Bayonne, Basque Country
Basque Country · Pyrénées-Atlantiques
At the confluence of the Nive and the Adour, Bayonne is the historic capital of the Basque country: 52,000 residents, a Sainte-Marie cathedral built between the 13th and 16th centuries and listed as world heritage under the routes to Compostela, and lanes of half-timber and stone between the two banks. Capital of chocolate since the 17th century, town of ham and of the early-August fêtes, it lives all year like few towns on this coast. Its market is firm, below Biarritz, and its old stock is narrow: town houses often trade before any listing.
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The essentials
Home Select is a property finder in Bayonne, founded in 2011, searching for town houses and apartments exclusively on behalf of the buyer, from Grand Bayonne to the southern suburbs. The firm opens access to off-market properties in a historic capital with a narrow old stock, where demand outruns supply in every season. Fees 100% on success: nothing is due before the purchase completes.
Bayonne at a glance
01The market
In 2025, 886 sales were recorded in Bayonne: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
After +7% since 2021, the past year pauses (-1%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
Sales range from €2,800/m² to €5,300/m²: address and condition make the price.
Bayonne offers the rare compromise of the Basque coast: a complete city, ten minutes from the ocean, whose values still sit below Biarritz’s. The stock decides everything: half-timber and stone houses of old Bayonne, private mansions of the ancient quarters, a few characterful apartments in the buildings of the two banks. Demand is strong and permanent, local as much as Parisian, and supply does not keep up: well-presented properties are agreed quickly, often through networks.
The markets differ bank by bank: Grand Bayonne, around the cathedral, the noblest; Petit Bayonne, with its lively lanes, the most animated; Saint-Esprit, north of the Adour, more accessible and changing; the southern suburbs around the bullring, more family-minded. Everywhere, the old fabric calls for survey: half-timber and stone, roof frames, floor levels, drainage, and small co-ownerships where one voted works changes the whole equation.
| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €3,800/m² | 1,118 |
| 2022 | €4,100/m² | 1,011 |
| 2023 | €4,200/m² | 741 |
| 2024 | €4,000/m² | 658 |
| 2025 | €4,000/m² | 797 |
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 | €4,200/m² | 30 m² | €126,000 |
| 2 rooms | €4,100/m² | 45 m² | €185,000 |
| 3 rooms | €3,900/m² | 66 m² | €257,000 |
| 4 rooms | €3,800/m² | 84 m² | €319,000 |
| 5 rooms and more | €2,900/m² | 127 m² | €368,000 |
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 | Chemin de Laharie | 97 m² | €460,000 | €4,700/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue des Peupliers | 70 m² | €215,000 | €3,100/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue Bourgneuf | 97 m² | €375,000 | €3,900/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Boulevard Alsace Lorraine | 104 m² | €260,000 | €2,500/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Chemin de Laharie | 66 m² | €267,000 | €4,000/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Chemin de Chauron | 100 m² | €725,000 | €7,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Impasse Bernard Tambourindeguy | 62 m² | €253,000 | €4,100/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue des Cordeliers | 51 m² | €195,000 | €3,800/m² |
Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices.
The city and its department: Bayonne trades 18% 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 Bayonne, address by address and condition included, is the first thing we tell you at the first conversation.
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02The neighbourhoods
Two banks between Nive and Adour, one district north of the river: four markets in the same city.
The noblest bank, around Sainte-Marie cathedral and the streets running down to the Nive: private mansions, stone houses, characterful buildings. The stock is the narrowest in town and trades through notaries and networks, often without ever reaching a listing.
On the left bank of the Nive, the liveliest district in town: lanes of half-timber and stone, historic chocolate makers, tables and shops that give old Bayonne its reputation as the Basque capital of good living. Characterful apartments are much sought after, and the buildings need the same survey as anywhere in the old fabric.
North of the Adour, Saint-Esprit is a town within the town: more recent buildings and houses, more accessible values, demand from first-time buyers and renters. For a buyer priced out of old Bayonne, it is often the way in, minutes on foot from the cathedral across the footbridge.
To the south, around the bullring and towards the outskirts, the fabric opens up: town houses with gardens, small buildings, a more family scale. This is the market for buyers who want Bayonne and a patch of ground, at values more contained than the old banks, with the station and the roads to Spain close by.
Private mansions and stone houses around Sainte-Marie cathedral: the noble bank of town, with the narrowest stock, trading through notaries and networks.
Lively lanes, half-timber, chocolate makers and tables: the characterful apartments of the liveliest district, much sought after by buyers who want the city on foot.
North of the Adour, more accessible buildings and houses: the entry point of the Bayonne market, minutes on foot from the old banks across the bridge.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Bayonne. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Bayonne, 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
Bayonne is lived on foot, from one bank to the other. In the morning, the chocolate makers of the old town, historic manufacturers since the 17th century, the shops of the half-timbered lanes, Sainte-Marie cathedral bathed in light: the town has the density of old capitals. Ham and the Easter fair, the tables of Petit Bayonne, everything meets within a few streets.
