Étretat, Normandy
Normandy · Seine-Maritime
Between Le Havre and Fécamp, on the Albâtre coast, Étretat is a borough of fourteen hundred residents at the foot of its cliffs: the Aval cliff and its Aiguille, the Manneporte, the Amont cliff and its Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde chapel, a pebble beach at the bottom of the bay. Maurice Leblanc settled Arsène Lupin here, and the jardins d’Étretat crown the Amont side. Since the post-2020 surge, the market has been very narrow: views over the cliffs almost never come back for sale, and the Anglo-Norman villas trade between insiders.
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The essentials
Home Select is a property finder in Étretat, founded in 2011, searching for villas and houses exclusively on behalf of the buyer, from the pebble borough to the heights of the Albâtre coast. The firm opens access to off-market properties in a resort where views over the cliffs no longer reach the listings. Fees 100% on success: nothing is due before the purchase completes.
Étretat at a glance
01The market
In 2025, 47 sales were recorded in Étretat: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for houses is up +6% since 2021, +19% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
From Saint-Jouin-Bruneval et Angerville-la-Campagne to Fécamp et Yport, the median gap reaches +62 %: the neighbourhood prices the property as much as its floor area.
The post-2020 surge compressed a market that was already narrow: Étretat is a borough of fourteen hundred residents, wedged between two cliffs, and the stock cannot grow. Properties with a real view of the Aiguille, the Manneporte or the open sea, extremely rare, no longer reach the listings: they trade between insiders, through notaries and local networks, often at the end of years of watching. The Paris connection via Bréauté, about two and a half hours, has shortened the distance further for Parisian buyers.
What separates the addresses reads on three lines: the view first, the cliffs squarely framed or a mere line of horizon between two roofs; the aspect next, for the borough faces north and lives by the salt spray; the condition of the fabric last, the Anglo-Norman villas demanding close scrutiny of timber, roofs and energy. The borough and the beach remain the heart of life; the heights offer quiet and gardens, minutes from the pebble bay.
| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €2,500/m² | 31 |
| 2022 | €3,100/m² | 40 |
| 2023 | €3,100/m² | 37 |
| 2024 | €2,300/m² | 29 |
| 2025 | €2,700/m² | 30 |
Median for houses, year by year. A year without enough sales at the threshold is not published: the curve skips the year rather than inventing a point.
| Date | Type | Street | Area | Price | Price per sqm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | House | Avenue Nungesser et Coli | 75 m² | €217,000 | €2,900/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Avenue Nungesser et Coli | 40 m² | €176,000 | €4,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Rue Guy de Maupassant | 64 m² | €100,000 | €1,600/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue Guy de Maupassant | 46 m² | €160,000 | €3,500/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Rue Anicet Bourgeois | 70 m² | €170,000 | €2,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue Alphonse Karr | 138 m² | €238,000 | €1,700/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue Notre Dame | 23 m² | €96,000 | €4,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Rue Guy de Maupassant | 90 m² | €140,000 | €1,600/m² |
Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices.
The city and its department: Étretat trades 29% above its department median (€2,100/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 Étretat, address by address and condition included, is the first thing we tell you at the first conversation.
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02The neighbourhoods
A pebble borough between the Aval cliff and the Amont cliff: the whole address plays out in a handful of streets.
The town of Étretat, between the two cliffs: houses and shops, the pebble beach at the end of the streets, the tables and the intense seasonal life. Properties are rare here and quickly contested; some look at the bay, others at the street, and the difference is checked from every window. This is the address for life on foot, in every season.
On the Aval side, a handful of properties look at the Aiguille and, beyond it, the Manneporte: the most famous view of the Albâtre coast, and the rarest on the market. These addresses almost never surface; when one comes up, it goes through networks, and fast. The vigilance bears on the salt-spray exposure and on the upkeep of the fabric against the wind.
On the Amont side, the quarter rises towards the Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde chapel and the jardins d’Étretat, remarkable gardens carved on the cliff. The houses open wide views over the Channel and the fields; the height keeps the borough’s spray at bay. A sought-after residential address, ten minutes on foot from the beach, with the quiet of the plateau.
