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Property finder in Nice

From the promenade des Anglais to the hills of Cimiez and Mont Boron, Nice remains the residential capital of the Riviera: Nice palace buildings, bourgeois blocks, sea-view villas and an international airport putting the city two hours from every European capital. A globalised market, where discretion on transactions is the rule for fine properties.

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, a property finder in Nice founded in 2011, searches for apartments and villas exclusively on the buyer’s behalf, from the promenade des Anglais to the hills of Cimiez and Mont Boron. The firm opens access to off-market properties on the Riviera and charges fees 100% on success, with nothing payable upfront.

Nice at a glance

5th
city of France
340,000+
residents
2nd
airport of France, international gateway
7 km
of promenade des Anglais
1860
County of Nice joined to France
300+
days of sun a year

01The market

Where does the property market in Nice stand in 2026?

In 2025, 7,826 sales were recorded in Nice: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.

The median for apartments is up +14% since 2021, +2% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.

Sales range from €2,900/m² to €7,600/m²: address and condition make the price.

Nice is two markets in one: the seafront, from the palaces of the promenade to the noble floors of the Carré d’Or, and the hills, from Cimiez to Gairaut, where villas and their views follow another logic. Confusing the two is the buyer’s first mistake; arbitrating them correctly, Home Select’s first job.

The clientele is global: European, American and Middle-Eastern buyers judge fast, pay cash when the property is right, and rely on established advice. On fine properties, discretion is the rule: a significant share of the sales that matter closes without a public listing.

Riviera building technique demands a trained eye: old co-ownership blocks with voted charges, coastal servitudes, floors and terraces to be checked stone by stone. View, exposure and the quality of the building create considerable gaps between two neighbouring addresses.

View the fees Property prices in Nice in 2026 Calculate the notary fees Off-market properties

The median price over time

€4,200/m² €4,500/m² €4,700/m² €4,700/m² €4,800/m² 20212022202320242025
Curve of the median price per square metre, year by year
Year Median Sales counted
2021 €4,200/m² 8,511
2022 €4,500/m² 9,283
2023 €4,700/m² 7,466
2024 €4,700/m² 6,549
2025 €4,800/m² 7,535

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 Villefranche-sur-Mer, Beaulieu, Èze €8,500/m² 2025 median, apartments
  2. 02 Cap-d’Ail et La Turbie €6,900/m² 2025 median, apartments
  3. 03 Villeneuve-Loubet et Biot €5,900/m² 2025 median, apartments
  4. 04 Menton et Roquebrune-Cap-Martin €5,300/m² 2025 median, apartments
  5. 05 Saint-Laurent-du-Var et Cagnes-sur-Mer €4,800/m² 2025 median, apartments
  6. 06 Saint-Paul-de-Vence et Vence €4,200/m² 2025 median, apartments
  7. 07 L’arrière-pays (Levens, Aspremont, Colomars) €3,600/m² 2025 median, houses

Price per sqm by room count

Type Median €/m² Median surface Median home price
1 room €5,400/m² 27 m² €146,000
2 rooms €4,800/m² 47 m² €226,000
3 rooms €4,600/m² 67 m² €308,000
4 rooms €4,600/m² 85 m² €391,000
5 rooms and more €4,500/m² 130 m² €585,000

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

The latest sales in Nice

Date Type Street Area Price Price per sqm
Dec 2025 Apartment Avenue Auber 18 m² €126,000 €7,000/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Rue Benoît Bunico 76 m² €350,000 €4,600/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Boulevard de Cessole 29 m² €179,000 €6,200/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Avenue de la Vallière 41 m² €181,000 €4,400/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Avenue Antoine Véran 26 m² €120,000 €4,600/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Rue Combattants en Afrique du Nord 66 m² €310,000 €4,700/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Rue d’Angleterre 153 m² €1,100,000 €7,200/m²
Dec 2025 Apartment Avenue des Palmiers Henry Dunant 45 m² €202,000 €4,500/m²

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

The city and its department: Nice trades 2% below 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 Nice, address by address and condition included, is the first thing Home Select tells you at the first conversation.

Describe your project in Nice

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

A lane with ochre and red façades passing under an arch, in Nice

02The neighbourhoods

Where to buy in Nice, neighbourhood by neighbourhood?

Nice is not chosen on a map: between the sea and the hills, each address carries its own idea of the city.

  • 01 Cimiez Nice palace buildings and large apartments in the former hotels

    The hill of queens and tsars: the great Belle Époque hotels (Excelsior, Regina) converted into upmarket residences, century-old parks, the Chagall and Matisse museums. Large through apartments are rare and contested there.

  • 02 Mont Boron sea-view villas and apartments, between city and cap

    The wooded hill between the port and Villefranche: contemporary or old villas facing the bay, famous properties, absolute calm ten minutes from the centre. A confidential micro-market where the open sea view commands everything.

