Honfleur, Normandie
Normandy · Calvados
Honfleur owes its value to what cannot be reproduced: an old harbour ringed with timber-framed façades, a wooden church built by ships’ carpenters, and the light the Impressionists came here to find. A small town, limited supply, constant Parisian and international demand: the three ingredients of a market that stays tight all year.
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The essentials
Home Select is a property finder in Honfleur, founded in 2011, searching for characterful houses and apartments exclusively on behalf of the buyer, from the old harbour to the Côte de Grâce. The firm opens access to off-market properties, decisive in a listed centre that cannot grow, with fees 100% on success: nothing is due before the purchase completes.
Honfleur at a glance
On the ground
In 2025, 149 sales were recorded in Honfleur: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for apartments is up +8% since 2021, +12% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Sales range from €2,100/m² to €5,000/m²: address and condition make the price.
The Honfleur market is one of the firmest on the Normandy coast, and the most constrained: the listed centre does not grow, and every timber-framed house that comes free finds a buyer. Tension is sharpest around the old harbour, where character and the view over the port carry the town’s highest values.
On the heights, the Côte de Grâce offers houses with a view over the estuary and a quiet the centre does not have. Saint-Léonard, more family-minded, widens the supply towards year-round use. The gaps turn on location, the condition of the old fabric and the aspect, more than on floor area.
| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €3,300/m² | 133 |
| 2022 | €3,800/m² | 114 |
| 2023 | €3,700/m² | 102 |
| 2024 | €3,100/m² | 92 |
| 2025 | €3,500/m² | 94 |
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.
| Date | Type | Street | Area | Price | Price per sqm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Rue Des Lingots | 21 m² | €100,000 | €4,800/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Rue Lucie Delarue Mardrus | 80 m² | €284,000 | €3,600/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Boulevard Charles 5 | 94 m² | €230,000 | €2,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | apartments | Rue Eugene Boudin | 16 m² | €55,000 | €3,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Chemin Du Buquet | 208 m² | €380,000 | €1,800/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Chemin Des Monts | 420 m² | €920,000 | €2,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Rue Du Puits | 336 m² | €445,000 | €1,300/m² |
| Dec 2025 | houses | Rue Du Puits | 112 m² | €510,000 | €4,600/m² |
Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices. Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property.
Micro-markets
From the basin to the heights, four addresses and four prices, in a town that fits inside a walk.
The tall narrow façades that make the town’s image: apartments and houses overlooking the basin, among the terraces and galleries. The dearest and most contested segment, rarely available, often without parking.
Around the wooden church and its separate belfry: timber-framed houses, shops and the market on foot. Character in its pure state, with the constraints of a listed area on façades, roofs and works.
The plateau above the town, the chapel and the view over the Seine estuary: houses with gardens, longères and quiet properties minutes from the centre. The choice of space and of the view.
The residential quarter behind the centre: town houses and homes with gardens, schools and services within reach. The address for regular or year-round use, at more measured values than on the harbour.
To the west, the côte fleurie and its resorts: Trouville, Deauville and their boardwalks, the station and the airport. A neighbouring market explored in parallel, with its own page on this site.
Targeting precisely
Old basin and historic centre: a characterful apartment or house steps from the harbour, with a sought-after view and period character. The rarest segment, often without parking.
The Côte de Grâce: a house on the heights with a view over the Seine estuary, quiet and minutes from the centre. The choice of space and a garden.
Saint-Léonard and the upper town: a more affordable, more family-minded address that widens the supply towards regular or year-round use.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Honfleur. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Art de vivre
Honfleur is covered on foot, and that is half its value. The old basin and its tall façades, the Sainte-Catherine church built in wood by ships' carpenters, the cobbled lanes, the galleries: the town was the subject of Boudin, Monet and Jongkind, and it knows it. The Saturday market on the square still plays the leading part.
The other half is in what surrounds it: the Côte de Grâce and its view over the estuary, the pays d'Auge farms ten minutes away, the côte fleurie and its boardwalks twenty. Honfleur is not a seaside resort, it is a harbour that kept its shape, which is why people also come in November.
Non-resident buyers
Honfleur is served by Deauville-Normandy airport, about twenty minutes away, with seasonal and business links; for long-haul, Caen-Carpiquet is 45 minutes away and both Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly about 2 h 30. By train, the Trouville-Deauville station, 20 minutes away, reaches Paris Saint-Lazare in about 2 h. The A13 and A29 motorways link the capital and the north-west directly: that proximity is what makes this a weekend market.
Honfleur draws an international clientele after a characterful second home within reasonable reach of Paris and its airports. The town lives mainly to the rhythm of weekends and the fine season, and services are organised around it. For a non-resident buyer, the real question is the upkeep of an old house used intermittently: it is settled before the purchase, not after.
The Honfleur market has two peaks, spring from April to June and the September return. Summer slows viewings without easing pressure on a narrow supply of older stock. For a remote buyer, May-June then September-October offer a pleasant climate and easier logistics, well suited to weekend use. The quieter winter shows the town as it is twelve months a year.
