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Biot has kept its village on the spur, its ramparts, its lanes where glassmakers and potters keep shop, and the famous glassworks born of the bubble glass invented here in 1956. The national Fernand Léger museum watches over the chemin du Val de Pome, Sophia Antipolis covers part of the commune with its campuses, and the sea is ten minutes away through Antibes. ~10,500 residents, a village that lives all year, international schools nearby: what is bought here is the villa under the pines, with its garden and pool, between the village and the quiet hills. A narrow supply, much in demand, that often trades before the listings ever appear.
A buyer’s agent works for the buyer, and for the buyer alone. Here is what Home Select changes, concretely, for your purchase in Biot.
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 in Biot 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.
A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select in Biot.
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 in Biot, 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 in Biot 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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Between the pines and the edge of the Brague forest, brush clearance is a legal obligation, generally over fifty metres around buildings in exposed zones: plot, hedges, pinewoods, everything needs yearly upkeep. Ask about the real state of the parcel and have the annual maintenance costed, not only the one-off clearing.
A share of Biot’s villas lives in a gated estate or a managed development: fences, planting, pools, the colour of façades, works subject to the owners’ association, variable annual charges. The rulebook and the accounts are read before the offer; they tell the property’s life as much as the garden itself.
The sea view from the heights depends on the pines and future additions: planning certificate, height rules and easements are checked before the offer. The slope adds its own subjects: retaining walls, water drainage, lorry access for the works. Every point is checked on documents, then on site.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Biot, 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 in Biot 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.
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 in Biot.
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.
Page updated on 9 October 2026, reviewed by Jean Mascla, founder of Home Select
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 112 sales were recorded in Biot: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
After +12% since June 2022, the past year pauses (-3%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
Sales range from €3,000/m² to €6,100/m²: address and condition make the price.
The Biot market holds in three layers. The village houses first, in the lanes of the spur: rare, small, fought over. Then the villas of the residential quarters, from Les Collines to the gated estates born with Sophia Antipolis: pools, gardens planted with pines, security, the address of the technology park executives and the international families schooled at the Centre international de Valbonne. Finally the bastides and plots of the slopes, towards Valbonne and the Brague forest. Demand outruns the listed supply: part of what sells circulates from hand to hand, before any listing.
Under the pines, the listing promises calm: it is checked at the hours when Sophia Antipolis empties its offices, and the sea view is controlled from every room, for the pinewood grows and villas rise a storey. Fire, next, is not an empty word: on the edge of the Brague forest as in the hills, brush clearance is a legal obligation, and the sloping plot adds retaining walls and water drainage. In gated estates, the rulebook and the charges make the property’s life: fences, planting, works subject to the owners’ association. These documents are read before the offer.
The calendar follows the technology park as much as the sea: September and spring carry the decisions, summer is lost between rented villas and full roads, and the mild winter allows viewings at a human pace. Home Select runs the search remotely, from its management and with its network of 15,000 partners: brief set by video call, villa qualified on documents then in a video pre-viewing with the seller’s agent, price set against real sales from the DVF records, and decisive viewings grouped into a single trip, through to the signing.
| 12 months to end of June | Median | Sales counted (houses) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | €5,800/m² | 98 |
| 2023 | €6,200/m² | 85 |
| 2024 | €6,300/m² | 56 |
| 2025 | €6,700/m² | 76 |
| 2026 | €6,500/m² | 69 |
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: Biot trades in line with its department median (€4,900/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.
From the fortified village to the estates of Sophia Antipolis, Biot runs from the glassmaker’s house to the villas under the pines, the sea at the end of the path.
The spur ringed by ramparts: sloping lanes, glassmakers’ and potters’ workshops, galleries, the square and its cafés. Village houses are rare here, sought after, and come with their constraints: narrow access, parking outside, works in old buildings. The heart of what Biot sells most singular.
The path that runs down from the village to the main road: the national Fernand Léger museum, the only one in the world devoted to the painter, the art glassworks where bubble glass is blown, a few discreet villas in the greenery. A sector of creation more than of transactions; the properties that change hands here are rare and often trade privately.
The residential quarters stepping between the village and the slopes: villas from the sixties to today, gardens under the pines, pools. The address of families and Sophia Antipolis executives, ten minutes from the beaches and the motorway exit. It is here that supply compares best: plot surface, real view, condition of the villa.
To the east, the share of the technology park set on the commune: research centres, campuses and, in the gaps, discreet residential estates where executives and expatriate families live. Closeness to work makes the value; the estate charges and the association life that goes with them are read before the offer.
The Brague forest borders the commune: shaded trails leading towards Valbonne, bastides set back, plots larger than elsewhere in the area. This is where the quiet house is hunted, at the woodland edge, with the brush clearance that goes with it. The countryside, minutes from the beaches through Antibes.
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Biot at a glance
The village lives all year: the square and its cafés, the glassmakers’ and potters’ workshops, the Verrerie de Biot and its bubble glass, born here in 1956, the national Fernand Léger museum on the chemin du Val de Pome. Schools, shops and associations cover the week, and Antibes, its old town and its Provençal market are ten minutes away.