  • 03 Carré d’Or and promenade des Anglais prestige buildings on the seafront

    The heart of cosmopolitan Nice: prestige buildings of the promenade and the streets of the Carré d’Or, noble floors with terraces, palaces with services. A market of safe values, globalised, where floor, view and the condition of the building decide all.

  • 04 The port and old Nice character, terraces and art de vivre

    The Lympia quarter and the lanes of old Nice: character apartments, rooftop terraces, markets and restaurants on foot. A more affordable market than the seafront, demanding on noise and building condition.

  • 05 Gairaut and the hills quiet properties, views over the Baie des Anges

    The residential heights north of the city: quiet villas and properties, plunging views over the Baie des Anges, Mediterranean greenery. A family and confidential market, where access and exposure are checked with care.

Where to buy in Nice: the districts

Which property for your project?

  1. 01 Pied-à-terre

    Carré d’Or and promenade des Anglais: a renovated Belle Époque flat, walking distance from the sea and the shops. For regular use and short stays year round.

  2. 02 Sea view and quiet

    Mont Boron, Gairaut and the hills: a flat or villa with a panoramic view, quiet, halfway between the centre and nature. The high-end second-home segment.

  3. 03 Settling for good

    Cimiez for bourgeois volumes and gardens, the port and old Nice for urban life. Two settings for year-round use, with schools and services close by.

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

Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Nice, 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 Nice

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

A stone vault and its clock face in a lane of Vieux-Nice
The cours Saleya market and its ochre façades, in Nice

03Living and buying

Why live and buy in Nice?

The Niçois day begins early at the cours Saleya, among flower stalls and growers down from the hills. Lunch is socca at Chez Pipo behind the port, the morning market draws you up to La Libération, and evening tables wait in old Nice or the Carré d’Or. In between, the city keeps its museums close: Matisse and Chagall on the Cimiez hill, MAMAC beside the coulée verte, the opera house facing the sea.

The sea sets the calendar: winter swims in the Baie des Anges, morning lengths along the promenade, sails off the port Lympia. The paths of Mont Boron lead to the fort and the pines facing Villefranche; the hinterland opens onto the Paillon and Vésubie valleys. In February the carnival crosses the city. And the airport, the first in France after Paris, keeps the European capitals within reach, minutes from the seafront.

Three projects, three markets

Investing in Nice for the long term

Nice is the great city of the Riviera: hospitals, international schools, a university and an airport linking it to every European capital, which makes it today’s pied-à-terre and tomorrow’s home. Value holds there on three criteria: the view, the floor and the lift, in Cimiez, on Mont Boron or in the Carré d’Or. The bourgeois buildings of the centre hide service charges and voted works that no listing mentions: Home Select checks them every time, before the offer.

Long-term investment: the Home Select method

A second home in Nice

A Nice pied-à-terre is chosen on three criteria: the view, the floor and the lift. Cimiez and Mont Boron for quiet and panorama, the Carré d’Or to do everything on foot, the port for life. The bourgeois buildings of the centre hide service charges and voted works that no listing mentions: that is where the true price is decided.

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

Settling in Nice year-round

Nice is a real city: hospitals, international schools, a university, trams and an airport linking it to every European capital. Families look at Cimiez, Gairaut and the hills for space, the centre for life without a car. What you must measure yourself is the daily commute: here, distance in kilometres says nothing about real travel time.

Concierge services

A restaurant table under a plant-covered pergola, in Nice

04From abroad

How to buy in Nice from abroad?

Reaching Nice

Nice is exceptionally well connected: its airport, France’s third busiest, sits ten minutes from the centre and flies direct to more than 100 destinations, including New York in season, London, Dubai, the main European hubs and several Gulf airports. The city has two TGV stations, Nice-Ville near the Promenade des Anglais and Nice-Saint-Augustin; Paris is about 5 h 30 away, with direct links to Geneva, Milan and Brussels. Monaco and Cannes are under 45 minutes away by regional train or the coastal road.

The international community in Nice

Nice has long hosted an international community, with bilingual schools, high-standard healthcare and a cultural life that never stops. The airport makes round trips easy for owners who split their time across countries. What remains is the city’s own difficulty: from one building to the next, the view, the noise and the state of the co-ownership can halve or double what the property is worth to live in. Home Select settles those gaps on the ground before flying you over.

When to visit, when to buy?

The Nice market is active year round, with two peaks: spring, from March to June, when fine homes change hands quickly, and the September-October return after the high season. Summer slows viewings without halting transactions. For a remote buyer, the mid-season is the best window: mild climate, slightly less tight demand, plenty of direct flights. December and January, quieter, sometimes open room to negotiate on homes that have sat for several months.

Buying property in Nice from abroad

The Baie des Anges and the curve of the Promenade des Anglais, panorama

Property finder in Nice

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

A property finder in Nice 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 Nice includes

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

  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 Nice, 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.

Discover the method in detail Every step of buying in France

Searching alone or with a property finder in Nice?

