings grouped into a single trip, and Home Select then negotiates for the buyer alone.
An apartment on quai des Chartrons is not the same at ten in the morning and at ten at night. The tram, the terraces and the Sunday market cannot be heard on a weekday at noon. The buyer's agent has a second video pre-viewing carried out at the least favourable time before advising an offer, above all for bedrooms on the street side.
In a merchant house or a loft, the value lies in the chai: its height, its roof structure, its floor and its buried walls. Have the traces of damp and the condition of the beams examined by a building surveyor before the offer. The buyer's agent checks the use recorded in the co-ownership rules, which decides whether the volume is habitable or remains an annex.
The division of a merchant house into lots is checked in the deeds before the price is paid. The buyer's agent confirms that the division was declared, that the co-ownership rules reflect it and that each lot is separately metered. An irregular division is negotiated hard or declined, whatever the charm of the apartment.
A buyer’s agent answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.
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. On top comes 10% of the negotiated reduction: Home Select is also paid on what you save.
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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Frequently asked questions
Prices in Les Chartrons sit above the Bordeaux median, which stands at €4,100 per m² for apartments over the 12 months to end of June 2026 according to DVF data, without reaching the top of the Triangle d’Or. Home Select does not publish prices by district: the DVF record covers the commune as a whole. Most Bordeaux sales fall between €2,700 and €5,600 per m²: a restored apartment on the quay sits in the upper part of that range, a unit in need of renovation at the back of a courtyard sits lower.
Les Chartrons offers four types: dual-aspect apartments in stone buildings, lofts in former chais, merchant houses with courtyard and chai, and a few échoppes in the side streets. A town garden, where one exists, sits at the back of the plot, behind the chai. One- to three-bedroom apartments make up most sales, while complete ensembles are often traded off-market.
Yes, Les Chartrons is one of the family districts of central Bordeaux, with two- and three-bedroom apartments in the stone buildings and divided merchant houses. State schools follow catchment sectors that change from one street to the next: the buyer's agent checks the catchment of the exact address before the offer. The Jardin Public and its playgrounds are on foot, the centre a few minutes away on tram B.
Interior works in an apartment in Les Chartrons fall under the co-ownership rules and, for load-bearing walls or common areas, require a vote at the general meeting. Within the listed perimeter of the Port de la Lune, façades, windows and roofs are restored under the supervision of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France, with review periods to plan for. A garden-side extension or a change of use of a chai falls under the PLU and requires planning consent.
The timing depends on the brief and on how rare the properties sought are: Home Select sets the timetable from the first brief, then keeps to it, and the buyer views only the shortlisted properties, first seen on video. Off-market properties exist in Les Chartrons, above all merchant houses and large apartments sold directly by owners who refuse a public listing. For projects of €2 million and above, the Confidential Offer presents off-market properties only.
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.
What happens next
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