Atlantic Coast - Cap Ferret - Two villas under the pines
Atlantic Coast · Gironde
Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you on the Cap Ferret. You only visit the properties shortlisted, and nothing is due before the deed is signed.
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Home Select has worked as a buyer’s agent 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. Home Select opens access to off-market properties and charges fees 100% on success.
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 Home Select’s job.
A buyer’s agent works for the buyer, and for the buyer alone. Here is what Home Select changes, concretely, for your purchase on the Cap Ferret.
A Home Select finder writes your brief, launches the search within the week and stays with you until the deed is signed. Home Select answers every enquiry within 24 working hours.
Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties a day from its 15,000 partners, agents, notaries and managing agents, before they go on sale. The finest addresses on the Cap Ferret often change hands this way.
Home Select pre-visits every property on commented video and shows only 3 properties on average, instead of 40 when searching alone, grouped into a single trip if you come from afar.
Home Select negotiates 6% on average off the asking price, with the area’s actual sales in hand, and checks every document before you commit. Also paid 10% of the negotiated reduction, Home Select has every reason to bring the price down: you keep 90% of every euro saved. Fees are due on success: nothing before signing.
Atlantic Coast - Cap Ferret - The bay and the Banc d’Arguin from the air
A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select on the Cap Ferret.
They search on your behalf and for you alone, from the written brief to the checking of every document up to the final deed: the six steps are detailed below. Home Select works for the buyer, never for the seller.
A main home, a second home, a pied-à-terre or a long-term wealth purchase on the Cap Ferret, whether you are on site or abroad: the search is run remotely, video viewings included, up to the decisive viewing.
Home Select runs two offers, with the same full service: the Exclusive offer, an exclusive mandate, 2.5% of the net purchase price, minimum €10,000 incl. VAT, at every budget; the Confidential offer, a simple mandate reserved for projects of €2m and above, 1.5% of the net purchase price, dedicated to off-market properties. In both cases, 10% of the negotiated reduction is added to the fees, and nothing is due until you have bought.
The calendar depends on the market on the Cap Ferret and on how rare the target property is: Home Select sets it at the first conversation, then holds it, and answers within one working day.
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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.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you on the Cap Ferret, and what you gain from it.
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.
Every property put to you matches your brief: the search hits the mark from the first week.
Home Select covers the whole market: published listings, and above all what is never displayed anywhere. Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.
You see properties before the market does, and sometimes properties that will never be published.
Every lead is verified and analysed for you, on file then on a video viewing: technical sheet, first figures. You only travel for properties that truly match the brief.
Fewer journeys: your decisive viewings grouped into a single trip, on the shortlisted properties only.
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.
You buy at the right price, every offer defended with the area’s actual sales in hand.
Preliminary contract read line by line, surveys, co-ownership rules, charges, easements: every document is checked before you commit. The points of vigilance specific to each local market are in Home Select’s checklists.
You commit with full knowledge of the facts, with no bad surprise after signing.
Home Select stays by your side through to the signing before the notaire, and after: contractors, formalities, moving. Its work ends when you are settled in, not when the deed is signed.
A timetable framed at the first conversation, then kept: at every stage you know where your purchase stands.
A share of the finest sales on the Cap Ferret completes without ever being listed. Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before publication, and also approaches owners directly when the setting calls for it.
Atlantic Coast - Cap Ferret - Cap Ferret and the Dune du Pilat
Atlantic Coast - Cap Ferret - An oyster-farming village
Two offers, the same full service, paid on success only: the Exclusive offer, 2.5% of the net purchase price (minimum €10,000 incl. VAT), at every budget, and the Confidential offer, 1.5%, for projects of €2m and above, plus 10% of the negotiated reduction in both cases. Nothing is due until you have bought on the Cap Ferret.
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.
The Confidential offerClient reviews
Thank you Catherine and Home Select for what we call the Extra Mile in the United States: explaining the French system, helping us organise the works... It was great.
A search run from abroad
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. Found in 3 months after 18 alone
Nous a 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 ! A buyer based elsewhere in France
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.. I turned to HOME SELECT because I had tried to find my apartment myself by going round the agencies, which proved impossible.
