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Twenty kilometres from Nice, back from the coast, Vence keeps a whole medieval town: ramparts from 1231, a Romanesque cathedral and its Chagall mosaic, the place du Frêne where tradition plants the tree in 1538. Matisse lived here and designed the chapelle du Rosaire, consecrated in 1951; Dufy, Dubuffet and Arman worked here, and the town remains a city of artists that lives all year round, market and café terraces included. Around it, the baous bar the horizon, Le Malvan carries on the Provençal houses, the col de Vence opens onto the pre-Alps. Value rests on stone, on olive-planted grounds and on calm, twenty minutes from the sea.
A buyer’s agent works for the buyer, and for the buyer alone. Here is what Home Select changes, concretely, for your purchase in Vence.
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 Vence 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 Vence.
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 Vence, 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 Vence 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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Outside the old town, most houses rely on private drainage, inspected by the SPANC: tank, spreading, a system to renew or up to standard. Ask for the latest report and have an upgrade costed before the offer. On the high ground of the col, some properties also run on a private water supply: wells and boreholes are checked on the title as at the meter.
Beneath the baou des Blancs and the baou des Noirs, villas live in terraces: retaining walls, stairways, rainwater, emergency access. A moving retaining wall costs more than a kitchen; the state of the walls, the drainage and the access are surveyed before the offer, never after signing.
Inside the medieval town, the village house is read in the registers: party walls, rights of way, narrow stairwells, works to be declared by the ramparts. Damp in old walls and the ventilation of rooms on different levels are checked with a professional. Charm is paid once; constraints are read beforehand.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Vence, 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 Vence 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 Vence.
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, 393 sales were recorded in Vence: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for apartments is up +8% since June 2022, +7% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Sales range from €2,900/m² to €5,700/m²: address and condition make the price.
Vence sells the house, and stone first. At the heart of the medieval town, village houses sell rarely, stairways and party walls included; around, bastides and villas from the 1930s to today spread between Le Malvan, the slopes of the baous and the high ground of the col, on plots that range from a walled garden to an olive grove. Apartments exist, from the village to the residences of the southern plain, but demand comes for the house: families settling in year-round, Parisian and European buyers drawn by a city of art twenty minutes from the sea.
Price here is read on the land as much as on the house: a view of the baous or of the distant sea, south exposure, old olive trees, slope and retaining walls, private drainage, car access to the high properties. The listing omits the winter of the back country, keener than on the shore and counted in heating; it omits too the rights of way crossing the large plots and the state of roofs under the winds of the col. In the village, last, the stone hides rooms on different levels, cellars and works to be declared.
Vence is hunted early: the fine houses often sell without a listing, carried by notaires and local networks, and the season starts in spring to be played out at the September return. Home Select runs the search remotely, from its management and with its partner network: every house is qualified on documents, pre-viewed on video with the seller’s agent, set against actual sales in the area. The buyer travels only for the decisive viewings, grouped into a single trip, and the offer is built on verified documents.
| 12 months to end of June | Median | Sales counted (apartments) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | €3,900/m² | 333 |
| 2023 | €4,000/m² | 286 |
| 2024 | €4,000/m² | 226 |
| 2025 | €4,000/m² | 275 |
| 2026 | €4,200/m² | 272 |
Median for apartments 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: Vence trades 14% below 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 medieval town to the high land of the col, Vence strings together stone, baous and olive trees: five areas, five ways of living.
Ramparts from 1231, the cathedral of the Nativity and its Chagall mosaic, the place du Frêne and its tree several centuries old, lanes climbing towards the baous: the town lives on foot, market and place Clémenceau included. Village houses, rare, sell with their stairway levels and their works to declare. The chapelle du Rosaire, designed by Matisse, marks the entrance to the town.
To the east, the former commune attached to Vence in 1792, today straddling Vence and Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Provençal houses, bastides and planted grounds, minutes from the village as from the ramparts of Saint-Paul. A calm, sought-after area, where properties often trade privately and where the heights glimpse the sea.
The limestone bars of the baou des Blancs and the baou des Noirs close the horizon north-west of the town; beneath the cliffs, perched villas, steep lanes and viewpoints running from the pre-Alps to the sea on clear days. Access, slope and retaining walls are audited before the offer: the view is not negotiated without accounts.
To the north, the road climbs to the col de Vence and the high land: bastides and villas on large plots, olive groves and fields, a mid-country climate where winter is felt. Large properties sell rarely there, and often without a listing. Private drainage, access and upkeep of the land are checked on documents.
To the south, towards La Colle-sur-Loup, the country softens: recent villas and single-storey houses, easier grounds, the Saint-Lambert chapel in the countryside, and the road that drops quickly to Cagnes, the motorway and the sea. The quarter families choose for schools and beaches, twenty minutes from the sand.