Set back from the bay, the heights line up Anglo-Norman villas and country houses in planted gardens: quiet, parking, family life, minutes from the beach. This is the most family-friendly part of the market, where properties come up more often than on the cliff edge. Roofs, timber and energy are checked before the offer.
Houses steps from the pebbles, shops on foot, the life of the bay without interruption: the liveliest address, rare and quickly contested, view or not.
The rare properties looking at the Aiguille and the Manneporte: the most famous view of the Albâtre coast, almost never offered in public sale.
Anglo-Norman villas and planted gardens, minutes from the beach: the family side of the market, the most accessible of all without being ordinary.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Étretat. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Étretat, or between an apartment and a house? A property finder visits for you and compares on the spot, before having you travel.
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03Living and buying
Étretat is lived facing the cliffs: the pebble beach at the bottom of the bay, the paths climbing to the Aiguille and the Manneporte on one side, the Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde chapel and the jardins d’Étretat on the other. The morning belongs to the residents and the swimmers, the afternoon to the day visitors, the evening to the recovered calm. The iodine tables of the borough do the rest, from spring to the late season.
The borough’s other life is literary: Maurice Leblanc lived at the Clos Lupin, and Arsène Lupin still haunts the Manneporte and the Hollow Needle; the gardeners of the jardins d’Étretat carve the Amont cliff into a work of art. Summer brings the crowds, July and August saturate the streets; in winter Étretat becomes a village of fourteen hundred souls again, between Le Havre and Fécamp, two and a half hours from Paris.
Three projects, three markets
In Étretat, investment plays rarity rather than yield: a frozen stock between two cliffs, a demand reinforced since 2020. Holiday letting is the dominant use, carried by the worldwide fame of the cliffs; year-round letting stays marginal in a borough of fourteen hundred residents. The constraints are real: energy in the old fabric, upkeep of timber and roofs against the salt spray, delegated management close to essential.
It is the near-universal use of this market: a house for weekends and holidays, two and a half hours from Paris via Bréauté station. Spring and the late season give the cliffs back to their owners, once the summer crowds have gone. Running the house from afar is delegated to the craftsmen and concierges of the borough, who work all year, and the heights offer the easiest houses to close.
Settling in Étretat means choosing a borough of fourteen hundred residents that lives in every season: shops, tables, community life held from October to April. Le Havre and its services are thirty minutes away, Fécamp close by, Paris remains about two and a half hours via Bréauté for the back-and-forth. Families settle mostly on the heights, Anglo-Norman villas and gardens, minutes from the beach.
04From abroad
Le Havre is thirty minutes by road, Deauville an hour, and Paris is about two and a half hours away via Bréauté station, with its final road connection to the borough. Fécamp closes the frame to the east, on the same Albâtre coast. Within the commune itself, everything is done on foot or within a few minutes by car, from the borough to the residential heights.
The international clientele is discreet but real: the cliffs of Étretat are known well beyond France, carried by images and by the aura of Arsène Lupin. British, Belgian and Northern European buyers have frequented this market for a long time, often through intermediated networks. English is commonly spoken in the season’s shops, and Le Havre, thirty minutes away, provides the services and the connections.
The high season runs from June to September, when the cliffs and the borough saturate; viewings are complicated at the height of summer, and the best windows are May-June and September-October. The market itself works mostly at the return and in spring, when the Parisians of the Bréauté line come down to view in the calm. In winter the borough returns to its residents: that is the season of serious decisions.
Property finder in Étretat
Everything above, we read for you. Everything below, we do for you.
A property finder in Étretat 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 our two offers are detailed below.
05The service
A buyer-side search mandate, a written method, fees due on success. Here is what you entrust to Home Select in Étretat.
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 buy-to-let investment in Étretat, whether you are on site or abroad: the search is run remotely, video viewings included, up to the decisive viewing.
Two offers, 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.
45 days of search on average, 3 viewings on average instead of more than 40, and a first answer within one working day.
The six steps of your hunt
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.
We cover the whole market: published listings, and above all what is never displayed anywhere. Our network of 15,000 professional partners surfaces more than 100 properties for us every day before they go on sale, and we approach owners directly when the setting calls for it.
More than 100 off-market properties surfaced every day by the network.
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.
3 viewings on average, instead of 40.
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.
6% obtained on average off the asking price.
