Cap Ferret, Sud-Ouest
Atlantic Coast · Gironde
On the Lège-Cap-Ferret peninsula, most fine sales happen by private agreement, in a narrow circle of families and insiders: villas under the pines of the point, houses of the oyster-farming villages of Le Canon and L’Herbe, the ocean front of Truc Vert. Gaining access is precisely our job.
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The essentials
Home Select has worked as a property finder on the Cap Ferret since 2011, searching for villas and houses on the buyer’s exclusive behalf, from the pine-shaded tip of the peninsula to the oyster-farming villages of Le Canon and L’Herbe. The firm opens access to off-market properties and charges fees 100% on success.
Cap Ferret at a glance
On the ground
In 2025, 257 sales were recorded on the Cap Ferret: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
After +9% since 2021, the past year pauses (-19%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
Sales range from €4,000/m² to €12,700/m²: address and condition make the price.
Cap Ferret is a by-agreement market: on the peninsula, most fine sales happen without a listing, in a narrow circle of families, concierges and professionals. The point and the ocean front are of absolute scarcity; the oyster-farming villages are handed down hut by hut.
Value depends on simple and rare things: the distance to the water (basin or ocean), the plot size, the presence of pines, the soul of the village. The peninsula’s buildings, wood houses and stilts, demand a dedicated technical audit before any commitment.
Seasonality is extreme: everything plays from October to April, away from the summer crowd, and the best houses come out through the network exactly when nobody is searching. It is a market where permanent monitoring beats every portal on earth.
| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €7,400/m² | 302 |
| 2022 | €10,600/m² | 266 |
| 2023 | €10,100/m² | 162 |
| 2024 | €10,000/m² | 135 |
| 2025 | €8,100/m² | 223 |
Median for houses, year by year. A year without enough sales at the threshold is not published: the curve skips the year rather than inventing a point.
| Date | Type | Street | Area | Price | Price per sqm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Avenue Bremontier | 100 m² | €763,000 | €7,600/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Avenue De Piclaouey | 43 m² | €480,000 | €11,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Rue La Praya | 90 m² | €650,000 | €7,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Avenue Sud Du Phare Cap Ferret | 75 m² | €1,350,000 | €18,000/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Boulevard Des Mimosas Canon | 170 m² | €1,169,000 | €6,900/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Avenue Des 44 Hectares | 150 m² | €3,550,000 | €23,700/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Allée Des Cedres L Herbe | 60 m² | €894,000 | €14,900/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Allée Des Siffleurs Cap Ferret | 126 m² | €2,350,000 | €18,700/m² |
Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices. Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property.
Micro-markets
Here you do not choose a neighborhood but a village: each has its jetty, its light and its faithful, from basin to ocean.
The very point, between the conche and the hole: villas under the pines steps from the basin beaches and the jetties, the lighthouse and the village by bike. The absolute scarcity of the peninsula: a few hundred properties, almost never listed.
The two most sought-after oyster villages: Le Canon and its jetty, L’Herbe and its chapel, sand streets between oyster huts and wooden houses. A hand-down market, where houses often go before ever being offered.
The mid-peninsula villages: Grand Piquey and its basin front, Petit Piquey and its calm pine forests. Family addresses in strong demand, between beaches and oyster parks, for a more readable budget than the point.
The gateway to the peninsula from Lège: Claouey and its port, Les Jacquets, the villages stretching south. The most accessible market of the peninsula, family and authentic, twenty minutes by bike from the point.
The ocean coast, from Truc Vert to the wild southern beaches: a few villas behind the dunes, direct access to the waves, absolute nature. The most extreme scarcity of the basin: these houses almost never sell, and always by private agreement.
Targeting precisely
The tip of Cap Ferret: a villa or flat steps from the beach, the lighthouse and the shops. The most prized segment and the most liquid on resale.
Le Canon and L’Herbe, the Grand and Petit Piquey: a villa nestled in the pines, near the oyster cabins and the bay beaches. For discreet, authentic use.
Claouey, Les Jacquets and the ocean side: a secluded villa in a wilder, wooded setting, within reach of the ocean beaches. Peace and space, at the price of distance from services.
Three buying profiles to place your own on the Cap Ferret. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Art de vivre
Mornings begin at the Bélisaire jetty, as the oyster farmers’ barges head out to the beds and the Cap Ferret market sets up its stalls. Lunch is oysters at the cabins of Le Canon or L’Herbe, beneath the Moorish chapel of the Villa Algérienne, before crossing the peninsula by bike, between pinewood and sandy lanes, to the waves of Truc Vert. From the top of the lighthouse, the view takes in the Dune du Pilat, the Banc d’Arguin and the stilted cabins of the Île aux Oiseaux.
