Nîmes, Occitanie
Occitanie · Gard
The French Rome keeps its arena from the close of the first century, its Maison Carrée listed by UNESCO in 2023, its Tour Magne at the end of the Jardins de la Fontaine: Nîmes lives amid its Roman stones. The serge de Nîmes, the cloth once woven here for sailors’ trousers, gave the world denim. For a buyer, the town lines up a rare stock of private mansions to restore in the Écusson and town houses with courtyards, three hours from Paris by TGV and thirty minutes from Montpellier.
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The essentials
Home Select is a property finder in Nîmes, founded in 2011, searching for private mansions and town houses exclusively on behalf of the buyer, from the Écusson to the Jardins de la Fontaine. The firm opens access to off-market properties in a town where the finest stones still change hands between those who know them, with fees 100% on success: nothing is due before the purchase completes.
Nîmes at a glance
01The market
In 2025, 2,443 sales were recorded in Nîmes: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for apartments is up +9% since 2021, +5% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Sales range from €1,100/m² to €3,200/m²: address and condition make the price.
The Nîmes market reads first as stock: never a resort market, but a dense old centre behind carriage gates, private mansions waiting for restoration, town houses with courtyards, tired apartment buildings. Values remain moderate and rising, carried by the rail link and by buyers rediscovering how much heritage a town of 150,000 residents carries. Restoration, street by street, widens the gap between the renovated property and the one next door.
Old stone is the raw material here, and it demands as much survey as nerve: thick walls, narrow courtyards, damp ground floors, co-ownerships sometimes divided between heirs. Energy ratings weigh heavily on unrestored older stock, and the gap between two twin buildings on the same street can come down to one façade programme voted or postponed. For a buyer, the true cost of a carriage gate is calculated after the survey, not before.
Then the geography: the Écusson, the Jardins de la Fontaine, Montaury and Les Costières do not sell the same town. Two streets apart, a dark flat overlooks a walkway and a bright floor overlooks the roofs; a Montaury house offers quiet and a garden where the Écusson offers shops at the door. The market plays out at exactly that scale, and address, in the literal sense, sets the price.
| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €2,000/m² | 2,081 |
| 2022 | €2,100/m² | 2,154 |
| 2023 | €2,200/m² | 1,790 |
| 2024 | €2,100/m² | 1,547 |
| 2025 | €2,200/m² | 1,782 |
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.
| Type | Median €/m² | Median surface | Median home price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 room | €2,400/m² | 24 m² | €58,000 |
| 2 rooms | €2,300/m² | 44 m² | €101,000 |
| 3 rooms | €2,200/m² | 65 m² | €143,000 |
| 4 rooms | €1,700/m² | 79 m² | €134,000 |
| 5 rooms and more | €1,700/m² | 127 m² | €216,000 |
Median home price = median €/m² x median surface of the bracket (2025): an order of magnitude, not a valuation.
| Date | Type | Street | Area | Price | Price per sqm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Route de Beaucaire | 55 m² | €85,000 | €1,500/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Impasse Montaury | 26 m² | €73,000 | €2,800/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Avenue Maréchal Lyautey | 23 m² | €60,000 | €2,600/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Route d’Avignon | 53 m² | €121,000 | €2,300/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Chemin du Capouchine | 43 m² | €114,000 | €2,700/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue de la Garenne | 56 m² | €90,000 | €1,600/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue Auguste Bosc | 76 m² | €205,000 | €2,700/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Avenue Pierre Gamel | 19 m² | €31,000 | €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: Nîmes trades 5% 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 Nîmes, address by address and condition included, is the first thing we tell you at the first conversation.
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02The neighbourhoods
An old centre tight around its Roman stones, 18th-century gardens, quiet heights: Nîmes changes market from one quarter to the next.
The pedestrian old centre, between the arena and the Maison Carrée: private mansions to restore behind carriage gates, older buildings of dense character. This is the heart of the Nîmes heritage market, demanding on surveys and works. Restoration moves street by street, which opens real gaps from one building to the next.
The Jardins de la Fontaine, laid out in the 18th century around the spring, climb towards the Tour Magne; the Quai de la Fontaine runs along the water. The residences lining this décor rarely sell: floors with a view over the gardens, mansions with terraces. It is the romantic address of the town, steps from the Écusson.
The residential heights away from the centre: older houses and villas with gardens, quiet streets, families year-round. You gain the space and the silence an Écusson flat cannot offer, at the cost of the car. Supply is steady and readable, and houses with a true garden remain the most contested properties.
South of the centre, a family quarter of town houses and villas with gardens, away from tourism, close to the schools. Values are more contained than in the Écusson, for larger surfaces: many Nîmes families start here, before dreaming, one day, of a carriage gate in the old centre.
Old apartments and private mansions behind the carriage gates, the town on foot, the market at the door. Demanding heritage, for buyers who want stone and can read a works plan.
The residences looking over the 18th-century gardens and the climb to the Tour Magne: bright floors, terraces, a romantic address. Rare supply, often treated privately when a floor comes free.
Older houses and villas with gardens, quiet streets, families year-round: space and parking minutes from the centre. Houses with a true garden draw the steadiest demand.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Nîmes. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Nîmes, 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
Nîmes is lived on foot and through its squares: the market around the Écusson, café terraces in the shade of the arena, the ferias that fill the town with crowds and music, the streets where the serge de Nîmes claims its history. The town has kept its centre shops, its schools, and a young population that fills the lanes in the evening: this is not a shop window, it is a town that works.