Around, the country opens up: the Brague forest and river offer their trails down to the sea, Valbonne keeps its village built in the sixteenth century, Antibes lines up its cape and ramparts, Juan-les-Pins its beaches. Sophia Antipolis works next door, Nice airport is twenty minutes by motorway, and Antibes station opens onto Nice, Italy and, by direct TGV, Paris.
Biot combines two scarcities: the glassblowers’ village, where the lane houses can be counted, and the villas under the pines ten minutes from Antibes’s beaches. Demand exceeds the listed supply and part of the sales circulate before listing: an address to keep, provided the real view is bought, the pine wood growing faster than one thinks.
The Collines for the villa with garden and pool between village and slopes; the fortified village for the rare house in the glassblowers’ and potters’ lanes. Towards the Brague and Valbonne, bastides on the forest edge add space and quiet.
The village lives year round, schools and shops below the ramparts, and Sophia Antipolis occupies part of the commune: executives and international families schooled at the Centre international de Valbonne. Nice airport is twenty minutes away and the regional station puts Nice twenty minutes off: the double life of technology park and sea.
Biot’s regional station, on the main Cannes-Ventimiglia line, puts Nice twenty minutes away and Antibes a few minutes; the beaches are ten minutes off through Antibes. Nice-Côte d’Azur airport is twenty minutes by the A8, and Sophia Antipolis occupies part of the commune, at the gate of the residential estates.
The international community in Biot. Sophia Antipolis settled an international population in Biot, technology executives and expatriate families schooled at the Centre international de Valbonne, joined by glass and ceramics lovers from around the world. The village lives year round, schools and shops included, and English is heard from the glassblowers’ square to the gated estates of the Collines.
When to visit, when to buy? The calendar follows the technology park as much as the sea: the September return and spring carry the decisions, when families change post and school. Summer is lost between let villas and full roads; the mild winter allows viewings at a human pace in a tight supply often traded before the listings.
Because the local market has its own rules. Woodland edge of the Brague forest and wooded hills: mandatory brush clearance, to be costed as yearly upkeep. 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 in Biot stands at €4,900/m² for an apartment and €6,500/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in the survey: Villeneuve-Loubet, €6,000/m² median. 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, 4 rooms traded at a median of €6,700/m², on a median surface of 105 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 €704,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
The village for character: old houses in the lanes, life on foot, in exchange for parking and access constraints. Les Collines and the estates for the family: villa with garden and pool, quiet neighbourhood, schools and the technology park minutes away. The first choice is lived on short stays, the second all year. In both cases supply is narrow and part trades before the listings: your buyer’s agent avoids false comparisons between the two markets.
Fire first: at the forest edge, brush clearance is mandatory, generally over fifty metres around buildings, at the owner’s expense, and its upkeep is costed every year. The plot next: slope, retaining walls, water drainage. The estate last: rulebook, charges, works subject to the owners’ approval. And the view, controlled window by window, for the pinewood grows faster than one thinks. Home Select has these documents checked before any offer.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 112 sales were recorded in Biot: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. After +12% since June 2022, the past year pauses (-3%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Biot 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 Biot, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the fortified village, then Val de Pome and the glassworks. That is often where the unfindable property is.
The village house gives the spur, the lanes, life on foot; it is rare, comes without parking, and is visited with a builder’s eye. The villa of Les Collines or of an estate gives the garden, the pool, the necessary car; it compares surface by surface, view by view. Some buy a setting, others a family organisation. Home Select raises the question of use before that of the address, then qualifies every property in a video pre-viewing.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Biot, runs the search remotely from its management, with its network of 15,000 partners. The brief is set by video call, every villa is qualified on documents then in a video pre-viewing run with the seller’s agent, and the price is tested against comparable DVF sales before the negotiation. You come only for the decisive viewings, grouped into a single trip; Home Select secures the purchase and coordinates the notaire, remotely included.
Two neighbouring villages, two markets. Biot looks at the sea from its heights: villas under the pines, the beaches of Antibes ten minutes away, glassworks and the Léger museum. Valbonne keeps its village built in the sixteenth century and its hamlets around the technology park: the Centre international de Valbonne, the campuses, much sought-after residential estates. Jobs and schooling set the logic; one supply completes the other, and honest comparisons happen in video pre-viewings.
Fire first: mandatory brush clearance around buildings, generally over fifty metres, at the owner’s expense, with a yearly upkeep to cost. Then emergency access, the width of the lanes, retaining walls and rainwater on the slope. Last, insurance, which takes the exposure to risk into account. Home Select has these points audited on documents before any offer.
In the village, almost: shops, schools, cafés, buses towards Antibes and its station. The rest of the commune lives by car: estates, hills, Sophia Antipolis and Valbonne are better reached on four wheels, and families often plan for two vehicles. The bicycle settles fine days towards the sea along the Brague paths.
September and spring, when families move before school or over the holidays; summer complicates viewings, the village being popular with summer visitors. In winter, the pinewood reveals itself: deciduous trees drop, views open, plots read better. The right method: brief in autumn, video pre-viewings all winter, decisive viewings grouped in spring.
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 in Biot, 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 (140 reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Biot, 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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One point of contact, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Biot. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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