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Three projects, three markets
The same market does not read the same way depending on what you have come for. Here is what each of the three projects means on the ground.
Honfleur is a dense tourist market on a tiny supply: short-term letting works, within a communal and building framework to be investigated before the offer. The real issue is the fabric. Half-timbering, floors, damp and the protected sector govern works and decide the cost of a property far more than its asking price.
A characterful house near the Vieux-Bassin, an address on the Côte de Grâce or a flat in the upper town: Honfleur is lived in weekends all year, two hours from Paris. To investigate: access and parking in the pedestrian streets, the condition of the half-timbering, and consents for works in a protected sector.
Honfleur is a small town that lives all year, with its shops and its schools, and Le Havre twenty minutes away over the Normandy bridge for services and employment. Families look at Saint-Léonard, the upper town and the Côte de Grâce for gardens. Summer crowds concentrate on a few streets: the rest of the town breathes.
Off-market
A share of the finest sales in Honfleur 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.
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What Home Select changes
Plus a negotiation led for you: 6% obtained on average on the asking price.
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What negotiation weighs
Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
Price up my search in HonfleurThe method
Six precise movements, the same for every search, from the brief to the handover of the keys:
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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Advice from Home Select
In the listed centre, older houses need close attention to roof frames, timbering, damp and roofs. The survey costs a few hundred euros and sometimes moves the negotiation by tens of thousands.
The centre is pedestrian and parking, paid and limited, becomes the daily subject of a second home. A private space or a garage within walking distance changes what the property is worth to use, and is checked before, not after.
Summer and weekends give one image of the town; an off-season weekday gives another, truer one. You will gauge the real quiet of the street, the light in the room and what stays open.
Our offers
Exclusive search mandate
2.5% of the net purchase price Minimum €10,000 incl. VAT · every budget
The full service: framing, hunting the whole market including off-list, qualified viewings, negotiation, guidance through to the notaire.
Full fee detail
Simple search mandate
1.5% of the net purchase price Reserved for projects of €2m and above
The same full service, entirely dedicated to off-market properties: only confidential opportunities are presented to you.
Full fee detailPublished fees, no surprises: rare on this market, and deliberate.
Client reviews
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 !
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..
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.
Google reviews, gathered through fifteen years of searches. 4.8/5 on Google · 1,200+ buyers guided.
Frequently asked questions
Because the local market has its own rules. The listed centre does not grow: the supply of timber-framed houses is structurally closed. A property finder works for you alone, on the buyer’s side: daily monitoring, access to off-market sales around The old harbour and the quays and Sainte-Catherine and the pedestrian centre, 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, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025), the median price in Honfleur stands at €3,500/m² for an apartment and €2,800/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in our survey: Équemauville et le pays d'Auge proche, €2,400/m² median. These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
In 2025, 2 rooms traded at a median of €3,700/m² per sqm, on a median surface of 42 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, millésime avril 2026, ventes 2025). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €155,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Notaire fees first: around 7 to 8% of the price on an existing home, 2 to 3% on a new build, paid on the day of signing. Then the finder’s fee, due on success only, and depending on the property the taxe foncière, service charges and a works budget. Home Select prices the whole picture before the offer: the asking price hides nothing. Our notary fees calculator gives the order of magnitude in one line.
Deauville offers the boardwalk, a station two hours from Paris Saint-Lazare and resort life; Honfleur, a pedestrian historic core and a village scale. The two are twenty minutes apart and are often hunted in parallel: each has its page and its figures from the DVF vintage.
Yes: the Côte de Grâce, Équemauville, Barneville-la-Bertran and the villages of the nearby pays d’Auge are within the search area. Deauville and Trouville have their own page.
In 2025, 149 sales were recorded in Honfleur: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments is up +8% since 2021, +12% 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 Honfleur, the monitoring covers The old harbour and the quays and Sainte-Catherine and the pedestrian centre from day one, and the calendar, framed at the brief, is held.
Yes, it is Home Select’s daily routine: 30% of its clients are expatriates or international buyers. Video brief, remote shortlisting and commented pre-visits, viewings grouped into a single trip to Honfleur, and the team works in French and in English.
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 Honfleur, the monitoring covers The old harbour and the quays and Sainte-Catherine and the pedestrian centre first: that is often where the unfindable property is.
Yes, and that is what protects the value. Façades, roofs, joinery and signage are regulated, consents go through the national heritage architect, and timelines stretch. Worth framing before the offer when a renovation is part of the calculation.
The old basin for the view and absolute scarcity, Sainte-Catherine and the pedestrian centre for character and life on foot, the Côte de Grâce for space, a garden and the estuary view, Saint-Léonard for family use at more measured values.
The condition of the older fabric, the constraints of the listed area on works, parking in the pedestrian centre and the tourist crowds in season, best judged by sitting an hour on the quay on an August Saturday.
Mostly, yes, with Parisian weekend demand two hours away and an international clientele attached to Norman character. Saint-Léonard and the heights, on the other hand, hold a genuine year-round population.
To hunt in Honfleur, 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 (130+ reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select 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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