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Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you in Carnoux-en-Provence. 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 Carnoux-en-Provence founded in 2011, seeks villas and apartments exclusively on the buyer’s behalf, from the Parc Tony Garnier to the heights of Mont Fleuri, between Aubagne and Cassis. 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.
Carnoux-en-Provence is a town born in a single stride: in 1957, people repatriated from Morocco bought a stretch of garrigue in Roquefort-la-Bédoule to build their town, which became a municipality in 1966, between Aubagne and Cassis. Villa estates and apartment buildings stretch along a valley in the hills, most homes on its well-exposed flank. Here, value rests on exposure, calm, the plot and the quality of construction from the late fifties to the present day.
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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 Carnoux-en-Provence.
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 Carnoux-en-Provence 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 Carnoux-en-Provence.
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 Carnoux-en-Provence, 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 Carnoux-en-Provence 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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Some of Carnoux’s villas date from the first estates, built from 1958 onwards. Ask for the year of construction, the permits for extensions, the energy performance certificate and, for a building permit issued before July 1997, the asbestos survey. Have insulation, windows and wiring costed before the offer.
The D41E is the only road linking Carnoux to Cassis and the A50 motorway, and the routes to Marseille are regularly congested at rush hour. Have the real travel times to school and work measured, at the hours you will make them, before you grow attached to an address.
Near the pines of the Languilard plateau or the ridges, brush clearance is a legal obligation, generally over 50 m around buildings in zones exposed to forest fire. Ask about the real condition of the land and its upkeep, have the surroundings filmed in the video pre-viewing and the clearing costed before the offer.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Carnoux-en-Provence, 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 Carnoux-en-Provence 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 Carnoux-en-Provence.
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.
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Page updated on 25 October 2026, reviewed by Jean Mascla, founder of Home Select
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 74 sales were recorded in Carnoux-en-Provence: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for houses is up +7% since June 2022, +8% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Sales range from €2,300/m² to €4,300/m²: address and condition make the price.
Carnoux lives on two markets: the villa and the apartment. Villas range from the first estates, built from 1958 onwards, to recent houses, with gardens and, for some, a pool; apartments, in the buildings of the new town, offer a simpler way into the commune. Both are sorted address by address: exposure, view, overlooking and calm are not worth the same from one street to the next.
Value turns on what a listing leaves out: the exposure, the slope and access of the plot, the real view over the valley or the hills, the distance to the D41E and its traffic, the quality of a house from the town’s early days or a more recent one. Houses from the first decades call for a careful reading: insulation, windows, wiring, compliance of extensions. The energy performance certificate is read before the offer, never after.
Demand comes from families of the Aubagne and Marseille area, from buyers who want Cassis and the sea a few kilometres away in a more residential town, and from retirees looking for calm. 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, 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 | 57 |
| 2023 | €5,700/m² | 34 |
| 2024 | €5,100/m² | 32 |
| 2025 | €4,900/m² | 31 |
| 2026 | €5,300/m² | 41 |
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: Carnoux-en-Provence trades 6% above its department median (€3,300/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 Parc Tony Garnier to the pines of Languilard, Carnoux moves from the apartment near the shops to the villa on the well-exposed flank.
The shopping heart of the new town, laid out by the architect Jean Rozan, and the Parc Tony Garnier, once the park of the estate where the Lyon urban planner spent his retirement. Apartments in the new town’s buildings and houses near the shops: the most practical address, where overlooking, noise and parking make the difference.
Before the town, the valley held two farms and a bastide: La Crémaillère, on the estate where Tony Garnier spent his retirement, later an inn and then a hotel, where the founders’ cooperative set up its offices. Carnoux’s urban walking route starts here. An area read address by address: age of the building, overlooking, access.
Carnoux stretches along a valley running from south-west to north-east, and most of its homes occupy the north-west flank, which is well exposed. Houses and villas from every period of the town rise in tiers there; slope, access, parking and the view over the valley separate two neighbouring addresses, to be checked on documents and on video.
The Mont Fleuri ridge overlooks Carnoux: a viewpoint over the town and the great cross facing Sidi-Ferruch, in Algeria, up to which the procession of Notre-Dame-d’Afrique climbs every 15 August. Houses in the area, including those on the Avenue du Mont Fleuri, are judged by the real view, the slope and brush clearance, on documents.
To the north, the town backs onto the limestone plateau of Languilard: pines, garrigue, a belvedere and walking trails leaving from Carnoux. Addresses on its edge gain calm and the hillside close at hand; they also have to reckon with fire risk and the mandatory brush clearance, to be audited before the offer.
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Carnoux-en-Provence at a glance
Carnoux is lived as a town on a human scale, born of a singular story: that of the people repatriated from Morocco, joined from 1962 by those from Algeria. In the church of Notre-Dame-d’Afrique, the Black Madonna, a replica of the one in Algiers, is carried in procession every 15 August up to the cross that overlooks the town, facing Sidi-Ferruch. The Parc Tony Garnier keeps the memory of the Lyon urban planner who spent his retirement on this estate.