Each season has its use. Summer belongs to long tables, the mussels of Chez Hortense facing the Mimbeau and ice creams from Frédélian; autumn returns the peninsula to its residents, when low light grazes the oyster beds and the ocean is left to the surfers of Le Grand Crohot. In winter the cabins still serve, mimosa blooms in the gardens, and Bordeaux stays an hour away: people come for a weekend and stay for the quiet season.
Non-resident buyers
Cap Ferret has no railway station: you reach it by road. Bordeaux-Mérignac airport is 1 h to 1 h 15 away. From Paris, allow about 2 h by TGV to Bordeaux, then an hour by road to the peninsula. A car on site is essential: the villages stretch over some fifteen kilometres between the bay and the ocean.
Cap Ferret draws an international clientele seeking privacy rather than a social scene. The peninsula lives mainly in summer and keeps few year-round services, which changes everything about how a house is actually used. Buying here means telling the bay side from the ocean side, the lively village from the hamlet deserted in February: shades that no listing conveys.
The market is highly seasonal and concentrated, with two active windows: spring, April to June, and the September return. The summer high season sharply reduces viewings just as the peninsula is at its fullest. For a remote buyer, the ideal falls in May-June and then September-October, away from the crowds. In winter the peninsula empties and many shops close: the most revealing moment to gauge year-round life.
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Three projects, three markets
The same market does not read the same way depending on what you have come for. Here is what each of the three projects means on the ground.
Cap Ferret is not a yield market: most fine sales are agreed privately, within a narrow circle. Seasonal letting exists, framed by the commune, but value rests on the land, the pines and the side chosen, bay or ocean. The real work is gaining access to the property, not letting it.
This is the entire market: a villa under the pines at the point, an oyster farmer’s house at Le Canon or L’Herbe, an ocean address at Le Truc Vert. To investigate before the offer: the local plan and the scope for extension, drainage, coastal retreat on the ocean side and the upkeep of a timber house closed for winter.
Living year-round on the peninsula means accepting a single road and a season that changes everything. Schools and shops are at Lège and towards Arès, Bordeaux is an hour away out of season, longer in summer. It is a deliberate choice of quiet, which we advise testing through a month of July before deciding.
Off-market
A share of the finest sales on the Cap Ferret completes without ever being listed. The Home Select network of 15,000 professional partners surfaces more than 100 properties every day before publication, and Home Select also approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.
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What Home Select changes
Plus a negotiation led for you: 6% obtained on average on the asking price.
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What negotiation weighs
Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
Price up my search on the Cap FerretThe method
Six precise movements, the same for every search, from the brief to the handover of the keys:
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.
A written brief, and a search launched within the week.
We cover the whole market: published listings, and above all what is never displayed anywhere. Our network of 15,000 professional partners surfaces more than 100 properties for us every day before they go on sale, and we approach owners directly when the setting calls for it.
More than 100 off-market properties surfaced every day by the network.
Every lead is verified, visited or analysed for you: commented video, technical sheet, first figures. You only travel for properties that truly match the brief.
3 viewings on average, instead of 40.
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.
6% obtained on average off the asking price.
Preliminary contract read line by line, surveys, co-ownership rules, charges, easements: every document is checked before you commit. Local points of vigilance, from the coast to the mountains, are in our checklists.
Every document checked before you commit.
We stay by your side through to the signing before the notaire, and after: contractors, formalities, moving. Our work ends when you are settled in, not when the deed is signed.
45 days on average from the brief to the authentic deed.
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Advice from Home Select
In the oyster-farming villages, part of the cabins sit on public maritime land under precarious permits reserved for the trade. Before any offer in Le Canon or L’Herbe, have titles, cadastre and the property’s true boundaries verified.
The local planning code and the Littoral law strictly limit extensions and rebuilding, and the shoreline is retreating at the point. Buy what exists: have what the plot allows confirmed in writing before pricing the land.
Frames, decks and stilts live with salt, damp and a termite zone: demand a recent parasite survey, probe past repairs and undeclared extensions, and have the works priced by a local craftsman before committing.
Our offers
Exclusive search mandate
2.5% of the net purchase price Minimum €10,000 incl. VAT · every budget
The full service: framing, hunting the whole market including off-list, qualified viewings, negotiation, guidance through to the notaire.