On Sundays the walk climbs through the Jardins de la Fontaine to the Tour Magne, along the Quai de la Fontaine, past the Maison Carrée as one greets a neighbour. The Pont du Gard is twenty-five minutes away, Montpellier thirty, and Paris stays three hours away by train when work or family calls. In between, the garrigue starts at the town gates.
Three projects, three markets
Nîmes offers a rare profile: a great town of art where old stock to restore remains within reach and rental demand holds all year, working households and families included. Value is created at the worksite: structure, energy and façades are costed before the offer. Co-ownership charges and the energy rating weigh heavily on unrestored stock: that is where the real negotiation happens.
For a second home, Nîmes plays the town: arena, market, Jardins de la Fontaine, and the Pont du Gard twenty-five minutes away for weekends. Managing from afar takes preparation: façade works, watching over a courtyard, a trusted craftsman for old buildings. A Montaury house with a garden lives all year; an Écusson floor also lends itself to letting between stays.
Settling in Nîmes means choosing a complete town: schools, shops, market and services, with Montpellier thirty minutes away and Paris three hours by train. Families hesitate between a floor in the Écusson and a house with a garden in Montaury or Les Costières: two lives, often in the same search. The town lives twelve months a year, ferias included, and the Gard countryside starts at the gates.
04From abroad
Paris is about three hours away by TGV, and Montpellier thirty minutes by train: the station keeps the capital within a working week. Marseille Provence airport is about an hour by road. The Pont du Gard, twenty-five minutes away, makes the weekend escape. In town, the Écusson is walked, and the residential quarters of the south and the heights link up along the boulevards.
The UNESCO listing of the Maison Carrée has put Nîmes in the international guides, and foreign buyers follow: European buyers first, drawn by the heritage and by the train. English is spoken in the central agencies and among the craftsmen of old buildings, used to non-resident owners. It is a town where settling year-round stays simple, schools and services included.
A town of 150,000 residents, Nîmes lives all year, which keeps its market steady: summer loads up with tourists around the arena and the ferias, but sales are mostly done in spring and at the September return. In winter the Écusson becomes Nîmois again, and viewings happen quietly. For a buyer, the low season opens access to owners the summer distracts.
Property finder in Nîmes
Everything above, we read for you. Everything below, we do for you.
A property finder in Nîmes 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 Nîmes.
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 Nîmes, 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.
Behind a fine carriage gate sit tired floors, altered load-bearing walls, flood-prone courtyards. Have the property walked through by a professional before the offer: on this stock, structure is judged in the attic and the cellar, not from the street.
Town of art and history: around the arena and the Maison Carrée, façades, joinery and shopfronts fall under mandatory approvals, and some courtyards are shared between several owners. Those rules are checked at the town hall before the purchase, never after.
A town house with a courtyard gives you summer in the middle of town but asks for vigilant upkeep; a high floor in the Écusson gives light and rooftops without the garden. The two do not compare on paper: visit as the sun turns.
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 Nîmes 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
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
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 town that rises without hurrying: renovated properties sell fast, the stock to renovate demands a proper works plan. 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 Nîmes stands at €2,200/m² for an apartment and €2,500/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in our survey: Sommières et Calvisson, €3,100/m² median. These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
In 2025, 3 rooms traded at a median of €2,200/m², on a median surface of 65 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €143,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
It is the classic Nîmes transaction, provided the survey comes before the offer: structure, damp, charges voted, façade works. A mansion left as it is negotiates differently from a restored building, but the works are costed before committing, not after. Securing that reading is precisely our role.
In the Écusson and around the Jardins de la Fontaine, yes: shops, the market and the monuments are on foot, and Montpellier is thirty minutes away. The TGV keeps Paris about three hours away, Marseille Provence airport about an hour. The car only becomes useful again for the southern quarters and the heights.
In 2025, 2,443 sales were recorded in Nîmes: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for apartments is up +9% since 2021, +5% 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 Nîmes, 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 Nîmes, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the Écusson, then the Jardins de la Fontaine and the quai. That is often where the unfindable property is.
It consecrates an exceptional Roman ensemble and puts Nîmes on the world heritage map, alongside the great towns of art in the South. For the market, that means a more attentive international clientele, better upkeep of the old centre and clearer protection rules around the monuments. The buyer gains lasting value, provided the constraints that protect this setting are accepted.
The Écusson for old stone and life on foot, the Jardins de la Fontaine and the quai for the romantic address, Montaury for houses with gardens on the heights, Les Costières for family space at contained values. Four markets, one reflex: compare at equal use, not at equal listed price.
Plan the property and the works together: in the Écusson, a mansion to restore trades differently from a renovated flat, and the site is costed before the offer. In Les Costières or Montaury, the same envelope buys more space and a garden. The useful question is use, not the listed price.
The structure of the old stock, charges and works voted in co-ownership, the state of roofs and façades, the energy rating of unrestored buildings, and the protection rules around the monuments. None of that reads on a listing: it is checked on paper and on site, before the offer.
Parisians arriving by train, Montpellier residents after an old centre, local families looking for a house with a garden, and international buyers drawn by the heritage. That mix keeps the market alive all year, without the swings of the resorts.
Home Select, a property finder in Nîmes, 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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One maison, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Nîmes. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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