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Vence at a glance
Village life centres on the place Clémenceau and the market, in the streets of the ramparts and on the place du Frêne, where the tree tradition says was planted in 1538 shades the terraces. The cathedral keeps in its baptistery the mosaic of Moses saved from the waters, Chagall’s gift in 1979; the chapelle du Rosaire, consecrated in 1951, opens its stained glass designed by Matisse minutes from the gate. The château de Villeneuve, seat of the Fondation Émile-Hugues, lines up its exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
Around, the country is walked: paths beneath the baou des Blancs, the road of the col de Vence towards Coursegoules, the valley of the Loup; Saint-Paul-de-Vence and the Fondation Maeght minutes away, Tourrettes-sur-Loup and its violets across the gorges. Vence has no station: buses run down to Cagnes-sur-Mer and Nice, and Nice Côte d’Azur airport is half an hour by road.
In Vence, value keeps to stone and land: the bastide under the olive trees and the medieval-city house rarely change hands, and fine properties often sell without a listing. Liquidity plays on exposure, drainage and slope, which set the use value as much as floor area.
The medieval city for the village house, ramparts, cathedral and place du Frêne on foot; the Malvan for the bastide and its olive trees, straddling Saint-Paul-de-Vence. The baous and the col de Vence add perched villas and high ground.
Vence is a real year-round town, market, schools, shops and the terraces of place Clémenceau, twenty minutes from the sea. There is no station: buses run down to Cagnes-sur-Mer and Nice, families keep the car and the airport remains half an hour away.
Vence has no station: buses run down to Cagnes-sur-Mer and Nice, and Nice-Côte d’Azur airport is half an hour by road through the La Colle plain. The road links the town to the coast, Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the way, and the hills climb towards the col de Vence and the prealps.
The international community in Vence. An artists’ town since Matisse, Dufy, Dubuffet and Arman, Vence hosts an international community drawn by the light and the galleries, joined by families wanting a real town twenty minutes from the sea. The market, the schools and the terraces of place Clémenceau live all year, and Matisse’s chapelle du Rosaire stands at the town’s entrance.
When to visit, when to buy? The fine houses often sell without a listing, carried by notaries and local networks: the market starts in spring and plays out at the September return. Winter, keener than on the coast, shows the hinterland’s real climate and serves to set the brief before the spring viewings.
Because the local market has its own rules. Outside the village, private drainage prevails: SPANC inspection, tank and spreading are read before the offer. 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 Vence stands at €4,200/m² for an apartment and €5,400/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in the survey: Saint-Paul-de-Vence, €6,800/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, 2 rooms traded at a median of €4,300/m², on a median surface of 47 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 €202,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Two neighbouring villages, two markets. Saint-Paul-de-Vence sells the ramparts and the showcase, a smaller, more fashionable village, where the house is shared between galleries and visitors; Vence sells a real year-round town: market, schools, shops, the Matisse chapel, five minutes from its neighbour. Use decides: the postcard on one side, local life on the other. Home Select compares both against actual sales, house by house.
In the village, largely yes: shops, market, schools and medical care stand within walking distance inside the ramparts and around the place Clémenceau. For the rest, Vence has no station; buses run down to Cagnes-sur-Mer and Nice, and the airport is half an hour by road. Families therefore keep a car, above all from the high quarters of the baous or the col, where the lanes lengthen.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 393 sales were recorded in Vence: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments is up +8% since June 2022, +7% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Vence 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 Vence, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the old town, then Le Malvan. That is often where the unfindable property is.
Two different pleasures. The village house puts the medieval town at the door: market, shops and cafés on foot, life inside the ramparts, and works to be declared on the stone. The bastide of Le Malvan or the hills brings the land, the olive trees, the calm, and the car for everything. For short stays, the village; for family summers, the bastide. Home Select compares both against actual sales before any offer.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent, runs the search remotely from its management, with its network of 15,000 partners. The brief is set by video call, every house is qualified on documents, then in a video pre-viewing run with the seller’s agent, and the price is tested against comparable sales before the negotiation. You come only for the decisive viewings, grouped into a single trip; Home Select then secures the purchase and coordinates the notaire.
Two villages of the Nice back country, two scales. Vence is the town: cathedral, Matisse chapel, schools and services all year, a market that holds all week. Tourrettes-sur-Loup, the violet city on its spur, is smaller and more confidential: stone houses and views over the gorges du Loup. Use decides: town life on one side, the perched village on the other. Both are hunted against actual sales.
A mid-country winter, keener than on the shore: cold nights, morning frost on the high ground of the col, roads bending towards the pre-Alps. In return, the sun stays, and the light of Vence, praised by painters, carries through the winter. Heating is counted in the buying budget: an uninsulated high bastide reads as works to come. Winter viewings show the house as it will live.
Everything depends on zoning and slope. The local planning rules are read at the town hall before any offer: buildable zone, surroundings of the baous, possible footprints, private drainage to plan. On the slopes, the siting of a house is constrained by retaining walls and the future of rainwater. Home Select has the planning document and the titles read before any proposal, new build or simple extension.
The fine houses often sell without a listing: the season starts in spring and is played out at the September return, when families set their school year. Summer slows the viewings, winter shows the country as it lives, fires lit. The right method: set the brief in winter, run the video pre-viewings in spring, then come for the decisive viewings grouped into a single trip.
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 Vence, 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 Vence, 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 Vence. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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