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Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you in Belcodène. You only visit the properties shortlisted, and nothing is due before the deed is signed.
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Home Select, a property finder in Belcodène since 2011, searches for village houses, houses with land and bastides exclusively on behalf of the buyer, from the village to the Regagnas hills. Home Select opens access to off-market properties through its network of 15,000 partners, with fees 100% on success: nothing is due before completion.
On a plateau at the foot of the Regagnas massif, between Fuveau, Peynier and La Bouilladisse, Belcodène is a village of some two thousand residents, surrounded by woods and garrigue that cover nearly three quarters of the municipality. Aix-en-Provence and Marseille are about half an hour away by road. Here, value rests on the land, the calm, the exposure and what the planning rules still allow.
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A property finder works for the buyer, and for the buyer alone. Here is what Home Select changes, concretely, for your purchase in Belcodène.
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 Belcodène 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 Belcodène.
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 Belcodène, 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 Belcodène 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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With nearly three quarters of the municipality in woods and garrigue, brush clearance is a legal obligation in zones exposed to forest fire, generally over 50 m around buildings and at the owner’s expense. Ask about the real condition of the land and have the clearing work costed before the offer.
The revision of the local plan clearly tightened the municipality’s building zones. Before you picture a pool, an extension or a division, have the zoning and permitted footprint of the plot checked, and look at the permits granted around the property.
Sales are too rare in Belcodène for a municipal median to be enough: the price of a house is also tested against DVF sales in La Bouilladisse, Fuveau or Peynier, for comparable surface, land and condition. Home Select does this work before every offer, documents in hand.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Belcodène, 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 Belcodène 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 Belcodène.
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.
Recherche depuis l’étranger
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. Trouvé en 3 mois après 18 mois seuls
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 ! Acheteur basé en province
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.
Après huit mois seuls, une semaine
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. Un suivi qui dure après la signature
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 La maison de famille, enfin
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 25 October 2026, reviewed by Jean Mascla, founder of Home Select
From Gréasque et Cadolive to Auriol, the median gap reaches +21 %: the neighbourhood prices the property as much as its floor area.
In Belcodène, the market is small and made of houses: village houses on the plateau, detached houses on their plots around it, old bastides and isolated houses in the hills. Sales are rare, so the price of a property is also read against La Bouilladisse, Fuveau or Peynier. Buyers come mostly from the metropolitan area: families and working people who want the calm of the woods within reach of Aix and Marseille.
Value rests on the land more than on the building: the exposure, the view, the slope, the distance to the village, the real calm once you reach the house. The woods, which cover most of the municipality, make brush clearance mandatory in exposed zones; and the revision of the local plan clearly tightened the building zones: what a plot still allows, a pool, an extension or a division, is checked before the offer.
Home Select runs the search remotely, from its management and with its network of partners: every property is qualified on documents and in a video pre-viewing run with the seller’s agent, its price tested against comparable DVF sales in Belcodène and the neighbouring municipalities, and the buyer travels only for the decisive viewings, grouped into a single trip.
From the village on its plateau to the Regagnas hills, Belcodène moves from the village house to bastides and houses in the woods.
The heart of the municipality, on its plateau: the church of Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, the town hall, the library and a square with a wide viewpoint. Village houses and older homes, often on modest plots, with the essentials on foot. Every Easter Monday, the Roumavage, a large municipal picnic, brings the residents together.
At the foot of the Regagnas massif, the hills that cover most of the municipality: woods, garrigue and trails, where the Trail des Castellas runs in spring. The houses set against them offer calm and space. In zones exposed to forest fire, brush clearance is mandatory over 50 m around buildings: its condition is audited before the offer.
A few hundred metres from the library, the multipurpose hall and the sports ground, a residential quarter that keeps the village within walking distance. Older buildings and recent ones stand side by side: the year of construction, the surfaces and past works are checked on documents, as are recent permits nearby.
One of the quarters where Belcodène has granted building permits in recent years. Here, the local plan matters as much as the house: zoning, footprint, a possible extension, pool or outbuilding. The drainage, mains or off-mains and inspected by the SPANC, and the rights of way are checked before the offer.
Beyond the village, homes scatter across the countryside and the hills: old Provençal bastides, farms and isolated houses, linked by municipal lanes. The calm is complete, provided you check the access and its rights of way, the water, the off-mains drainage inspected by the SPANC and the brush clearance.
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Belcodène at a glance
Village life gathers around the church of Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, the town hall and the library, open since 1994, with a square that opens onto a wide viewpoint. Every Easter Monday, the council holds the Roumavage, from a Provençal word meaning “pilgrimage”: a large picnic for all residents. Classed as a rural town by Insee, the municipality keeps the scale of a village, within the Pays d’Aubagne et de l’Étoile.
