Cassis, Provence
Provence · Bouches-du-Rhône
Sheltered by Cap Canaille and the calanques, Cassis is one of the most closed markets on the French coast: one village, one port, a few hundred fine addresses and a national and international demand that never weakens. Here, most of the sales that matter close without ever appearing in a listing.
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The essentials
Home Select, a property finder in Cassis founded in 2011, searches for houses and villas exclusively on behalf of the buyer, with direct access to off-market properties. In this confidential market, from La Presqu’île to Le Bestouan, most notable sales never appear in a listing. Fees 100% on success, nothing due before completion.
Cassis at a glance
01The market
In 2025, 125 sales were recorded in Cassis: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
After +12% since 2021, the past year pauses (-1%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
Sales range from €4,800/m² to €11,500/m²: address and condition make the price.
Cassis is a market of absolute scarcity: a few hundred sought-after addresses, a classified vineyard bounding the land, coves reachable only on foot or by sea. National and international demand never weakens: any correctly positioned property finds a buyer, and most of the sales that matter never appear in a listing.
Value hangs on details: the real view over the port or the cape (not just “sea”), access to the coves, the rules of private domains, the servitude of the coastal path. Two neighbouring houses of the Presqu’île may not belong to the same world: a market hunted on the ground, through network, not from a portal.
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| Year | Median | Sales counted |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | €6,700/m² | 126 |
| 2022 | €6,900/m² | 118 |
| 2023 | €6,800/m² | 104 |
| 2024 | €7,600/m² | 85 |
| 2025 | €7,500/m² | 95 |
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 | €7,900/m² | 31 m² | €245,000 |
| 2 rooms | €7,500/m² | 48 m² | €360,000 |
| 3 rooms | €7,800/m² | 70 m² | €546,000 |
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 | Impasse des Écoles | 93 m² | €1,600,000 | €17,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Résidence Le Grand Large | 60 m² | €250,000 | €4,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Rue Alexandre Rossat | 50 m² | €270,000 | €5,400/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Le Bregadan | 254 m² | €816,000 | €3,200/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Avenue Émile Bodin | 140 m² | €2,400,000 | €17,100/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Avenue Jacques Garcin | 290 m² | €8,098,000 | €27,900/m² |
| Dec 2025 | Apartment | Quai des Baux | 55 m² | €275,000 | €5,000/m² |
| Dec 2025 | House | Avenue Jacques Garcin | 241 m² | €7,950,000 | €33,000/m² |
Real sales from the vintage, street name without the number. These are registry prices, not asking prices.
The city and its department: Cassis trades 121% above its department median (€3,400/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 Cassis, address by address and condition included, is the first thing Home Select tells you at the first conversation.
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02The neighbourhoods
Cassis fits in the hollow of a single bay: between the quays, the pines and the vines, each address keeps its own light and silence.
A few streets between the Barasse square and the quays: upgraded pastel fishermen houses, apartments with port views, shops and restaurants on foot. Rare in large surfaces, highly contested, often handed down between families.
The tongue of land between the port and Port-Miou, the top of the Cassis market: properties in the pines with bay views, direct water access, domain rules to audit before any offer. Sales are extremely rare and precious.
The Bestouan beach quarter, on the cape road: villas and houses a few steps from the water, the coastal path along the properties. Southern exposure and beach access make the most family-friendly addresses of the village.
Above the village, between AOC vines and hills: bastides with land, contemporary villas overlooking the bay, absolute calm five minutes from the port. A confidential market where farmland and planting rights change everything.
The village and the harbour: a renovated fisherman’s house or a characterful flat, closest to the terraces and the boat trips. For a lively car-free base, even with scarce parking.
The heights and the vineyard: a villa with sea views, garden and pool, quiet and wide open. The choice for privacy and light, with car dependence accepted.
La Presqu’île and Le Bestouan: a rare property geared to swimming, hiking and the national park. A discreet market, where off-market access and command of the protection rules are decisive.
