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Cannes, Côte d’Azur

Côte d’Azur · Alpes-Maritimes

Property finder in Cannes

Cannes concentrates the most liquid market of the Côte d’Azur: apartments of the Croisette and La Banane, villas on the California and Super Cannes hills, pied-à-terre in Le Suquet. A globalised, seasonal market, where sorting true quality out of abundant supply demands a permanent presence.

A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.

Home Select since 2011 · 1,200+ buyers guided · 4.8/5 on Google (130+ reviews) · Paid 100% on success

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The essentials

Home Select is a property finder in Cannes, founded in 2011, searching for apartments and villas exclusively on behalf of the buyer, from the Croisette to the hills of La Californie and Super Cannes. Its permanent market watch opens access to off-market properties, with fees 100% on success, payable only once the purchase completes.

Cannes at a glance

~74,000
residents, a year-round town
1946
the Festival, every May
~5 hrs
from Paris by TGV, 30 min from Nice airport
2
Lérins islands facing the bay
Le Suquet
the Chevalier hill, where it all began

01The market

Where does the property market in Cannes stand in 2026?

In 2025, 2,555 sales were recorded in Cannes: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.

After +21% since 2021, the past year pauses (0%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.

Sales range from €3,300/m² to €11,300/m²: address and condition make the price.

Cannes is the most liquid market of the Côte d’Azur: abundant supply, global demand, transactions at every price. The paradox is the same as elsewhere, only sharper: the wider the supply, the more true quality drowns in it. Sorting makes more difference here than anywhere else on the coast.

The town works in belts: the Croisette and La Banane for prestige apartments, California and Super Cannes for view villas, La Croix des Gardes for greenery, Le Cannet and Mougins for the back country. Each belt has its rules; moving from one to the other without method costs dear.

The calendar dictates everything: the Festival in May, the summer, the congresses. The best acquisitions are negotiated off-season, when sellers recover a sense of reality. Home Select’s continuous monitoring and local presence create the window its clients wait for.

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The median price over time

€4,700/m² €5,200/m² €5,600/m² €5,800/m² €5,700/m² 20212022202320242025
Curve of the median price per square metre, year by year
Year Median Sales counted
2021 €4,700/m² 2,913
2022 €5,200/m² 3,217
2023 €5,600/m² 2,692
2024 €5,800/m² 2,288
2025 €5,700/m² 2,449

Median for apartments, year by year. A year without enough sales at the threshold is not published: the curve skips the year rather than inventing a point.

Prices by sector

  1. 01 Antibes et Juan-les-Pins €5,200/m² 2025 median, apartments
  2. 02 Mandelieu-la-Napoule et Théoule-sur-Mer €4,900/m² 2025 median, apartments
  3. 03 Mouans-Sartoux et Valbonne €4,900/m² 2025 median, houses
  4. 04 Vallauris et Golfe-Juan €4,200/m² 2025 median, apartments
  5. 05 Mougins et Le Cannet €4,100/m² 2025 median, apartments
  6. 06 Grasse et Pégomas €3,100/m² 2025 median, apartments

Price per sqm by room count

Type Median €/m² Median surface Median home price
1 room €5,800/m² 28 m² €162,000
2 rooms €5,700/m² 46 m² €262,000
3 rooms €5,700/m² 70 m² €399,000
4 rooms €5,200/m² 90 m² €468,000
5 rooms and more €6,900/m² 148 m² €1,021,000

Median home price = median €/m² x median surface of the bracket (2025): an order of magnitude, not a valuation.

The latest sales in Cannes

Date Type Street Area Price Price per sqm
Dec 2025 Apartment Avenue Saint Louis 81 m² €910,000 €11,200/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Avenue Amiral Wester Wemyss 28 m² €180,000 €6,400/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Boulevard du Midi 33 m² €267,000 €8,100/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Rue Saint Antoine 35 m² €315,000 €9,000/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Boulevard de la République 22 m² €100,000 €4,500/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Rue d’Antibes 76 m² €580,000 €7,600/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Boulevard d’Oxford 45 m² €247,000 €5,500/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Boulevard Leader 73 m² €402,000 €5,500/m²

Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices.

