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Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you in Rousset. 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 Rousset founded in 2011, searches solely on the buyer’s behalf for village houses, villas and wine properties, from the old village to the Sainte-Victoire foothills and the Arc plain. It gives its clients access to off-market properties, those that never reach a listing, with fees 100% on success: nothing is due before completion.
Set against the foothills of the Cengle plateau, along the southern flank of the Sainte-Victoire, Rousset looks out over a landscape of vines and olive trees that runs down to the Arc, sixteen kilometres from Aix-en-Provence. The old village, the cooperative winery of the Saint-Joseph quarter and the former Favary estate, given to the abbey of Saint-Victor in 1050, tell its story. Here, value rests on the view of the mountain, the land, the calm and the distance from the main roads.
Home Select in figures
A property finder works for the buyer, and for the buyer alone. Here is what Home Select changes, concretely, for your purchase in Rousset.
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 Rousset 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 Rousset.
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 Rousset, 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 Rousset 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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In the Sainte-Victoire foothills as on the edge of the garrigue, brush clearance is a legal obligation, generally over 50 m around buildings in zones exposed to forest fire. The neighbouring massif suffered a major fire in 1989. Have the clearing work costed before the offer, not after signing.
A property with vines is read like a farm: agricultural zoning in the planning scheme, rural leases in force, the appellation of each plot, any commitment to the cooperative winery. Ask for these documents before the offer: they tell you what you will be able to do with the land, and what you will have to respect.
Between the Route Nationale 7, the A8 and the business park, noise and traffic vary from one address to the next, and the Arc and the Aigue-Vive call for a reading of the risk statement. Have the video pre-viewing filmed with windows open, at different times of day, and check whether the plot lies in a flood zone.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Rousset, 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 Rousset 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 Rousset.
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, 76 sales were recorded in Rousset: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for houses is up +3% since June 2022, +11% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Sales range from €2,400/m² to €4,900/m²: address and condition make the price.
Rousset lives on several markets side by side. The old village and its surroundings offer village houses, houses with gardens and apartments, for year-round life in a well-equipped small town. Towards the foothills and among the vines, it is villas and properties with land, scarcer, whose value depends on the view of the Sainte-Victoire and on calm. Wine estates form a third market, a narrow one, dealt between families and connoisseurs.
Value turns on what a listing leaves out: an open view of the mountain rather than a glimpse, the exposure, the quality of the land, the distance from the A8, the Route Nationale 7 and the business park, calm on summer evenings. The finest houses in the foothills and the wine properties rarely change hands, and some are passed on without a listing, through the network of Pays d’Aix professionals.
The rest is checked on documents: agricultural zoning and the status of the vines, water and drainage, brush clearance on the edge of the garrigue, flood risk near the Arc and the Aigue-Vive. 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, 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 | €4,300/m² | 39 |
| 2023 | €4,900/m² | 37 |
| 2024 | €4,500/m² | 28 |
| 2025 | €4,000/m² | 25 |
| 2026 | €4,400/m² | 46 |
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: Rousset trades 33% 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 old village to the Favary estate, from the Sainte-Victoire foothills to the Arc plain: Rousset is chosen by view and by use.
In the Middle Ages, the hamlets gathered behind walls, at the foot of a castle whose foundations alone remain. The town hall square, born of the field sold by the farmer Paul Borde, keeps his statue; the church of the Immaculate Conception raises its two bell towers. Houses with limited floor space, life on foot, concerts under the plane trees.
This is the quarter of the cooperative winery, built in 1919 by the contractor Mistre to plans by the architect Collomp, whose warehouse, vats and weighbridge are recorded in the general inventory of cultural heritage. The winery still makes wine: its activity, harvest included, is part of the setting and is weighed up before the offer.
Given in 1050 by the viscount of Marseille to the abbey of Saint-Victor, the Favary estate yielded in 1889 a Roman milestone from the year 146, seven Roman miles from Aix. The commune’s vineyard, in Côtes de Provence and Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire, does the rest: a market of estates and properties with land, rare and discreet.
To the north, the commune rests against the foothills of the Cengle plateau, at the foot of the southern flank of the Sainte-Victoire, where the Aigue-Vive comes down. Villas and properties here seek the view of the mountain, calm and land. To check before any offer: brush clearance, emergency access, drainage and what the planning scheme allows.
Below the village, vines and olive trees run down to the bank of the Arc. It is the old corridor of the Roman road, today that of the Route Nationale 7 and the A8, beyond which the business park spreads. Space is easier to find here, but noise, traffic and flood risk are checked before the offer.
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Rousset at a glance
Rousset lives all year, around the square for which the farmer Paul Borde sold his field and where his statue stands, the work of Sextius Ferrat. The calendar follows the village festivals: Saint John’s fires, the Fête de la Musique, the feast of Saint-Privat, concerts under the plane trees, Christmas lights. The chapel of Saint-Privat, recorded since 1079 and rebuilt in the 12th century, keeps its Romanesque bell-gabled façade; the church of the Immaculate Conception is 19th-century.
