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Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you in Calas. 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 Calas founded in 2011, seeks villas and village houses exclusively on the buyer’s behalf, from the hamlet around the church to the estates of the Domaine de Calas, a village of the commune of Cabriès. 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.
Calas is not a municipality: it is a village of Cabriès, at the centre of the commune, between Aix and Marseille, and the one where the commune has grown most. Around the hamlet laid out in the nineteenth century at the foot of its church, estates of villas, the Domaine de Calas among them, have spread a few kilometres from the Aix-en-Provence TGV station. Here, value rests on the plot, a quiet street and the exposure, and is checked against the constraints of the plain.
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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 Calas.
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 Calas 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 Calas.
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 Calas, 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 Calas 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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On the plain of Calas, the part bordering the Grand Vallat is classified as a flood zone, and clay soils expose houses to shrink-swell movement. Ask for the risk report with the first documents, locate the plot on the flood-zone map and have walls and foundations examined before the offer.
The Domaine de Calas and the other villa estates may have their own rules: fences, extensions, pools, plot divisions. Ask for the rulebook, the regulations and the statutes of any owners’ association, then test your project against the local urban plan before the offer.
Calas is judged by its journeys: the D9 towards the TGV station, Marignane and Aix, the RD 543, the A51 via the Les Milles exit. Have the travel times to school and work measured at the hours you will make them, and have the street and its noise filmed during the video pre-viewing.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Calas, 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 Calas 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 Calas.
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
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 109 sales were recorded in Calas: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for houses is up +16% since June 2022, +3% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
From Vitrolles to Bouc-Bel-Air, the median gap reaches +76 %: the neighbourhood prices the property as much as its floor area.
Calas lives first on a market of houses. The old hamlet keeps a few village houses huddled around the church; all around, the estates of recent decades line up family villas on their plots, of every size and age. Across the commune, apartments remain rare. The sales shown on this page cover the whole commune of Cabriès, Calas included: the village cannot be read without it.
Value turns on what a listing leaves out: the size and shape of the plot, exposure to the mistral, the calm of a cul-de-sac rather than the D9 or the RD 543 nearby, the quality of construction. On the plain, the flood zone of the Grand Vallat and clay soils that swell then shrink weigh on use and value: they are read in the risk report, before the offer, never after.
Demand comes first from families who want the villa and the garden without moving away from Aix, Marseille or the TGV station. Home Select runs the search remotely, from its management and with its network of 15,000 partners: every property is qualified on documents and in a video pre-viewing, the price is tested against comparable sales, and the buyer travels only for the decisive viewings, grouped into a single trip.
| 12 months to end of June | Median | Sales counted (houses) |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | €4,900/m² | 90 |
| 2023 | €5,400/m² | 106 |
| 2024 | €5,300/m² | 62 |
| 2025 | €5,500/m² | 76 |
| 2026 | €5,600/m² | 92 |
Median for houses over 12 months to end of June, year by year. A period without enough sales at the threshold is not published: the curve skips it rather than inventing a point.
The city and its department: Calas trades 37% above its department median (€4,100/m²), same vintage and same method.
Source: DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026. Medians computed per transaction, published from 20 sales over the period. Market benchmarks, not an appraisal of your property. Updated: October 2026.
From the hamlet around the church to the estates of the Domaine de Calas, the village moves from the village house to the villa on its plot.
The hamlet laid out in the nineteenth century by Louise Garavaque, heiress to the lordship of Trébillane: houses on a repeated plan around the church of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption she had built, génoise eaves on the gables, the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette. Shops, post office and Saturday market on foot; a small stock, judged wall by wall.
The lordship, separated from Cabriès in 1708, left its name to the Château de Trébillane and to the Trébillane Roman villa, spotted from the air in 1960 on the fertile plain watered by the Grand Vallat. Shops, schools and the association halls of the oustau per toutti make up daily life. To check: the flood zone along the Grand Vallat.
Le Gay, pronounced “Gaille”, the jay in Provençal, is a quarter of recent streets bearing Provençal bird names: Roussignou for the nightingale, Perdigau for the partridge, where the hill is called the Manegrou, then Jussieu. Houses younger than those of the hamlet, whose construction and extensions are read on documents.
The hamlet of Saint-Pierre, near Lagremeuse, bears the mark of Antiquity: a villa was detected there from the air, perhaps the relay of Calcaria on the Roman road, and its chapel is of very ancient origin. The Domaine de Saint-Pierre au Pin, chapel, bastide and château, appears on the heritage inventory of the local urban plan.
It is through estates of villas, the Domaine de Calas among them, that the village has grown since the sixties, carried by Aix and Marseille, then by the TGV station opened in 2001. Family villas on their plots, with gardens: to check, the estate’s rulebook, the easements and brush clearance on the edge of the hills.
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Calas at a glance
Life in Calas fits within a village: the Saturday morning market on the square of the town-hall annex, the shops of the centre and of La Trébillane, two schools and a secondary school, the library and the cultural centre. In front of the church, the monument to Saint Laurent Imbert, a martyred bishop in Korea canonised in Seoul in 1984, recalls the child of the Labory farm. On Easter Monday, the blessing of the horses; in late August, the village fête on the plain.