Around it, the hills extend the Saint-Cyr massif: to the north, the Languilard plateau and its belvedere, elsewhere trails that lead through the hills to the calanques. Cassis, its harbour and its station are a few kilometres away by the D41E, Aubagne and the A50 in the other direction; Marseille is sixteen kilometres away over the Col de la Gineste. The Carpiagne camp, base of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment, extends partly into the commune.
In Carnoux, a house is kept and handed down when it combines what cannot be reproduced: the well-exposed flank of the valley, a quiet street, the hillside nearby, Cassis and the sea a few kilometres away. The commune is small and already largely built up, so free plots are scarce. It remains to check this property by property: age and quality of the building, slope and access, brush clearance on the edge, before paying the price of the address.
Carnoux lends itself to a family second home: a town that lives all year, Cassis and the sea a few kilometres away, Marseille and the airport within reach. An apartment in the centre is simple to close and watch over; a villa calls for garden upkeep, care of any pool and brush clearance, to be arranged before buying.
Carnoux lives all year round, with its schools, shops and services, between Aubagne and Cassis. Families look for the villa with a garden on the well-exposed flank of the valley, working people for the A50, which puts central Marseille twenty kilometres away. The real criterion is the daily journey on the D41E, the only road link to the neighbouring communes, to be tested at rush hour.
Marseille-Provence airport is about fifty kilometres away by motorway, roughly three quarters of an hour outside rush hour. Marseille-Saint-Charles station, in the centre of Marseille some twenty kilometres away, puts Paris just over three hours away by TGV; Cassis station, on the Marseille to Toulon line, is three kilometres from the town’s southern exit. The D41E joins the A50 to the north, towards Marseille and Toulon, and coaches link Carnoux to Cassis, Aubagne and Marseille.
The international community in Carnoux-en-Provence. Carnoux is not an international holiday address: it is a residential town next to Cassis, where people live all year round. For a buyer purchasing from abroad, that is the advantage: houses and apartments more recent than in the old villages, the sea and Marseille within reach, services open all year. France imposes no condition of nationality or residence on the buyer.
When to visit, when to buy? The Carnoux 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, slows viewings and draws crowds towards Cassis and the nearby calanques; winter shows the true calm of the streets and the exposure to the low sun. 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. A single road, the D41E, links Carnoux to Cassis and the A50: journeys are tested at rush hour. 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 Carnoux-en-Provence stands at €3,500/m² for an apartment and €5,300/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in the survey: Cassis, €7,000/m² median. 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 €6,000/m², on a median surface of 96 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 €576,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Cassis is a harbour village facing the sea and the calanques. Carnoux, whose southern exit is three kilometres from Cassis station, is a residential town in the hills, born in 1957, with no sea frontage: more recent buildings, year-round neighbourhood life and the sea a few kilometres away.
The age of the building first: some houses date from the town’s early days, and insulation, wiring and extensions need a close reading. Then the slope and access of the plot, brush clearance on the edge of the pines, journeys on the D41E. Home Select has these points checked on documents, before any offer.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 74 sales were recorded in Carnoux-en-Provence: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for houses is up +7% since June 2022, +8% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Carnoux-en-Provence 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 Carnoux-en-Provence, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the centre and the Parc Tony Garnier, then La Crémaillère. That is often where the unfindable property is.
It depends on use. For short stays, an apartment in the centre, near the shops and the Parc Tony Garnier, is simple to close. For summer with the family, a villa on the north-west flank of the valley or on the heights of Mont Fleuri offers a garden and good exposure, with Cassis and the sea a few kilometres away. Either way, allow for garden upkeep, brush clearance and watching over the house when you are away.
Home Select, a property finder in Carnoux-en-Provence, 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 via Marseille-Provence airport or Saint-Charles station; Home Select then secures the purchase and coordinates the notaire.
Because it was born of a project: in 1957, entrepreneurs repatriated from Morocco, led by Émilien Prophète, bought from Tony Garnier’s widow 270 hectares, mostly garrigue, with vines and a bastide, at the place called Les Carnoux, in Roquefort-la-Bédoule. Those repatriated from Algeria joined them from 1962, the architect Jean Rozan drew up the town plan, and the municipality was created in 1966. So there is no old village: most buildings date from the late fifties to the present day.
Yes, although the town is not on the coast: Carnoux’s southern exit is three kilometres from Cassis station, and the harbour of Cassis, gateway to the calanques, is reached by the D41E. Trails also lead through the hills to the calanques. For a villa, closeness to the sea is measured in minutes of real travel, in summer as in winter, rather than in kilometres: have it measured before the offer.
It depends on the plot: zoning under the intercommunal local urban plan, the footprint already built, any estate rules, the slope, fire risk on the edge of the pines. An extension, a pool or an added storey is checked before the offer, with a planning certificate if needed, never after signing. On a house from the town’s early days, also have the upgrade costed by a professional before committing.
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, slows viewings and draws crowds towards Cassis; winter shows the true calm of the streets and the exposure to the low sun. 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 Carnoux-en-Provence, 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 Carnoux-en-Provence, 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 Carnoux-en-Provence. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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