Around it, woods and garrigue cover nearly three quarters of the land. In spring, the Trail des Castellas runs through the Regagnas massif, and the ruined tower of the Castellas remains the landmark of the village’s past. The climate is truly Mediterranean: hot, dry summers, generous sunshine, frequent wind. In summer, access to the forest massifs of the Bouches-du-Rhône is regulated day by day according to the fire risk.
In Belcodène, a house is kept and passed on when it brings together what can no longer be reproduced: a well-exposed plot, the calm of the woods, the village close by. As the revision of the local plan tightened the building zones, such plots are not multiplying. What remains is to check it property by property: brush clearance, drainage, access and rights of way, the condition of the building, and a price tested against DVF sales in the municipality and its neighbours.
The village for a house that is simple to close, the Regagnas hills and the hamlets for a house with land, in the calm. Marseille Provence airport, about forty minutes away, makes short stays possible in every season. Before the offer, count the upkeep of a house closed for part of the year: garden, brush clearance, surveillance.
Belcodène lends itself to year-round life: Aix-en-Provence and Marseille are about half an hour away by road, and the Aix TGV station some forty kilometres away. Families look for a house with a garden near the village, at Les Hautes Bastides for instance, remote workers for space and woods. The real criterion here is the daily journey to school and work, to be tested at rush hour.
Marseille Provence airport lies some fifty kilometres away, about forty minutes by road. The Aix-en-Provence TGV station, some forty kilometres away, puts Paris about three hours away. Aix-en-Provence and Marseille are reached in about half an hour. Once there, a car is essential: the municipality has no railway station, and the village, the quarters and the hamlets are linked by road.
The international community in Belcodène. For a buyer from abroad, Belcodène offers inland Provence, half an hour from the services of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. The difficulty is not the welcome but managing from afar: a house in the woods calls for upkeep and brush clearance, a village house closes more simply. France imposes no condition of nationality or residence on a buyer; Home Select qualifies every lead on documents and in a video pre-viewing.
When to visit, when to buy? The market picks up in spring, from March to June, then after the summer, in September and October. In summer, heat and fire risk weigh on viewings: access to the forest massifs is regulated day by day. Winter shows the village as it lives. For a remote buyer, the brief is set in winter, the video pre-viewings follow in spring, and the trip for the decisive viewings is timed for May-June or the autumn.
Because the local market has its own rules. Nearly three quarters of the municipality is woodland or garrigue: the mandatory brush clearance is audited before the offer. 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.
Because the municipality is small and largely wooded: its housing stock is limited, and the revision of the local plan tightened the building zones. Well-priced properties often sell fast. Home Select tests every price against DVF sales in Belcodène and the neighbouring municipalities, for comparable surface and land.
Fire first: in exposed zones, brush clearance is mandatory, generally over 50 m around buildings, and falls to the owner. Then the access and its rights of way, the off-mains drainage inspected by the SPANC and what the local plan allows. Home Select has these points checked on documents.
From Gréasque et Cadolive to Auriol, the median gap reaches +21 %: the neighbourhood prices the property as much as its floor area.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Belcodène 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 Belcodène, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the village, then the Regagnas hills. That is often where the unfindable property is.
Yes, provided you weigh the upkeep. A house in the hills calls for regular brush clearance, a tended garden and surveillance while it is closed; a village house closes more simply, on a smaller plot. Marseille Provence airport, about forty minutes away, and the Aix-en-Provence TGV station, some forty kilometres away, make short stays possible.
Home Select, a property finder in Belcodène, runs the search remotely from its management, with its network of 15,000 partners. The brief is set by video call or phone, every property is qualified on documents, then in a video pre-viewing run with the seller’s agent, and the price is tested against comparable DVF 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.
Yes: it is above all a village people live in while working in the metropolitan area, with Aix-en-Provence and Marseille about half an hour away by road. The village offers its church, town hall and library, and buses of the metropolitan network serve it; a car remains essential, as there is no railway station. Out of season, the village shows the face you will live with: that is the one to judge.
By having it filmed properly: during the video pre-viewing run with the seller’s agent, Home Select has the camera show the arrival along the lane, the plot boundaries, the state of the brush clearance, the exposure and the views from the terrace. The local plan and the land register then tell what could be built around it. What the screen shows is finally checked on documents: rights of way, drainage, surveys.
Often, yes: a bastide or an old house may need work on the roof, drainage, wiring or insulation. The surveys, energy rating, asbestos, lead, termites depending on the zone, electricity, gas and the risk statement, are paid for by the seller and are read before the offer. Home Select tests the asking price against real sales; the works are costed by a professional before the offer.
The market picks up in spring and after the summer. In summer, heat and fire risk weigh on viewings, and access to the forest massifs is regulated day by day; winter shows the village as it lives. 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 Belcodène, 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 (139 reviews), fees displayed, 100% on success.
Home Select, a property finder in Belcodène, 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 Belcodène. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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