Nature stays close: the Arbois plateau, a Natura 2000 site, unfolds its stacked plateaus and its views of the Sainte-Victoire and the Alpilles, and the commune has several riding centres. The old village of Cabriès, on its rocky peak, is four kilometres away; Aix and Marseille are each less than twenty kilometres from the commune, and the Plan de Campagne retail zone, one third of it in Cabriès, covers the rest.
In Calas, a house is kept and handed down when it combines what cannot be reproduced: a well-exposed plot, a quiet street, the TGV station, Aix and Marseille within reach. The village has grown a great deal since the sixties, and large free plots are becoming scarce. It remains to check this property by property: flood zone and clay on the plain, estate rules, quality of construction, before paying the price of the address.
Calas lends itself to a practical second home rather than a holiday address: a village that lives all year, a few kilometres from the TGV station and less than twenty from the airport. A villa in the Domaine de Calas or Le Gay is simple to close and watch over; in old Calas, a village house puts shops and market on foot. Allow for garden upkeep and brush clearance.
Calas lives all year round: two schools, a secondary school, shops, a market, and Aix and Marseille each less than twenty kilometres from the commune. Families look for the villa with a garden, in the Domaine de Calas or Le Gay, working people for the D9, the A51 and the TGV station, which puts Paris about three hours away. The real criterion is the daily journey, to be tested at rush hour.
Marseille-Provence airport, at Marignane, is less than twenty kilometres away by the D9, a dual carriageway since 2020, which also serves the Aix-en-Provence TGV station, a few kilometres west of the village: Paris is about three hours away by direct TGV, and Lyon and the Côte d’Azur are served. The A51, via the Les Milles exit nine kilometres away, leads to Aix and Marseille. Day to day, a car remains necessary, even though a coach line links Calas to Aix.
The international community in Calas. Calas is not an international enclave: it is a Provençal village where people live as families, between Aix, its universities and schools, and Marseille. For a buyer purchasing from abroad, the advantage is simplicity: TGV station and airport within reach, a house that is easy to close, services open all year round. France imposes no condition of nationality or residence on the buyer.
When to visit, when to buy? The Calas market follows the calendar of families: searches pick up in spring, to move in before the school year, then resume in the autumn. Summer, hot and dry, slows viewings without stopping sales; winter shows the mistral, the true calm of the streets and the state of the land after rain. For a buyer at a distance, the brief is set in winter, the video pre-viewings follow in spring, and the trip for the decisive viewings is planned before summer or in September.
Because the local market has its own rules. Calas is a village of Cabriès, not a municipality: planning rules and sales are read at the scale of Cabriès. 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, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026), the median price in Calas stands at €5,600/m² for a house. Across the sectors of the survey, the median ranges from €2,900/m² (Vitrolles) to €5,100/m² (Bouc-Bel-Air). These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 4 rooms traded at a median of €5,700/m², on a median surface of 85 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, October 2026 release, 12 months to end of June 2026). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €485,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
A village: Calas belongs to the commune of Cabriès, at the centre of its territory, four kilometres from the old village perched on its rocky peak. It has its own town-hall annex, post office, schools, secondary school and market, but planning and sales are read at the scale of Cabriès.
The land first: the flood zone along the Grand Vallat, the clay of the plain, brush clearance on the edge of the hills. Then the estate’s rulebook, noise from the main roads and the quality of construction. Home Select has these points checked on documents, before any offer.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 109 sales were recorded in Calas: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for houses is up +16% since June 2022, +3% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Calas 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 Calas, the monitoring starts with two sectors: Old Calas and the church, then La Trébillane. That is often where the unfindable property is.
It depends on use. For short stays, a house in old Calas puts shops, post office and market on foot, and is simple to close. For summer with the family, a villa in the Domaine de Calas or Le Gay offers a garden and calm, a few kilometres from the TGV station. Either way, Calas remains a village that lives all year: allow for garden upkeep, brush clearance and someone to watch over the house while you are away.
Home Select, a property finder in Calas, 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 by TGV or via Marseille-Provence airport; Home Select then secures the purchase and coordinates the notaire.
No: as Calas is not a municipality, the sales published by the tax authorities (DVF) are recorded here at the scale of Cabriès, which brings together the old village, Calas and their quarters. The figures on this page therefore cover the whole commune. For a given property, Home Select tests the asking price against the closest comparable sales, same area, same type of house, same plot size, rather than against an average.
Very close: the Aix-en-Provence TGV station, opened in 2001 on the Arbois plateau, lies half within the commune of Cabriès, a few kilometres west of the village. Calas has two interchanges on the D9, a dual carriageway since 2020, which leads there and then on to Marignane and Marseille-Provence airport. Paris is about three hours away by direct TGV; Lyon and the Côte d’Azur are served too.
It depends on the plot: zoning under the local urban plan, the footprint already built, the estate rules, the Grand Vallat flood zone, fire risk on the edge of the hills. An extension, a pool or a plot division is checked before the offer, with a planning certificate if needed, never after signing. Have the works costed by a professional before committing, too.
The market follows the rhythm of families: searches pick up in spring, to move in before the school year, then resume in the autumn. Summer, hot and dry, shows the garden and the real shade; winter shows the mistral and the true calm of the streets. 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 Calas, 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 Calas, 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 Calas. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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