The city and its department: Cannes trades 16% above its department median (€4,900/m²), same vintage and same method.

Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property. Updated: October 2026. The full survey, as open data

These prices are the registry’s. What your budget really buys in Cannes, address by address and condition included, is the first thing Home Select tells you at the first conversation.

Describe your project in Cannes

A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.

A private beach, its sunbeds and the Belle Époque façade

02The neighbourhoods

Where to buy in Cannes, neighbourhood by neighbourhood?

In Cannes, every hill and every street behind the Croisette is a town of its own; one chooses a rhythm before an address.

  • 01 La Croisette and La Banane seafront apartments, addresses of prestige and pleasure

    Cannes’ world seafront: palaces and prestige residences along the Croisette, and behind, La Banane, the sought-after triangle between rue d’Antibes and rue Meynadier. Noble floors, south-facing terraces, the most liquid values of the coast.

  • 02 La Californie and Super Cannes villas with bay views, safe values of the hills

    The hills above the town: historic California and its 1930s villas, Super Cannes and its contemporary properties with plunging bay views. The deepest villa market of the area, with a significant share of discreet sales.

  • 03 Le Suquet and the centre old charm and pied-à-terre

    The Chevalier hill, the oldest quarter of Cannes: cobbled lanes, character houses, views over the port and the bay from the heights. A pied-à-terre market demanding on noise and access, but irreplaceable for the Cannes soul.

  • 04 La Croix des Gardes the western slope, properties amid greenery

    The wooded hill between Cannes and Mandelieu, partly a departmental nature park: villas amid greenery, views over the Lérins islands, calm ten minutes from the centre. A family and confidential market, where fine addresses trade by private agreement.

  • 05 Mougins and Le Cannet the immediate residential back country

    The immediate back country: Le Cannet and its high quarters facing the sea, Mougins and its gallery village, the tree-lined residences nearby. Often half the budget of the Croisette for twice the surface: the trade-off many of Home Select’s clients end up choosing.

Where to buy in Cannes: the districts

Which property for your project?

  1. 01 Seafront home

    La Croisette and the Banane: a flat with a terrace and sea view, in a full-service high-end residence. The most sought-after segment, for prestigious seasonal use.

  2. 02 Villa with a view

    La Californie and Super Cannes: a villa with a pool and panoramic bay view, quiet in the heights. The high-end family second home, often handled off-market.

  3. 03 Town centre

    Le Suquet and the centre, La Croix des Gardes: a more accessible flat, authentic in Le Suquet, practical near the station. For a regularly used base on a measured budget.

Three buying profiles to place your own in Cannes. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.

Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Cannes, or between an apartment and a house? Home Select compares them for you, sale by sale and on video pre-viewings, before having you travel.

Describe your project in Cannes

A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.

The Palais des Festivals and its red carpet
The blue chairs of La Croisette facing the bay of Cannes and the Estérel

03Living and buying

Why live and buy in Cannes?

The Cannes year begins each morning at the Forville market, under the covered hall where fishermen from the quai Saint-Pierre sell their catch beside growers from the back country. Rue Meynadier supplies the bread and cheese; Le Suquet is climbed while its lanes are still cool. In May the Festival takes over the town; the rest of the year, the Croisette returns to being a seaside promenade the Cannois walk end to end, between La Malmaison and the Palm Beach.

The sea sets the seasons: swimming off the plages du Midi from spring, crossings to the Lérins islands in summer, the forest of Sainte-Marguerite on one side, the monks’ vineyards of Saint-Honorat on the other. In winter, mimosa covers La Croix des Gardes and the Esterel glows red at dusk across the bay. Paris stays around 5 hrs away by TGV, Nice airport 30 min: one comes for a board meeting and stays for a February weekend.