Searching alone or with a property finder in Nice?
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 Nice: three finder’s reflexes

  1. 01 Audit the co-ownership first

    In the palace buildings of the promenade as in Cimiez, read the general-meeting minutes before falling for the apartment: renderings exposed to sea spray, period lifts, roof terraces. A poorly kept building quickly absorbs what the view seems to promise.

  2. 02 Secure the view in planning

    On the hills, a sea view is verified against the local planning rules: buildable plots below, permitted heights, neighbouring vegetation. At Mont Boron as in Gairaut, also test the real access to the land, the slope, and the exposure at the hours you will live in the house.

  3. 03 Be ready before the listing

    The right properties move fast, often without a public listing, against buyers who pay cash. Prepare financing, proof of funds and advisers before the search, not during it: in Nice, the ability to commit within days weighs as much as the price offered.

Describe your project in Nice

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

A yellow façade and its turquoise shutters seen from above, in Nice

06Off-market properties

How do you reach off-market properties in Nice?

A share of the finest sales in Nice 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 Nice

Understand Home Select’s off-market access

The Place Masséna, its red ochre façades, its fountain and its tram

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 Nice: 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.
The blue chairs of the Promenade des Anglais facing the Mediterranean
The marina of Nice and its moored yachts

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

A domed Belle Époque façade on the Nice seafront
The Negresco and its domes on the Promenade des Anglais

09Your project

Property finder in Nice: 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 Nice?

Because the local market has its own rules. An international clientele: sellers and buyers alike come from all over the world, and so do the codes. 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 Nice in 2026?

Based on actual recorded sales (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales), the median price in Nice stands at €4,800/m² for an apartment and €5,700/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in the survey: Villefranche-sur-Mer, Beaulieu, Èze, €8,500/m² median. 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 Nice?

In 2025, 2 rooms traded at a median of €4,800/m², on a median surface of 47 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €226,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.

Do you guide international buyers in Nice?

Yes, Home Select counts 30% expatriates or internationals among its clients. The team works in French and in English, and the search can be run entirely remotely until the final viewings.

Do you cover the coastline around Nice?

Yes: Villefranche-sur-Mer, Beaulieu, Èze and the eastern coast are part of the perimeter. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Cannes and Antibes have their own page.

Is the property market in Nice active?

In 2025, 7,826 sales were recorded in Nice: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments is up +14% since 2021, +2% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.

How long does it take to buy in Nice 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 Nice, 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 Nice?

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 Nice, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Cimiez, then Mont Boron. That is often where the unfindable property is.

Which neighbourhood of Nice for a second home?

For a pied-à-terre served by the airport, the Carré d’Or and the promenade des Anglais remain the practical choice: noble floors, terraces, well-kept buildings, everything on foot. The port and old Nice suit those who want the city alive; Mont Boron, those after silence and the view, at the gates of the centre.

Seafront or hills: what should you aim for in Nice?

Two markets in one. The seafront (Carré d’Or, promenade des Anglais) carries the prestige buildings and the noble floors; Cimiez lines up the large apartments of the former hotels; Mont Boron, Gairaut and the hills offer villas and properties in calm, overlooking the baie des Anges. The rules of value differ from one world to the other: the hunt begins by choosing yours.

What should you watch in Nice’s buildings?

The co-ownership first: the Riviera supply hides old buildings with widely varying charges, voted works included, to be audited before the view. The view next, to be secured in the local plan: what is visible today can be built tomorrow. Without these checks, the finest address can lose within months what made its price.

How is Nice bought from abroad?

It is an international market: sellers and buyers come from all over the world, and so do the codes. A solid file, financing and representative in place, makes the difference on rare properties, and the whole chain, from the first search to signing at the notary’s, runs remotely. Home Select guides international buyers in their own language, from the first call to the keys.

How is a Nice search run from abroad?

The airport is ten minutes from the centre: Nice is the easiest town on the coast to reach from anywhere in the world. Home Select groups viewings over two or three days, video in support, and the offer can be presented remotely, mandate in place. Many of its international clients come only for the signature.

What works on an old Nice apartment?

The palaces and old buildings hide varying charges and voted works to be read in the minutes. The state of the fabric, from roof to exposed facades, changes the value of one and the same floor. Home Select’s co-ownership and building audit comes before the apartment viewing: that order protects the buyer.

What are your fees in Nice?

Home Select, a property finder in Nice, 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 Nice

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

Or choose the time of the first conversation

Côte d’Azur

Around Nice

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

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Whole area: property finder on the Côte d’Azur

Your search covers Nice and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat? 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

Prefer another channel? Call Home Select on 01 78 76 78 10, send a WhatsApp message or choose the time of the first conversation.

Cannot find your city?

Type it in: Home Select hunts wherever your project takes you, and answers within one working day.

The beach in Nice, its parasols and its bathers, the promenade behind

Your project in Nice

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 Nice

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.