Provence - Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde - Lake Bimont and Mont Sainte-Victoire
Provence - Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde - Lake Bimont and Mont Sainte-Victoire
Provence · Bouches-du-Rhône
Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you in Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde. 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde since 2011, searches for villas and bastides under a mandate from the buyer alone, from Les Bonfillons to Collongue and the Prignon, between forests and the Bimont lake. 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.
A few kilometres east of Aix, north of the Sainte-Victoire, Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde stretches along the RD 10, the old road to Italy, in a valley of hamlets and residential quarters edged by forest. Woods cover two thirds of the municipality, the private Saint-Marc estate takes up about a third of it, and the Bimont lake spreads to the south, at the foot of the mountain. Here, value rests on calm, land and the forest.
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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde.
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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde.
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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde 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 a municipality two-thirds wooded, 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, and have the clearing work costed before the offer, not after signing.
The Sainte-Victoire massif, the dams area and the château site are listed: on a listed site, any change to the state or appearance of the place requires special authorisation. Have what the plot allows checked, extension, pool or annex, before you commit.
A house in the woods is also judged by its track: width and slope of the access, passage for emergency services, easements recorded in the title deed. Check the connection to water and sanitation; if it is non-collective, the SPANC inspection belongs in the file, before the offer.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde.
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 Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade et Peyrolles-en-Provence to Le Tholonet, the median gap reaches +64 %: the neighbourhood prices the property as much as its floor area.
Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde is a small market of houses, narrow by nature: forest covers most of the municipality, the private Saint-Marc estate takes up about a third of it, and the massif, the dams area and the château site are listed. What sells lies in the valley’s residential quarters, from Les Bonfillons to the Prignon: villas in the woods, old bastides, rare hamlet houses.
Value turns on what a listing leaves out: the exposure in an east-west valley, the edge of the forest, the distance from the RD 10, access by municipal roads and tracks, the view of the Sainte-Victoire or the hills. Buyers, Aix families who want the forest on the city’s doorstep, people working in Aix and Marseille, Parisians and foreigners attached to Provence, all look for calm and space.
Then comes the vigilance of a forest municipality: mandatory brush clearance, the fire risk, recalled by the 1989 fire that started here, sanitation, and what the listings allow to be built. 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.
From Les Bonfillons to the Prignon, the quarters line the RD 10, between forests, the Saint-Marc estate and the Bimont lake.
The château plains quarter gathers the town hall, housed in the former presbytery, the church, Romanesque and 17th-century, the school and the Château de Saint-Marc, whose site has been listed since 1969 and whose 18th-century garden is a registered historic monument. Around it lies the private Saint-Marc estate: houses for sale are rare.
In the east of the municipality, on both sides of the RD 10, the hamlet named after the Bonfillon family, three of whose bastides appear on the 1756 map. Inhabited since the Iron Age, it has yielded the remains of a Roman villa near the Infernet. Until the sixties, it was the only hamlet in a municipality of estates.
In the west, north of the RD 10 and up to the Aix boundary, two former lordships, autonomous under the Ancien Régime, whose estates were sold in the twenties. The Prignon, the municipality’s only watercourse, rises in the Collongue quarter, at the Saint-Antoine spring, then joins the Cause. Villas and bastides in a wooded valley.
South of the RD 10, in the east of the municipality, next to the Bimont dam sector, the quarter keeps the name of the old valat de Ginestelle, already on the 1756 map. Like the valley’s other residential quarters, it lives alongside woods, private or municipal. Here, the forest edge, brush clearance and access are checked first.
The Bimont arch dam, in service since 1952, holds a lake at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire, over drowned former localities. The Vauvenargues road runs along the reservoir; a turning leads to the dam, where the Imoucha path begins. The dams area has been listed since 1973: few houses, and nothing changes without special authorisation.
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Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde at a glance
Life in Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde is calm, along the RD 10, the old road to Italy, between Aix and Vauvenargues. The heart of the municipality lies in the château plains: the town hall in the former presbytery, the church, the school, and the Château de Saint-Marc, condemned by the Parlement of Aix in 1592, during the League, with the great garden and its monumental fountain created in the 18th century by the Meyronnets. The Keyrié tower, once a watchtower for Aix, was restored in 2007.
To the south, the Bimont lake spreads at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire: the Vauvenargues road runs along the reservoir, and the Imoucha path leaves from the dam for the mountain. It crosses the private Saint-Marc estate, as does a second waymarked path overlooking the Zola and the Infernet, both open to walkers with the owner’s consent. Access to the massif is restricted in summer because of fire; in winter, the valley regains its calm, and Aix is close by.
In Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, an estate is kept and passed on when it combines what cannot be reproduced: a wooded, well-exposed plot, the calm of a quarter under the trees, the Sainte-Victoire at the end of the road, Aix close by. The forest, the Saint-Marc estate and the listings limit what can still be built, so supply does not multiply. It remains to check this property by property: brush clearance, access, sanitation, the condition of old bastides.
For a second home, Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde offers forest and calm minutes from Aix and its stations. A villa in the wooded quarters can be closed between stays, but needs steady upkeep: garden, pool, brush clearance, supervision in summer. The right balance depends on how many weeks you will really spend there.
Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde is lived in all year, turned towards Aix, its schools, its university and its hospitals; the TGV station and Marseille-Provence airport are reached by car in under an hour, depending on traffic. Families look for a villa with land in the valley’s quarters, from Les Bonfillons to Collongue. The real criterion is the daily journey to Aix along the RD 10.
Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde lies about 6 km east of Aix-en-Provence, on the RD 10, the old road to Italy, which runs on to Vauvenargues. The Aix-en-Provence TGV station, which puts Paris roughly three hours away, is under three quarters of an hour by road depending on traffic, and Marseille-Provence airport under an hour. Once there, a car is essential: the municipality is a valley of hamlets and scattered quarters.
The international community in Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde. Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde is a residential municipality which, since the mid-sixties, has welcomed families from the city, drawn by the countryside on the doorstep of Aix. For a foreign buyer, the difficulty is not the welcome but reading a territory of forests and listed sites. Home Select draws half of its clients from expatriates and international buyers. France imposes no nationality or residence condition on the buyer.
When to visit, when to buy? The Pays d’Aix market wakes in February and gathers pace in spring, then finds a second active window after the summer. Summer slows viewings: heat, fire risk, access to the massif generally restricted from 1 June to 30 September. Winter shows the valley as it is lived in, with its light and its calm. 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. Woods cover two thirds of the municipality: mandatory brush clearance and the risk of fire are points 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.
Both touch the Sainte-Victoire and Aix. Le Tholonet, at the western foot of the massif, has three centres and the Route Cézanne; Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, to the north, is a valley of hamlets and wooded quarters, with the Bimont lake. The choice follows how you live: the view of the mountain, or forest and calm.
Fire first: in exposed zones, brush clearance is mandatory, generally over 50 m around buildings, and falls to the owner; the 1989 fire started in the municipality. Then access, sanitation and what the listings allow. Home Select has these points checked on documents, before any offer.
From Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade et Peyrolles-en-Provence to Le Tholonet, the median gap reaches +64 %: the neighbourhood prices the property as much as its floor area.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the village and the château plains, then Les Bonfillons. That is often where the unfindable property is.
Yes, for those who seek calm rather than bustle. A house in the woods can be closed between stays, but needs steady upkeep: brush clearance up to date, garden, pool, supervision in summer, the season of fire risk. Aix and its two stations are close for short stays. The right balance depends on how many weeks you will really spend there, and on who will look after the house in your absence.
Home Select, a property finder in Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, 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 in the municipality and its neighbours 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.
Because the municipality is first of all a forest: woods cover two thirds of the land, the private Saint-Marc estate takes up about a third, and the massif, the dams area and the château site are listed. Homes are concentrated in the valley’s quarters, where houses rarely change hands. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day from its network: in a market this narrow, that access matters.
The château site has been listed since 1969, the area of the Bimont and Zola dams since 1973, and the Sainte-Victoire massif since 1983, the municipality included. On a listed site, any change to the state or appearance of the place requires special authorisation. Outside these perimeters, the local urban plan sets what can be built. For a villa in the wooded quarters, an extension, a pool or an annex is checked before the offer.
Yes: the great majority of residents live in the valley’s residential quarters, and the municipality’s life looks towards Aix, close by, with its schools, its university and its two stations. Everything is done by car, along the RD 10 towards Aix or Vauvenargues. In return, the forest begins at the end of the garden and the Sainte-Victoire at the end of the road.
The Pays d’Aix market wakes in February and gathers pace in spring, then finds a second active window after the summer. In summer, the heat and the access restrictions on the massif because of fire slow viewings. Winter shows the valley as it is lived in, its woods and its light. 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, 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 Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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