Three projects, three markets

Investing in Cannes for the long term

Cannes is the most liquid market on the Côte d’Azur: a fine address is kept and resold there, which makes it a store of value as much as a place to stay. La Croisette and the Banane for the sea-view flat, La Californie and Super Cannes for the villa with garden and pool: supply is abundant, but many properties look alike on paper and share neither the same real view nor the same neighbours. The other local variable, often underestimated, is the level of service charges in the Croisette buildings.

Long-term investment: the Home Select method

A second home in Cannes

La Croisette and the Banane for the sea-view flat, La Californie and Super Cannes for the villa with garden and pool. Supply is abundant, which is a trap: many properties look alike on paper and share neither the same real view nor the same neighbours. Home Select sorts on the ground, at the hour when the light matters.

Second home in Cannes: the guide Second home: the Home Select method

Settling in Cannes year-round

Cannes lives all year, with its schools, its hospital and its station, but its rhythm changes radically in season. Families often settle for Le Cannet or Mougins: more garden, better space for the money, well-regarded schools, and the centre a quarter of an hour away. Nice and its airport are thirty minutes by motorway, longer in summer.

Concierge services

A terrace and its tiled roofs facing the Lérins islands

04From abroad

How to buy in Cannes from abroad?

Reaching Cannes

Cannes benefits from Nice-Côte d’Azur airport nearby, about 25 minutes by road, with direct flights to New York in season, London, Dubai and across Europe, plus a heliport reaching Monaco or Saint-Tropez in minutes. Cannes station takes the TGV: Paris is about 5 h away, with direct links to Geneva, Milan and Brussels. The coastal regional train reaches Nice in 35 minutes and Antibes in 15.

The international community in Cannes

Cannes hosts a long-established international community, with schools, services and shops used to foreign clients. Many non-resident owners hold a second home here, used seasonally. The sticking point is not the welcome, it is the calendar: between the Festival and the conventions, part of the year is unusable for calm viewings. Home Select builds the search around the windows that remain.

When to visit, when to buy?

The Cannes market has two sharply defined peaks, set by the event calendar: spring, from March to May around the Festival, and the September return. The summer high season slows viewings while keeping pressure on fine homes. For a remote buyer, the ideal window falls in May-June and then September-October: mild climate, slightly less tight demand, easier viewing logistics. Avoid the peak of the Festival and the big conventions, when accommodation and travel are saturated.

Buying property in Cannes from abroad

La Croisette, its palm trees and façades, end to end

Property finder in Cannes

Everything above, Home Select reads for you. Everything below, its property finders do for you.

A property finder in Cannes works for the buyer, and the buyer alone: searching, viewing, checking and negotiating on your behalf. The six steps of the search, access to properties that never appear in listings, and Home Select’s two offers are detailed below.

05The service

What your property finder’s service in Cannes includes

A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select in Cannes.

  1. 01

    What your finder does

    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.

  2. 02

    For which project?

    A main home, a second home, a pied-à-terre or a long-term wealth purchase in Cannes, whether you are on site or abroad: the search is run remotely, video viewings included, up to the decisive viewing.

  3. 03

    On which terms?

    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, nothing is due until you have bought.

  4. 04

    How long does it take?

    Home Select completes a search in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on average instead of more than 40, and gives a first answer within one working day.

The six steps of your hunt

  1. 01

    The brief

    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.

  2. 02

    Sourcing, off-market included

    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.

    Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties from its network every day.

  3. 03

    Pre-visits

    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.

    Home Select arranges only 3 viewings on average, instead of 40.

  4. 04

    Negotiation

    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.

    Home Select negotiates 6% off the asking price on average.

  5. 05

    Securing

    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 Home Select’s checklists.

    Every document checked before you commit.

  6. 06

    The keys

    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.

    Home Select takes a search from the brief to the authentic deed in 45 days on average.

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Searching alone or with a property finder in Cannes?

