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Bordeaux, Gironde · Neighbourhood
Saint-Genès and Nansouty form the residential south of Bordeaux, from the place de la Victoire down to the boulevards, around the cours de la Somme, the barrière Saint-Genès and the place Nansouty. Families look there for a double échoppe with a south-facing garden or a townhouse with an upper floor, on a street away from the cours. Home Select searches there for the buyer alone: watching sales that never reach a listing, sorting sound échoppes from those to rebuild, negotiating and securing the purchase through to the keys.
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01Neighbourhood
Saint-Genès and Nansouty are neighbourhoods for walking and cycling, between the barrière Saint-Genès and the place Nansouty. Tram line B runs along the cours de l’Argonne, stops at the barrière Saint-Genès and reaches the centre in a few stations. The cours de l’Argonne and the cours de la Somme hold the local shops, while the boulevard George-V draws the line with Talence. The Nansouty market fills the square, and the side streets fall quiet as soon as you leave the cours. The Talence university campus is a few tram B stops beyond the boulevards.
The Saint-Genès La Salle school, on the rue de Saint-Genès, shapes daily life for many families in the neighbourhood, from nursery to secondary school. The residential streets away from the cours see little through traffic. Central Bordeaux is a straight ride by bike along the cours de l’Argonne or the cours de la Somme. The food shops of the cours and the market cover the week’s shopping.
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02Neighbourhood
The Bordeaux échoppe dominates the housing stock of Saint-Genès and Nansouty: a single-storey house in pale stone, façade on the street, garden or courtyard behind. The simple échoppe has one door and one window on the street; the double échoppe has a central door between two windows, a corridor and one room on the street on each side. Townhouses with an upper floor, courtyard or small garden cluster towards the cours de la Somme and the place Nansouty. A few small buildings of two or three floors complete the picture, often on the corners.
The renovated double échoppe with a south-facing garden is the rare property of Saint-Genès and Nansouty, the one that often sells privately before any listing. A single échoppe with an added storey or a garden-side extension trades above the Bordeaux median for houses when the works were authorised. An échoppe to rebuild entirely is negotiated on the cost of the works: structure, damp, roof, utilities.
Streets and micro-sectors
The barrière Saint-Genès is the gateway to the neighbourhood from the boulevards, with the tram B stop of the same name. Around the barrière, apartment buildings and shops quickly give way to échoppes once you leave the main road. Buyers here want the tram without the noise of the boulevards.
The cours de la Somme crosses Nansouty, from the place de la Victoire down to the boulevards. Shops and townhouses with an upper floor gather on the cours. The side streets grow quieter with every house number: the price gap with the second parallel street is clear.
The place Nansouty and its market are the commercial heart of Nansouty. The streets around the square line up simple and double échoppes, with a courtyard or a garden, sought by families for the market close by. Townhouses with an upper floor gather in the immediate surroundings of the square.
The rue de Saint-Genès carries the Saint-Genès La Salle school and runs through the residential heart of the neighbourhood. The boulevard George-V closes Saint-Genès to the south and separates Bordeaux from Talence. At equal size, échoppes near the boulevard sell for less than those on inner streets: the noise is priced in.
03Neighbourhood
Home Select searches Saint-Genès and Nansouty ahead of the listings. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day from its network of 15,000 professional partners, which opens the door to the échoppes that change hands between neighbours or through a local notary, without ever appearing in a listing. The written brief sets the street, the orientation of the garden, the condition accepted and the renovation budget. The buyer's agent has a video pre-viewing of every property carried out before involving the buyer.
Before any offer on an échoppe, the buyer's agent checks the planning permissions for extensions and whether a crawl space exists. Also have the walls probed for damp and the roof and its timbers inspected by a building surveyor. For a buyer coming from far away, the video pre-viewing does the sorting: only the shortlisted properties are viewed, with the decisive viewings grouped into a single trip. Have the works costed by a professional before the offer: the negotiation covers the price and those figures.
An échoppe extended on the garden side is worth what its permit is worth. The buyer's agent requests the prior declaration or planning permission, compares the plans with what was built, as filmed in the video pre-viewing, and checks compliance with the local planning code. An unauthorised extension is sometimes regularised, sometimes demolished: the price accounts for it before signing, not after.
Between a simple and a double échoppe, the width of the façade commands the light, the layout and the value. The buyer's agent measures the façade and the depth of the plot on the cadastral plan before shortlisting a property. A deep, well-oriented simple échoppe can be worth more than a dark double one on a narrow courtyard.
In Saint-Genès and Nansouty, the street is worth as much as the house. The buyer's agent records the traffic, the presence of the tram, the distance to the Saint-Genès La Salle school and the Nansouty market, then the orientation of the garden. Two identical échoppes three streets apart do not sell for the same price.
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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
An échoppe in Saint-Genès and Nansouty generally sells above the Bordeaux median for houses, without reaching the prices of the Triangle d’Or or Les Chartrons. The DVF, 12 months to end of June 2026 survey gives no median at neighbourhood level: value is read property by property, according to the width of the façade, the condition, the garden and the street. An échoppe to rebuild entirely trades well below a renovated one.
Saint-Genès and Nansouty mostly offer Bordeaux échoppes, simple or double, single-storey or raised, with a courtyard or garden. Townhouses with an upper floor sit towards the cours de la Somme and the place Nansouty, and a few small buildings provide one- and two-bedroom flats. Large apartments with a lift are rare in the neighbourhood.
Yes, Saint-Genès and Nansouty rank among the family neighbourhoods of Bordeaux. Family demand focuses on the inner streets, from which children walk to Saint-Genès La Salle and cycle to the Nansouty market, with tram B taking over towards the centre and the campus. For each property, the buyer's agent remotely checks the journey to the chosen school and the traffic on the street at drop-off and pick-up times.
An échoppe in Saint-Genès and Nansouty is renovated under two constraints: the local planning code for garden extensions and added floors, and, within the protected perimeter, the opinion of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France for the façade, the joinery and the roof. The clay soil means damp is treated before any finishing. The buyer's agent gathers these checks before the offer.
The timing depends on the brief and on how rare the échoppes 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 the neighbourhood, the best échoppes often sell privately: Home Select hears of them before any listing through its network of 15,000 partners and the off-market properties surfaced every day. First reply 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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