Full fee detail
Simple search mandate
1.5% of the net purchase price Reserved for projects of €2m and above
The same full service, entirely dedicated to off-market properties: only confidential opportunities are presented to you.
Full fee detailPublished fees, no surprises: rare on this market, and deliberate.
Client reviews
Nous à 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 !
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..
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.
Google reviews, gathered through fifteen years of searches. 4.8/5 on Google · 1,200+ buyers guided.
Frequently asked questions
Because the local market has its own rules. A private-agreement market: villas change hands without a listing, between insiders. A property finder works for you alone, on the buyer’s side: daily monitoring, access to off-market sales around The tip of Cap Ferret and Le Canon and L’Herbe, 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, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025), the median price on the Cap Ferret stands at €7,500/m² for an apartment and €8,100/m² for a house. These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
In 2025, 5 rooms and more traded at a median of €6,900/m² per sqm, on a median surface of 164 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €1,132,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Notaire fees first: around 7 to 8% of the price on an existing home, 2 to 3% on a new build, paid on the day of signing. Then the finder’s fee, due on success only, and depending on the property the taxe foncière, service charges and a works budget. Home Select prices the whole picture before the offer: the asking price hides nothing. Our notary fees calculator gives the order of magnitude in one line.
Yes, it is the heart of our value there: local monitoring, a network of professionals and direct approach to owners when the setting calls for it.
The point for prestige and scarcity, the oyster-farming villages for character, Claouey and Les Jacquets for accessibility and families. We make the trade-off objective according to your use and your calendar.
In 2025, 257 sales were recorded on the Cap Ferret: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. After +9% since 2021, the past year pauses (-19%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
Our searches complete in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40 and about fifteen hours of your time. In Cap Ferret, the monitoring covers The tip of Cap Ferret and Le Canon and L’Herbe from day one, and the calendar, framed at the brief, is held.
Yes, it is Home Select’s daily routine: 30% of its clients are expatriates or international buyers. Video brief, remote shortlisting and commented pre-visits, viewings grouped into a single trip to Cap Ferret, and the team works in French and in English.
Through the network and direct approach: Home Select’s 15,000 professional partners surface more than 100 properties every day before they go on sale, and Home Select also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In Cap Ferret, the monitoring covers The tip of Cap Ferret and Le Canon and L’Herbe first: that is often where the unfindable property is.
Yes. Lège-bourg and Claouey concentrate schools, shops and services open all year, and the oyster cabins serve even in the depths of winter. The villages of the point grow calm off-season, which their residents regard as the true season. Bordeaux, an hour away, makes it possible to pair an urban week with weekends on the basin.
Villas under the pines of La Pointe, between basin and ocean; the wooden houses of the oyster-farming villages, Le Canon, L’Herbe, Les Piquey, the most sought-after; family properties on the basin front; and the absolute rarity of the ocean side, from Le Truc Vert to the wild beaches. Each type has its ground rules: cabin land, building rights, wood and pilings are audited before the offer.
The land of the cabins and the wooden build: building rights measured, pilings and extensions probed, for the peninsula lives under strict rules and a salty environment that wears everything out. Villas change hands without a listing, between insiders: without the local network’s watching, you only see what everyone sees. Seasonality is extreme: the buying calendar is prepared months before summer.
Families first: Bordeaux dynasties settled for generations, houses handed down rather than sold. To them add Parisians from business and the media, often tenants of the peninsula before becoming owners. It is an insiders’ market, where the local recommendation opens the doors the listing never knows.
It is one of the Atlantic coast’s best-paying seasons, July-August first, on a market where demand always exceeds supply. Year-round letting stays rare: the peninsula lives to the rhythm of the seasons. Land rules and estate regulations frame the use: those lines are read before the offer, they make the return.
A direct Paris-Lège-Cap-Ferret train runs in summer, otherwise Bordeaux then an hour’s road: the peninsula is viewed in a day, la Pointe by bike or car. We group viewings by village, L’Herbe, Le Canon, Les Piquey, so the day tells the place. Villas selling privately, the list is built before the trip.
Peninsula buildings live outdoors: wood, pilings and roofs take salt, wind and sun, and upkeep counts in short years. Oyster-village cabins hide particular land statuses, audited like the building. Everything is costed before the offer: at Le Ferret, upkeep belongs to the entry price.
To hunt on the Cap Ferret, 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 (130+ reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select 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. Home Select is paid on success only: nothing is due until you have bought.
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