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 our checklists.
Every document checked before you commit.
We stay by your side through to the signing before the notaire, and after: contractors, formalities, moving. Our work ends when you are settled in, not when the deed is signed.
45 days on average from the brief to the authentic deed.
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| 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: 6% obtained on average on the asking price.
What negotiation weighs
Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
In Étretat, “sea view” can mean the Aiguille squarely framed or a slice of Channel between two roofs: the gap between the two is the first factor of value in this market. The view is checked from every room, floor by floor, and on site at different hours, never on the photographs of a listing.
The old fabric of the resort, timber, flint and roofs, calls for a serious technical survey: structure, damp, insulation, energy. The legal surveys do not suffice on this heritage; a local tradesman costs the real works, and that figure serves the negotiation better than any argument.
The market being so narrow, the temptation is strong to seize the first property that comes up. Yet properties overpriced in the wake of the post-2020 surge can stay long without an offer. Defining your real use, borough or heights, view or garden, lets you wait for the right address instead of enduring someone else’s.
A property finder answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.
06Off-market properties
A share of the finest sales in Étretat completes without ever being listed. The Home Select network of 15,000 professional partners surfaces more than 100 properties every day before publication, and Home Select 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.
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08Client reviews
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09Your project
The questions common to all our cities (purchase costs, remote search, choosing your finder) are gathered on one page: all our frequently asked questions.
Because the local market has its own rules. A very narrow market since the post-2020 surge: cliff views almost never come back for sale. 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.
Based on actual recorded sales (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales), the median price in Étretat stands at €2,700/m² for a house. Across the sectors of our survey, the median ranges from €1,300/m² (Saint-Jouin-Bruneval et Angerville-la-Campagne) to €2,100/m² (Fécamp et Yport). These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
Yes, but rarely through a listing: the properties looking at the Aiguille, the Manneporte or the open sea trade between insiders, after years of watching. The right approach: declare your search to the local networks and to a finder, then be patient. Properties without a view, in the borough or on the heights, come back more regularly.
Yes: Étretat is the core of the perimeter, and the watch extends along the Albâtre coast, from Fécamp to Le Havre, thirty minutes down the road. Deauville and the Côte Fleurie are an hour away. Those neighbouring markets complete the search when the borough yields nothing, which happens often.
In 2025, 47 sales were recorded in Étretat: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for houses is up +6% since 2021, +19% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Our searches complete in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40 and about fifteen hours of your time. In Étretat, the exact calendar depends on how rare the target property is: it is framed at the brief, then held.
Through the network and direct approach: Home Select’s 15,000 professional partners surface more than 100 properties every day before they go on sale, and Home Select also contacts owners when the setting calls for it. In Étretat, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the borough and the beach, then the Aval cliff and the Aiguille. That is often where the unfindable property is.
Because Maurice Leblanc lived here: his house, the Clos Lupin, remains a place of memory, and his most famous novel, “The Hollow Needle”, hides its treasure in the Aiguille of the Aval cliff. The gentleman burglar fixed the image of the place well beyond France. For a buyer, this aura has a concrete effect: demand exceeds the stock of a borough of fourteen hundred residents, and reinforces the rarity of the addresses facing the cliffs.
The borough and the beach for life on foot and the pebbles at the end of the streets, the Aval cliff for views over the Aiguille and the Manneporte, the Amont side for the chapel and the gardens, the heights for Anglo-Norman villas and gardens: four rare markets in a commune crossed in minutes.
The reality of the advertised view, the salt-spray exposure on the cliff side, the condition of the Anglo-Norman villas, timber and roofs included, and energy in an old fabric. Add the summer crowds, which change the use of the borough: all this is checked on site, at different hours and seasons.
Yes, with about fourteen hundred residents and shops that live through every season: it is a living borough, not a station dead in winter. Le Havre is thirty minutes away for full services, and community life holds the borough from October to April, when the cliffs return to the residents.
Parisians, two and a half hours away via Bréauté station, Norman families from Le Havre and Fécamp, and a discreet international clientele drawn by the cliffs. Demand grew sharply after 2020, on a stock that cannot grow: hence a very narrow market, where monitoring makes the difference.
Home Select, a property finder in Étretat, 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.
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