Searching alone or with a property finder in Cannes?
Searching alone With Home Select
Viewings 40+ viewings 3 viewings on average
Search duration 6 months 45 days on average
Your time invested 150 hours 15 hours

Plus a negotiation led for you: Home Select secures 6% off the asking price on average.

What negotiation weighs

On a €800,000 purchase

€48,000
secured on average off the asking price (6% of €800,000)
€20,000
in fees at most, Exclusive offer (2.5% of €800,000), paid on completion
45 days
of search on average, before completion

Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.

Buying in Cannes: three finder’s reflexes

  1. 01 Audit seafront co-ownerships

    On the Croisette as in La Banane, read the co-ownership meeting minutes before falling for the terrace: waterproofing, works on salt-exposed façades, co-ownership rules. A poorly kept prestige residence always ends up being paid for.

  2. 02 Check the rules of the hills

    In La Californie and Super Cannes, part of the villas sit within private domains: covenants, roads and easements bind the buyer. Have the local planning rules checked downhill too: a bay view is only protected by what cannot be built in front of it.

  3. 03 Buy to the town’s calendar

    Visit off-season: an apartment judged in February reveals the noise, the light and the real life of the residence. Have financing ready before autumn; in a market this liquid, the window between summer and the Festival closes fast.

Describe your project in Cannes

A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.

An infinity pool on a rooftop, the bay beyond

06Off-market properties

How do you reach off-market properties in Cannes?

A share of the finest sales in Cannes 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.

These properties are not online: they are shown against a written brief, never a listing. Yours begins with a conversation.

Describe your project in Cannes

Understand Home Select’s off-market access

Sailboats of a regatta on the bay

07Fees

Two offers, paid on success

2.5% of the net purchase price
Exclusive offer The full service, at every budget. Minimum €10,000 incl. VAT.
1.5% of the net purchase price
Confidential offer The same service, dedicated to off-market properties. Reserved for projects of €2m and above.

Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.

Which offer fits your project?

Property finder in Cannes: which offer for your project?

Up to €2m
The Exclusive offer: the full service, whatever the budget.
From €2m
The Exclusive offer, or the Confidential offer: a simple mandate dedicated to off-market properties, with the same full service. The choice is made at the first conversation, once the project is understood.
In both cases
The fees are settled at the notary, on the final deed. Nothing is asked for beforehand: no application fee, no retainer.
A palm-lined promenade along the bay
The island of Saint-Honorat, its monastery and tower

08Client reviews

They entrusted their search to Home Select

  • 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 !

    Mélanie B. Trouvé en 3 mois après 18 mois seuls

  • 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..

    François D. Acheteur basé en province

  • 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.

    Stéphanie et Nicolas P. Recherche depuis l’étranger

Google reviews, gathered through fifteen years of searches. 4.8/5 on Google · 1,200+ buyers guided. Client reviews

The ornate façades and wrought-iron balconies of Cannes
The beach of La Croisette and its parasols, seen from the air

09Your project

Property finder in Cannes: your questions

The questions common to every city (purchase costs, remote search, choosing your finder) are gathered on one page: all the frequently asked questions.

Why use a property finder in Cannes?

Because the local market has its own rules. A two-speed market: sorting the abundant supply of standard properties to isolate true quality. A property finder 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.

What are property prices in Cannes in 2026?

Based on actual recorded sales (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales), the median price in Cannes stands at €5,700/m² for an apartment and €6,000/m² for a house. Across the sectors of the survey, the median ranges from €3,100/m² (Grasse et Pégomas) to €5,200/m² (Antibes et Juan-les-Pins). These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.

How much does a 2 rooms apartment cost in Cannes?

In 2025, 2 rooms traded at a median of €5,700/m², on a median surface of 46 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €262,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.

Can a purchase in Cannes be run remotely?

Yes. Brief by video call, remote monitoring and shortlisting, viewings grouped into one visit, and Home Select’s multilingual team guides international buyers end to end.

