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Bordeaux, Gironde · Neighbourhood
The Triangle d’Or, bounded by the allées de Tourny, the cours Clemenceau and the cours de l’Intendance, and the Jardin Public that extends it to the north form the top of Bordeaux’s residential market. Home Select searches there for the buyer alone, with access to the grand apartments and hôtels particuliers that sell before any listing appears.
A first confidential conversation, with no commitment
01Neighbourhood
Daily life in the Triangle d’Or happens on foot, inside the tight perimeter closed by the allées de Tourny, the cours Clemenceau and the cours de l’Intendance. Fine food shops and cafés hold the side streets between the place des Grands-Hommes and the allées rather than the main axes. Residents walk to the Grand Théâtre at the end of the day and to the Jardin Public in the morning, without a car. The Grands-Hommes market sits under its glass rotunda, a few steps from the boutiques of the Intendance.
The Jardin Public is the district’s park, a garden laid out in the eighteenth century and redrawn in the English style in the nineteenth, enclosed by railings, with its pond, its lawns and the Muséum de Bordeaux. Families from the Triangle d’Or spend Wednesdays and weekends there, runners the early mornings. The city-centre schools are within walking distance. The tram stops at the Quinconces, at the end of the allées de Tourny, and runs to Saint-Jean station, where the TGV reaches Paris in two hours.
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02Neighbourhood
Most of the Triangle d’Or was built in the eighteenth century: hôtels particuliers set between courtyard and garden, stone apartment buildings, façades aligned along the cours. The piano nobile, on the first storey, has the highest ceilings, the enfilades of drawing rooms and the wrought-iron balconies. The upper floors are divided into more compact apartments. Under the roofs, a few attics have been converted with terraces, which are rare in the protected perimeter. Inner courtyards give the dual-aspect apartments a second, silent light.
What sells in the Triangle d’Or often sells without a listing. Grand apartments on the piano nobile and entire hôtels particuliers change hands privately, between families, notaries and buyer’s agents in the network. Eighteenth-century buildings are read through their common parts: stone staircase, wrought-iron banister, cobbled courtyard, a lift added later or impossible to fit. A whole floor to renovate is negotiated; an apartment restored by the rules is paid at the top of the Bordeaux market.
Streets and micro-sectors
The allées de Tourny line up the most regular façades in the district, facing the Grand Théâtre. Reception apartments occupy the piano nobile floors, with balconies over the allées. The noise from the café terraces is checked visit by visit: the rooms on the courtyard are the quietest.
The cours de l’Intendance holds the luxury brands, with residential floors above the shop windows. The place des Grands-Hommes and its covered market serve as the neighbourhood square. Apartments here are sought for the shops within walking distance rather than for quiet: the inner courtyards make the difference.
The cours Xavier-Arnozan climbs from the quai des Chartrons to the Jardin Public and lines up eighteenth-century hôtels particuliers, with courtyard and garden. It is the quietest part of the district, with the park railings closing the view. Properties rarely reach an agency here: many are sold off-market.
The rue Vital-Carles runs down from the cours de l’Intendance to Saint-André cathedral, south of the triangle. Dressed stone and ground-floor shops mix along it. The cours Clemenceau closes the triangle on the west side, with bourgeois buildings and apartments often larger than on the Intendance: the buyer’s agent compares the price per square metre with the allées before advising on an offer.
03Neighbourhood
Home Select searches the Triangle d’Or before properties come to market. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day from its network of 15,000 professional partners. In the Triangle d’Or the sources are known: notaries, managing agents, city-centre agencies, families selling privately. The written brief states the floor, the orientation, whether a lift is required and the level of quiet expected. The buyer’s agent presents only what matches.
Before any offer, Home Select audits the apartment and the building from the documents. In the Triangle d’Or, the audit goes through the planning department, to learn what the Architecte des Bâtiments de France will allow on façade and roof, and through the surveys. Have a professional cost the restoration by the rules before the offer. For a buyer from Paris, London or Geneva, 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. The negotiation rests on that file, not on impulse.
In the Triangle d’Or, the floor sets the price and the way of living. The piano nobile is paid for its volumes and lived with the noise of the allées; the top floor is paid for its light and lived with the stairs when a lift could never be fitted. The buyer’s agent has the brief state the lowest floor accepted, whether a lift is required, and the discount expected if the buyer does without one.
An eighteenth-century building is read in its meeting minutes. In them, the buyer's agent checks the façade works approved or pending, the state of the staircase and the listed common parts, works refused in the past and the real service charges. A perfect apartment in a building in litigation is not presented.
The cours and allées of the Triangle d’Or stay lively late. A first video pre-viewing on a weekday and a second in the evening or on a Saturday, windows open, settle the case of an address on the allées before the buyer is brought in. A bedroom on the courtyard, restored windows and a high floor make the difference between an address and an apartment where one actually sleeps.
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
The Triangle d’Or sits at the top of the Bordeaux market, well above the city-wide median of €4,100 per m² recorded for apartments over the 12 months to end of June 2026 (DVF). 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 (DVF deciles); a restored piano nobile is valued property by property, on the comparable sales the buyer’s agent gathers before any offer.
The Triangle d’Or offers mostly period apartments in dressed stone, from the studio under the roof to the grand apartment on the piano nobile. Entire hôtels particuliers, with courtyard and garden, are the exception, usually on the cours Xavier-Arnozan and around the Jardin Public. Attics with a terrace remain rare. Houses are almost absent from this perimeter: for a house with a garden, Home Select steers buyers towards Caudéran or Le Bouscat.
The Triangle d’Or suits a family that wants to do everything on foot: the Jardin Public for the children, the city-centre schools, the market on the place des Grands-Hommes. The tram from the Quinconces reaches Saint-Jean station and its TGVs to Paris. A car is more of a burden than an asset in this perimeter: a parking space is negotiated separately and remains rare.
Interior works remain possible in the Triangle d’Or, within the limits of the protected perimeter. Façades, windows and roofs are restored under the control of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France, who requires materials and designs faithful to the original. The listed common parts of a hôtel particulier are not altered without authorisation. Reconfiguring a piano nobile remains possible, provided the existing décor is respected and, as soon as a load-bearing wall or a common part is affected, the co-ownership agrees.
Home Select sets the timetable from the first brief, then keeps to it. In the Triangle d’Or, the timing depends on the tip-off: a piano nobile coming free is known to the notary, the managing agent and the neighbouring families before it is known to the market. The buyer’s agent keeps those sources warm, has a video pre-viewing carried out as soon as word comes, and shows only what meets the brief.
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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