Three buying profiles to place your own in Cassis. Orientation pointers, which your property finder refines with you at the brief.
Hesitating between two neighbourhoods in Cassis, or between an apartment and a house? Home Select compares them for you, sale by sale and on video pre-viewings, before having you travel.
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03Living and buying
Mornings begin on the quai des Baux, when the pointus come in and the fishermen sell their catch straight on the quay. The Provençal market sets up its stalls on place Baragnon, the harbour cafés face the pastel façades, and afternoons drift towards the Bestouan beach or the pine shade of the Presqu’île. In the evening, a white from the appellation, Clos Sainte-Magdeleine or Château de Fontcreuse, goes with sea urchins and the fish of the day.
The seasons set the pace: winter hands the village back to its residents, flat sea and tables of regulars; in spring you walk out to Port-Miou, Port-Pin and En-Vau before the heat; in September the harvest comes down from slopes classified since 1936. The route des Crêtes, cut above Cap Canaille, is best taken at dusk. The station, on the Marseille to Toulon line, keeps the village connected without surrendering it; the TGV and the airport are a short escape away.
Three projects, three markets
Cassis is a market of scarcity: supply is tiny and demand permanent, which protects the value of fine addresses. What holds it here is the location and the view, in the village or on the heights, then what no listing says: access and parking in season, exposure to the mistral, the upkeep of a sloping garden. A house in Cassis is kept for a long time and passed on: it is bought with that long horizon in mind.
This is the primary vocation of the Cassis market: a house in the village or on the heights, used from April to October. What counts is access and parking in season, exposure to the mistral, the upkeep of a sloping garden and winter caretaking. Home Select’s concierge service takes over after the keys, so the house is ready when you arrive.
Living in Cassis year-round means accepting a town that changes rhythm twice a year: summer belongs to visitors, winter to the village. Families weigh the centre, walkable to everything, against the heights, quieter but car-dependent. Marseille and its employment area are half an hour away by road or train.
04From abroad
Cassis is easy to reach from abroad via Marseille Provence airport, about 45 minutes away, which serves the main European cities (London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid, Rome) and the Gulf hubs, with New York one stop away. The SNCF station, perched away from the harbour, puts Marseille twenty minutes away; the Marseille TGV station places Paris around 3 h 20 away and serves Lyon, Brussels and Frankfurt. The final stretch of road is winding and parking is very tight in season: two constraints to build into the viewing schedule rather than discover on arrival.
The international community is well represented, mostly as second-home owners, with British, Northern European and North American buyers. Everyday services exist but cluster around the high season. For a property used part of the year, what matters at purchase is access: a parking space, the real distance to the harbour, how workable the place is off-season. Those are the points Home Select checks before shortlisting a lead.
Activity concentrates between April and September, when the harbour and the Calanques are at peak attendance: fine homes move quickly in spring, and the saturated summer limits viewings as much as parking. Late season, in September and October, opens a quieter second window, more open to negotiation; winter reveals the village’s true face, its slimmed-down services and its silence. For a remote buyer, starting the search in winter, viewing in spring and aiming to sign in autumn remains the safest sequence.
Property finder in Cassis
Everything above, Home Select reads for you. Everything below, its property finders do for you.
A property finder in Cassis 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 Home Select’s 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 Cassis.
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 Cassis, 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, nothing is due until you have bought.
Home Select completes a search in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on average instead of more than 40, and gives 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.
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.
Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties from its network every day.
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.
Home Select arranges only 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.
Home Select negotiates 6% off the asking price on average.
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 Home Select’s checklists.
Every document checked before you commit.
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.
Home Select takes a search from the brief to the authentic deed in 45 days on average.
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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: Home Select secures 6% off the asking price on average.
What negotiation weighs
Home Select is paid 100% on success: nothing is due until you have bought.
On the Presqu’île as on the heights, ask for the domain’s charter before any offer: rights of way, extension bans, appearance rules. Two neighbouring villas can carry very different rights, and the rules cannot be renegotiated after signing.
