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Bordeaux, Gironde · Neighbourhood
Le Bouscat is the residential commune that continues Caudéran to the north-west of Bordeaux, between the Parc Bordelais and the racecourse, linked to the centre by tram line D. Home Select hunts there for the buyer alone: bourgeois houses, échoppes and villas with gardens, often before they are listed.
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01Neighbourhood
Avenue de la Libération is the backbone of Le Bouscat. It starts at the Barrière du Médoc, where the Bordeaux boulevards end, and runs north through the whole commune. Tram line D has followed it since 2019 and reaches the centre of Bordeaux without a change. Food shops, cafés and the town hall cluster around this Libération centre. The rest of the commune is quiet streets, houses and gardens, covered on foot or by bicycle.
Parks give Le Bouscat its breathing space. The Parc Bordelais, on the Caudéran side, is a walk from the streets in the south of the commune. Further north, the Bois du Bouscat and the Parc de l’Ermitage offer walks under the trees. The racecourse has held meetings since the nineteenth century, and its lawns open up the horizon of a neighbourhood of villas. Families choose the commune for schools within walking distance and for a slower pace than central Bordeaux, a few tram stops away.
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02Neighbourhood
The housing stock of Le Bouscat tells two periods. Along the avenues and around Sainte-Germaine, late nineteenth-century bourgeois houses line up their stone façades, high ceilings and walled gardens. In the cross streets, Bordeaux échoppes, single or double, follow one another at ground level, often extended on the garden side. Towards the racecourse and the Godard sector, twentieth-century villas sit on wider plots with a garage and mature trees, alongside a few recent residences.
What sells in Le Bouscat sells fast when the property is rare. A bourgeois house with a real garden, within walking distance of the tram, often finds a buyer before any listing, through word of mouth among notaries and neighbours. The renovated double échoppe with an extension is the property families compete for hardest. Apartments, in tree-lined residences and a few recent buildings, leave more room to negotiate. Before the offer, the buyer's agent checks from the documents that extensions are compliant. Also have the joinery inspected and the clay soil that shifts beneath échoppes probed by a building surveyor.
Streets and micro-sectors
The commercial heart of the commune, from the Barrière du Médoc to the town hall. Older buildings on the avenue, townhouses on the street and échoppes in the side roads. This is the sector for buyers who want everything on foot, tram included. Properties go quickly.
The neighbourhood of the church and the schools, between Avenue de la Libération and Caudéran. Two-storey bourgeois houses, double échoppes, tree-lined streets. Sainte-Germaine is where families settle when they leave central Bordeaux without leaving the city. Gardens run deeper here than along the boulevards.
The north-west of the commune, around the racecourse tracks and the Bois du Bouscat. Villas on large plots, tree-lined residences, a few contemporary houses. This is the greenest sector of Le Bouscat, where buyers pay for space and quiet rather than for the tram at the end of the street.
A more mixed fabric: échoppes, small townhouses, residences from recent decades. Prices sit below Sainte-Germaine and the Libération centre for the same floor area. This is where a house to renovate can still be found, with a garden and some margin for negotiation.
03Neighbourhood
Home Select hunts in Le Bouscat before the listing. The buyer's agent monitors the portals, but most bourgeois houses and double échoppes surface through the network: notaries, agencies in Caudéran and Le Bouscat, tradespeople, neighbours. The written brief, signed with the buyer, frames the search: sector, garden size, distance to the tram, renovation budget. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day from its network of 15,000 partners, and those in Le Bouscat are filtered against that brief.
Before any offer, the buyer's agent audits the house from the documents. In Le Bouscat, that means checking that the garden-side extension was declared, reading the surveys and comparing the floor area with the cadastre. Also have the walls of an échoppe probed for rising damp and the roof and the joinery inspected by a building surveyor. For a buyer coming from Paris or from abroad, the buyer's agent has a video pre-viewing carried out and keeps only the properties that match the brief: only those are viewed, with the decisive viewings grouped into a single trip, and the negotiation follows without delay.
In Le Bouscat, value lies in the garden. Two échoppes of the same floor area sell at very different prices depending on the depth and orientation of the plot. The buyer's agent reads the cadastre, the remaining building footprint and the local planning rules before judging a price.
Tram line D has structured the commune since 2019. A house a few minutes on foot from a stop resells faster and negotiates less. The buyer's agent remotely calculates that walk, at school-run time, before setting the amount of the offer.
An échoppe extended on the garden side appeals at once. The buyer's agent asks for the works declaration, compliance with the local plan and the ten-year structural insurance if the extension is less than ten years old. An extension without permission is negotiated hard, or set aside.
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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
Le Bouscat sits below the Bordeaux median, with a median of 3,800 €/m² in the DVF records over the 12 months to end of June 2026, against 4,100 €/m² for apartments and 4,800 €/m² for houses in Bordeaux. Bourgeois houses in Sainte-Germaine and the Libération centre sit above that median, the northern sectors below it. Home Select does not publish prices by micro-sector: value is read property by property.
Le Bouscat sells houses above all: bourgeois houses, single and double échoppes, villas with gardens. Apartments are found in tree-lined residences and a few recent buildings along Avenue de la Libération. The rare properties are houses with a real garden within walking distance of the tram, which often change hands off-market.
Yes, Le Bouscat is one of the family communes of the Bordeaux metropolitan area. Schools are reached on foot, parks by bicycle, and tram line D takes you to central Bordeaux without a car. Sainte-Germaine and the Libération centre are the sectors families ask for most; the north is quieter and greener.
Le Bouscat falls under the Bordeaux Métropole local plan, outside the listed perimeter of central Bordeaux. Garden-side extensions, added storeys and façade changes require a declaration or a permit depending on their scale. The buyer's agent checks the permissions for existing work and the feasibility of what the buyer plans, before the offer.
The timing depends on the brief and on how rare the houses 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. In Le Bouscat, a share of houses sells off-market, through notaries and local agencies. The buyer's agent reaches them before they are listed, which shortens the search and avoids bidding wars. A first reply arrives within 24 working hours.
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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