Do you also cover Mougins, Valbonne and the Cannes back country?

Yes, case by case: Mougins, Valbonne, Biot and the back country are part of the perimeter when the project calls for it. Antibes and the cap have their own page.

Is the property market in Cannes active?

In 2025, 2,555 sales were recorded in Cannes: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. After +21% since 2021, the past year pauses (0%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.

How long does it take to buy in Cannes with a property finder?

Home Select completes its searches in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40 and about fifteen hours of your time. In Cannes, the exact calendar depends on how rare the target property is: it is framed at the brief, then held.

How do you reach off-market properties in Cannes?

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 Cannes, the monitoring starts with two sectors: La Croisette and La Banane, then La Californie and Super Cannes. That is often where the unfindable property is.

Which Cannes neighbourhood for a second home?

It depends on use. To do everything on foot, La Banane and its streets between rue d’Antibes and the Forville market remain the obvious choice: shops, beaches and the station within the same few blocks. To host family and friends in summer, the villas of La Croix des Gardes or La Californie offer garden, pool and quiet, minutes from the Croisette.

La Croisette or the hills: how to choose in Cannes?

The market is sorted rather than browsed. La Croisette and La Banane carry the seafront apartments, addresses of pleasure and prestige; la Californie and Super Cannes, the bay-view villas, safe values of the hills; Le Suquet and the centre keep the old charm of the pied-à-terre. Mougins and Le Cannet complete the palette on the house and back-country side.

What are the rules on the Cannes hills?

The hills have their own: framed buildability and facades, seafront co-ownerships to be read line by line (charges, voted works), view easements to check. Seasonality counts as much: negotiating windows are prepared off-season, away from the Festival and the summer. Buying to the rhythm of the Cannes calendar is part of the method.

Who buys in Cannes today?

Parisians and Lyonnais wanting a Banane apartment usable all year, families settled year-round on the Croix des Gardes or in Le Cannet, international buyers drawn by the airport ten minutes away and the light of the bay. A large share of sales stays discreet, on the hills as in the noble floors of La Croisette.

How do you view Cannes from Paris or abroad?

Five hours of direct TGV or Nice airport thirty minutes away: Cannes is viewed in a day, two when the list runs long. Home Select keeps it short: video filters, the ground decides. The season changes everything, congresses included: the firm picks the windows when sellers are receptive and prices not yet seasonal.

What works on a Cannes property?

The seafront hides charges behind the view: voted works, refacing, rising damp, all in the minutes. The hills add their fence and facade rules. The old fabric of Le Suquet asks for the usual care of exposed stone. Compare two addresses with the cost of upgrading included, backed by contractors’ quotes.

What are your fees in Cannes?

Home Select, a property finder in Cannes, 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.

What happens next

  1. A property finder reads your request and answers within one working day.
  2. A first confidential conversation: how you will use the property, the real budget, the non-negotiable criteria, the timing.
  3. A written brief, and a search started within the week. Nothing is due until you have bought.

Your project in Cannes

A first confidential conversation, with no commitment. A property finder answers within one working day.

4.8/5
On Google (130+ reviews)
1,200+
Buyers guided
100%
On success, nothing upfront

It takes 1 minute.

Or call Home Select directly on 01 78 76 78 10

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Côte d’Azur

Around Cannes

One maison, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Cannes. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.

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Your search covers Cannes and Antibes? One mandate, one brief, and both markets compared sale by sale.

Describe your project across both towns

Not yet chosen your town on the Côte d’Azur? The brief starts from the area and narrows down with you, viewing after viewing.

Describe your project across the whole area

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The bay, La Californie and its villas, seen in panorama

Your project in Cannes

Tell Home Select what you are looking for

A first confidential conversation, with no commitment: how the property will be used, the real budget, the non-negotiable criteria, the timing. The search starts there.

Describe your project in Cannes

Or call Home Select on 01 78 76 78 10

A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.