A large plot promises nothing here: agricultural zones of the appellation, the Littoral law, the edges of the national park. Obtain a planning certificate before pricing in an extension or a pool, and treat the existing building as the essence of the value.
For a villa at Le Bestouan or on the Presqu’île, check the route of the coastal path servitude, the exposure to sea spray and the upkeep a seafront build demands: a façade also reads in winter, in rough weather, not only in July.
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06Off-market properties
A share of the finest sales in Cassis 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.
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 every city (purchase costs, remote search, choosing your finder) are gathered on one page: all the frequently asked questions.
Because the local market has its own rules. An almost non-existent stock: permanent monitoring and off-market make up most opportunities. 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 Cassis stands at €7,500/m² for an apartment and €7,700/m² for a house. Across the sectors of the survey, the median ranges from €2,700/m² (Carnoux-en-Provence et Aubagne) to €5,200/m² (La Ciotat). These medians are market benchmarks, not an appraisal: the address, the floor, the condition and scarcity make the final price.
In 2025, 2 rooms traded at a median of €7,500/m², on a median surface of 48 sqm (DVF / DGFiP via data.gouv.fr, April 2026 release, 2025 sales). A median home of the bracket changes hands around €360,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
Yes, but rarely through listings: these properties circulate between professionals and through direct approach to owners. That is exactly where Home Select hunts.
Yes: La Ciotat, Carnoux, Roquefort-la-Bédoule and the neighbouring coast are part of the perimeter when the project calls for it. Marseille has its own page.
In 2025, 125 sales were recorded in Cassis: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. After +12% since 2021, the past year pauses (-1%): room to negotiate, no reason to worry.
Home Select completes its searches in 45 days on average, with 3 viewings on the client side instead of 40 and about fifteen hours of your time. In Cassis, 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 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 Cassis, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the village and the port, then La Presqu’île. That is often where the unfindable property is.
It depends on the use: the village and the port for a life on foot, at the pace of the quays; Le Bestouan for the beach and the children; the heights for calm, views and vines. The Presqu’île remains the patrimonial address, whenever a sale arises there.
A definitive address: the sea-view house at Le Bestouan, the villa of La Presqu’île between the port and the Port-Miou calanque, or the bastide of the heights among appellation vines. Stock is almost non-existent and private estates supply a fair share of sales: permanent watching and the off-market make most opportunities, far more than listings.
Precise rules: a strict charter, rights of way, colour and upkeep constraints imposed by the estate’s association. They must be read before the offer, not after: some rules (fences, pools, facades) redraw the use and the resale value. Home Select audits the estate’s rules and budget exactly as the property itself.
Only with great difficulty: the appellation vineyard and the protected zones tightly constrain new builds and extensions. That is exactly why quality older stock concentrates all demand: what already exists is fought over, what could be built will not be. The sound move is an acquisition on the existing stock, well chosen and well negotiated.
Three hours of TGV to Toulon, thirty minutes of road, or Marseille airport: Cassis is covered in one full day. Home Select’s work starts earlier: rule out, shortlist, prepare each viewing as the right one. Serious sellers accept video for a first filter, and the decision comes on the second trip.
The old village fabric (Le Mouré, the centre) hides damp and structures to consolidate; estate villas obey their colour and upkeep rules; the vineyard heights ask for terrace and greenery maintenance. The mistral wears southern facades: works are budgeted into the offer, not after the signature.
Home Select, a property finder in Cassis, 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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Provence
One maison, one method, the same fees: the search does not stop at the limits of Cassis. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
Bouches-du-Rhône La Ciotat €5,200/m² The old harbour and the old centre · The seafront and Saint-Jean 
Vaucluse Avignon €2,300/m² Intra-muros: Banasterie and Rocher des Doms · Joseph-Vernet and Les Halles 
Var Bandol €6,300/m² The centre and the port · Capelan and La Madrague Property finder in La Ciotat Property finder in Avignon Property finder in Bandol
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