After eight months alone, one week
Nous avons fait appel à Catherine après plus de 8 mois de recherche infructueuse seuls, et ça a été la meilleure décision que nous aurions pu prendre. En à peine une semaine, elle nous a trouvé l’appartement idéal, et notre offre a été acceptée malgré plusieurs dossiers en concurrence. Catherine a été d’un professionnalisme remarquable, toujours disponible, à l’écoute, réactive et rassurante tout au long du processus d’achat. Nous la recommandons chaleureusement. Care that lasts after the signing
Super expérience avec Anne ! appartement remplissant les critères trouvé rapidement et , surtout, accompagnement et vrai suivi même après la signature de l’acte definitif Nous recommandons vivement The family house, at last
Après de longs mois de recherches, nous avons trouvé LA maison que nous cherchions pour notre famille grâce à Véronique. Sa disponibilité, sa compréhension de nos critères et son travail avec l’agent immobilier en charge de la vente nous ont permis d’aller jusqu’au bout du projet. Nous sommes ravis ! Thanks to Véronique and her knowledge of the area, not only were we able to view properties first, but we bought with complete peace of mind. We were supported at every step.
Reviews are quoted in the language their authors wrote them in.
Atlantic Coast - Cap Ferret - An oyster-farming harbour
Page updated on 20 October 2026, reviewed by Jean Mascla, founder of Home Select
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 279 sales were recorded on the Cap Ferret: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for houses has moved -17% since June 2022 and -10% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.
Sales range from €3,800/m² to €12,200/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.
| 12 months to end of June | Median | Sales counted (houses) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | €11,200/m² | 283 |
| 2023 | €12,300/m² | 209 |
| 2024 | €13,300/m² | 148 |
| 2025 | €10,400/m² | 158 |
| 2026 | €9,300/m² | 245 |
Median for houses over 12 months to end of June, year by year. A period without enough sales at the threshold is not published: the curve skips it rather than inventing a point.
The city and its department: Cap Ferret trades 139% above its department median (€3,600/m²), same vintage and same method.
Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property. Updated: October 2026.
Atlantic Coast - Cap Ferret - The point facing the Dune du Pilat
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.
The market, the neighbourhoods, the addresses
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Cap Ferret at a glance
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.
Cap Ferret is a market of a narrow circle: most fine sales are agreed privately. Value rests on the land, the pines and the side chosen, bay or ocean, and a house on the peninsula is kept for a long time, often to be passed on. The real work is gaining access to the property, then investigating the local plan, drainage and coastal retreat on the ocean side.
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 Home Select advises testing through a month of July before deciding.
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.
The international community on the Cap Ferret. 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.
When to visit, when to buy? 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.
Atlantic Coast - Cap Ferret - La Torchère beach
Atlantic Coast - Cap Ferret - An oyster facing the bay
Because the local market has its own rules. A private-agreement market: villas change hands without a listing, between insiders. A buyer’s agent works for you alone, on the buyer’s side: daily monitoring, access to off-market sales, 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, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026), the median price on the Cap Ferret stands at €8,600/m² for an apartment and €9,300/m² for a house. Across the sectors of the survey, the median ranges from €3,800/m² (Lanton, Audenge et Le Teich) to €7,200/m² (Arcachon). These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 5 rooms and more traded at a median of €9,200/m², on a median surface of 136 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €1,251,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Yes, it is the heart of Home Select’s 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. Home Select makes the trade-off objective according to your use and your calendar.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 279 sales were recorded on the Cap Ferret: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for houses has moved -17% since June 2022 and -10% over one year: a market correcting, address by address.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Cap Ferret and on your availability: Home Select frames it at the brief, then holds it. Properties are first seen on video, and your decisive viewings are grouped into a single trip.
Through the network and direct approach: Home Select receives more than 100 properties every day from its 15,000 professional partners before they go on sale, and also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In Cap Ferret, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the tip of Cap Ferret, then Le Canon and L’Herbe. 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.
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. Home Select groups 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.
Yes, though not as a local branch: outside Île-de-France, Home Select runs every search from its head office, with its network of 15,000 professional partners. Each property is vetted on paper, then toured in a video pre-viewing led with the seller’s agent, and you travel only once, for the decisive viewings. The guide “Buying property in France remotely” spells out how it works.
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 (139 reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent on the Cap Ferret, 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.
The questions common to every city (purchase costs, remote search, choosing your finder) are gathered on one page.
One point of contact, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Cap Ferret. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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