Daily life is that of a well-equipped small town: two crèches, nursery and primary schools, the Jean-Zay collège, doctors, a pharmacy and many sports clubs; the nearest lycée is in Aix. To the north, the Cengle and the Sainte-Victoire draw walkers and mountain bikers, and the grape harvest livens up the end of summer. Two bus lines link the commune to Aix, Marseille and Trets, and the A8 puts Aix within reach. Rousset is twinned with Kirkop, in Malta, and Larciano, in Italy.
In Rousset, a property is kept and passed on when it brings together what cannot be reproduced: an open view of the Sainte-Victoire, appellation land, a quiet plot away from the main roads. Farmland, which covers most of the commune, the neighbouring massif and planning rules limit what can still be built. What remains is to check it property by property: the status of the vines, water, brush clearance, distance from the A8 and the business park.
In Rousset, a second home is a choice between three lives: a house in the old village, closed in a few minutes, a villa in the foothills for summer with the family, a property among the vines for entertaining. The A8 and the Route Nationale 7 put the house within reach of Aix and Marseille for short stays. Before the offer, count the upkeep of a closed house: garden, pool, brush clearance.
Rousset lives all year: crèches, schools, the Jean-Zay collège, doctors and a pharmacy, village festivals and sports clubs, with Aix sixteen kilometres away and two bus lines to Aix, Marseille and Trets. Families look for a house with a garden near the old village, or more space in the foothills and among the vines. The real criterion is the daily journey: judge it at rush hour, on the Route Nationale 7 as on the A8.
Rousset lies sixteen kilometres from Aix-en-Provence and 46 km from Marseille. The A8 and the Route Nationale 7 cross the commune; the nearest interchange is a few kilometres away, in neighbouring Châteauneuf-le-Rouge. From abroad, you arrive through Marseille-Provence airport, about forty minutes away by motorway, or Aix-en-Provence TGV station, about half an hour away, outside rush hour. Once there, a car is a must; bus lines link the commune to Aix, Marseille and Trets.
The international community in Rousset. Rousset is twinned with Kirkop, in Malta, and Larciano, in Italy, and the Pays d’Aix has long welcomed an international clientele, drawn by Aix and the Sainte-Victoire. For a non-resident buyer, a well-equipped small town that lives all year makes managing a house from afar simpler; a property among the vines asks more: land, upkeep, brush clearance. France imposes no condition of nationality or residence on a buyer.
When to visit, when to buy? The Pays d’Aix market picks up in spring, then after the summer. In summer, heat and fire risk complicate viewings in the foothills, with access to the massif regulated from 1 June to 30 September, and the harvest keeps the estates busy at the end of summer. Winter shows the open view and a house’s real exposure. 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. In the Sainte-Victoire foothills, on the edge of the garrigue, fire risk makes the mandatory brush clearance a point to audit. 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 Rousset stands at €4,400/m² for an apartment and €4,400/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in the survey: Aix-en-Provence, €4,900/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 €4,400/m², on a median surface of 90 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 €396,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
The old village for life on foot: village houses, the town hall square, concerts under the plane trees, limited floor space. The foothills for space: villas and properties in the north of the commune, a view of the Sainte-Victoire depending on exposure, brush clearance to audit. The right choice follows how you live.
Yes: the search follows the brief, not municipal boundaries. Châteauneuf-le-Rouge, Fuveau, Peynier and Trets have their own pages, and many buyers compare these communes of the Arc valley within a single search, at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 76 sales were recorded in Rousset: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for houses is up +3% since June 2022, +11% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Rousset 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 Rousset, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the old village, then Saint-Joseph. That is often where the unfindable property is.
It depends on use. For short stays, a house in the old village is simple to close and puts the square and the festivals on foot. For summer with the family, a villa in the foothills, with the view of the Sainte-Victoire and a garden to maintain. For entertaining, a property among the vines or on the Arc plain, with its land. Either way, count the real upkeep of a house closed for part of the year.
Home Select, a property finder in Rousset, 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.
It has been part of the commune for more than sixty years: set on the other side of the A8, which separates it from the village, it also extends into Peynier and Fuveau. For a buyer, it is a feature of the area rather than a criterion: rush-hour traffic, views and noise depending on the address. Depending on the location, it is visible or out of sight; this is checked in the video pre-viewing, address by address.
Yes: Rousset has two crèches, a nursery school, a primary school and the Jean-Zay collège; the nearest lycée is the Lycée Émile-Zola, in Aix-en-Provence. Doctors, a pharmacy and sports clubs complete daily life, and two bus lines link the commune to Aix, Marseille and Trets. The choice is between the old village, with the essentials on foot, and a more isolated house among the vines or in the foothills.
A vineyard is not a garden: agricultural zoning, rural leases in force, the appellation of the plots and any commitment to the cooperative winery are read before the offer. Water, off-mains drainage, inspected by the SPANC, and brush clearance on the edge of the garrigue complete the file. Home Select has these points checked on documents; any works should be costed before the offer.
The Pays d’Aix market picks up in spring and after the summer. In summer, heat and fire risk complicate viewings in the foothills, and the harvest keeps the estates busy at the end of summer. Winter shows a house’s real exposure and the open view of the mountain. The right method: set the brief in winter, run the video pre-viewings in spring, then come for the decisive viewings.
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 Rousset, 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 Rousset, 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 Rousset. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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