Every early August, since 1932, the Fêtes de Bayonne turn the whole town into a week of white-and-red crowds, among the largest popular festivals in France; the rest of the year, Bayonne becomes a city of 52,000 residents again, with its schools, its crafts and its banks of Nive and Adour. Biarritz and the ocean are next door, Anglet and its beaches too: the capital is the balance point of the conurbation.
Three projects, three markets
Bayonne lets you buy into a town that works all year, with rental demand carried by employment and families rather than by the season alone. The old fabric calls for works and energy vigilance, but it offers what new build no longer makes: stone, volumes, an address. Short lets stay regulated around the Fêtes and the weekends.
A small house in old Bayonne is the simplest second address of the Basque country: direct TGV from Paris, shops on foot, and the ocean a quarter of an hour away for weekends. Running it from a distance is easy, craftsmen of old fabric are many, and the town offers enough life to fill every season, from the August Fêtes to the Easter fair.
Settling in Bayonne means choosing the city over the resort: schools, shops, station and cultural life on foot, with the ocean and the beaches of Anglet and Biarritz next door. The TGV reaches Paris in about three and a half hours, Bordeaux is two hours away, and children grow up between Nive and Adour. It is the choice of many families of the conurbation.
04From abroad
Biarritz airport is fifteen minutes away, and the TGV links Paris in about three and a half hours; Bordeaux is about two hours by train. The motorway runs down to Spain and San Sebastián, and up to Bordeaux; inside, the old quarters cross on foot and the bridges span the Nive and the Adour. Bayonne is that rarity: an ancient city at the gates of a TGV station.
The international community drawn by the Basque coast chooses Bayonne more and more for the year: the town offers the services, the schools and the station that resorts cannot always guarantee. English is heard in the lanes of Petit Bayonne as in the agencies, and the Basque associational life, songs and pelota, welcomes whoever seeks it.
The Bayonne calendar has one summit: the Fêtes of early August, which take over the centre and fill every diary. The property market keeps another rhythm, active in spring and at the September return, sustained all year by local demand that does not go on holiday. Summer serves second-home buyers; the late season, the serious transactions of old Bayonne.
Property finder in Bayonne
Everything above, we read for you. Everything below, we do for you.
A property finder in Bayonne 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 Bayonne.
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 Bayonne, 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.
Discover the method in detail Every step of buying in France
| 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.
The old houses of Bayonne often hide structures altered over the centuries: sills, framing, uneven floor levels, damp cellars. The legal surveys do not say everything; have them completed by a specialist of old fabric before the offer, above all if you plan to convert the attic or relevel floors.
Old Bayonne counts many small co-ownerships: service charges shared between few lots, voted façade works, old collective heating. Ask for the general meeting minutes and the maintenance record, and compare two neighbouring buildings before deciding: situations diverge fast.
Living steps from the liveliest streets of the Basque country has a price in decibels, above all in early August when the Fêtes take over the centre. If you seek quiet, aim for floors overlooking a courtyard, set-back streets or Saint-Esprit; if you love the city at full intensity, Petit Bayonne is made for you.
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06Off-market properties
A share of the finest sales in Bayonne 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. Strong demand, narrow old stock: town houses often trade before any public listing. 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 Bayonne stands at €4,000/m² for an apartment and €4,500/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in our survey: Biarritz et Arcangues, €7,000/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 €3,900/m², on a median surface of 66 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €257,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Two banks, two uses: Grand Bayonne is the nobler and the quieter, between cathedral and mansions; Petit Bayonne is the livelier, with its tables and its lanes, which delights some evenings and wearies others. Saint-Esprit offers a third way, more accessible, north of the Adour.
Yes, and it is one of the town’s arguments: shops, schools and the station are all within walking distance of the old quarters, and the conurbation’s transport runs to Biarritz and Anglet. The car mostly serves to go and watch the waves, and the ocean stays a quarter of an hour away.
In 2025, 886 sales were recorded in Bayonne: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. After +7% since 2021, the past year pauses (-1%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
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 Bayonne, 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 Bayonne, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Grand Bayonne, then Petit Bayonne. That is often where the unfindable property is.
The gap is structural: Biarritz sells the ocean and its seafront, Bayonne sells a complete city at the confluence of the Nive and the Adour. But the gap narrows as buyers look for year-round life, the station and the schools rather than the postcard. Old Bayonne, as narrow and protected as it is, has what it takes to hold the comparison for a long time.
Grand Bayonne for noble stone and quiet, Petit Bayonne for lively lanes and tables, Saint-Esprit for a more accessible market north of the Adour, the southern suburbs around the Arènes for houses with gardens: four markets in one city, to arbitrate by use.
The state of the half-timber and roof frames, small co-ownerships and their charges, the noise of the animated centre, and traffic in the narrow streets. On so tight an old stock, technical survey and reading the minutes are worth more than any late negotiation.
Yes, and that is its strength: 52,000 residents, shops, schools and cultural life that do not stop in September. The early-August Fêtes are a high point, not a season: the town belongs first to those who live here all year.
Bayonne people trading up or moving closer to the centre, Parisian families drawn by the TGV, Bordeaux buyers and Northern Europeans for whom the town offers the Basque coast without the seafront price. A broad, lasting demand, facing a narrow old stock.
Home Select, a property finder in Bayonne, 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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Basque Country
One maison, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Bayonne. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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