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Home Select searches, visits and negotiates for you in Trets. 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 Trets since 2011, searches for town houses, villas and estates solely on the buyer’s behalf, from the medieval centre and its ramparts to the Arc wine plain and the slopes of Mont Olympe. 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.
At the heart of the upper Arc valley, between the Sainte-Victoire to the north and the Olympe and Regagnas hills to the south, Trets is the valley’s main town: a medieval centre ringed by ramparts, a castle, a Romanesque church, a market every Wednesday. Around it lie the vine plain, the slopes of Mont Olympe and the hamlet of Kirbon; to the east, the Var begins. Value rests on the land, the view and the calm, more than on the address alone.
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 Trets.
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 Trets 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 Trets.
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 Trets, 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 Trets 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 medieval centre, around the listed church of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth and the registered manor house, façades, joinery and roofs fall under the Architecte des Bâtiments de France. Before the offer, have the works costed within these rules: the gap with an unrestricted renovation can reshape the budget.
On the slopes of Mont Olympe as towards Kirbon and the Regagnas, houses border garrigue and pines. In exposed zones, brush clearance is mandatory, generally over 50 m around buildings: ask about the real condition of the land and emergency access, and have the clearing work costed before the offer.
On the Arc plain, an estate or an isolated house is judged by its water and by what the planning rules allow: an extension, a pool, a new use for a farm building. Ask whether the property has a borehole, a basin or a connection to the Canal de Provence network, and the easements that go with it.
From your brief to the handover of the keys: what Home Select does for you in Trets, 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 Trets 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 Trets.
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, 137 sales were recorded in Trets: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses.
The median for houses is up +2% since June 2022, +2% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
Sales range from €1,600/m² to €5,000/m²: address and condition make the price.
Trets reads as two markets. In town, around the medieval centre, the town house and the older apartment, within walking distance of the market, schools and shops; in the countryside, the villa, the estate and the house with land, from the Arc wine plain to the slopes of Mont Olympe and the hamlet of Kirbon. Properties of character are rare on both sides, and the best-priced often change hands before any listing.
Value turns on what a listing leaves out: in town, the condition of the building, the light in the lanes, parking and the opinion of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France around protected monuments; in the countryside, the exposure and the view of the Sainte-Victoire, the slope and access, water, agricultural zoning, brush clearance on the edge of the hills. Two neighbouring houses may have nothing in common.
Trets is compared within the same search as Peynier, Rousset, Pourrières or Fuveau. Home Select runs that 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 tested against comparable DVF sales, then negotiated, 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 | €4,100/m² | 125 |
| 2023 | €4,300/m² | 78 |
| 2024 | €4,200/m² | 85 |
| 2025 | €4,100/m² | 93 |
| 2026 | €4,200/m² | 89 |
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: Trets trades in line with 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 14th-century ramparts to the slopes of Mont Olympe, Trets moves from the town house to the estate on the plain and the hamlet house.
Within the 14th-century walls, of which four towers and the Saint-Jean and Pourrières gateways remain: the feudal castle, the listed church of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, the Romanesque manor house of the former Jewish quarter, place Pailheret. Here, façades and roofs often go through the Architecte des Bâtiments de France.
East of the centre, the road to Pourrières heads for the Var across the plain where Marius defeated the Teutons. In the Sainte-Catherine quarter stands a ruined Romanesque chapel, privately owned. Houses with land and properties among the crops: access, road noise and zoning are checked before the offer.
To the south, the slopes of Mont Olympe, with the Canal de Provence running at their foot. On the Saint-Michel hill stood the first village, around an 11th-century castrum abandoned at the end of the Middle Ages. Houses gain calm here and, depending on exposure, a view of the Sainte-Victoire; brush clearance, slope and access are to audit.
To the north, the plain crossed by the Arc, within the Côtes-de-Provence Sainte-Victoire area: vines, estates and isolated houses among the crops, facing the mountain. From the Neolithic to the Roman villae, the plain has long been settled. Value rests on the land, water and agricultural zoning, which decides what a property allows.
On the Regagnas side, the hamlet of Kirbon, where paths start towards the Saint-Jean-du-Puy hermitage, on its 658 m hill and a place of pilgrimage every 1 May, and towards the ridge of the massif. A rural sector, away from the town: access, water, non-collective drainage and brush clearance are checked on documents, before the offer.
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Trets at a glance
The centre is lived on foot: the Wednesday morning market, the farmers’ market on Saturdays from April to September, place Pailheret, the old market square, with its corbelled house and houses built over arches that form porches, and the church of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth with its marble altarpiece carved by Christophe Veyrier, a son of Trets. The town hall occupies the former Benedictine monastery, the media library the old mine building.
The year follows its calendar: the spring fair in mid-March, the pilgrimage to Saint-Jean-du-Puy on 1 May, the Saint-Jean bonfire on 23 June, the Saint-Éloi cavalcade on 14 July, the Nocturnes Sainte-Victoire festival, the gastronomy fair in early September. In between, the Gardi sports complex, the intercommunal pool open in summer, riding centres and the Regagnas trails, facing the Sainte-Victoire.
In Trets, a property is kept and passed on when it rests on what cannot be reproduced: an old town house within the medieval walls, an estate on the Arc plain facing the Sainte-Victoire, a house on the slopes of Mont Olympe with its view. Natural hills and farmland are framed by planning rules, so these locations do not multiply. What remains is to check it property by property: protected monuments in the centre, water and zoning on the plain, brush clearance on the slopes.
The centre for a town house simple to close, with the market on foot; the Arc plain for an estate to host summer guests; the slopes of Mont Olympe and Kirbon for the view and calm. Marseille-Provence airport is some fifty kilometres away. Before the offer, count the upkeep of a house left closed: garden, brush clearance, surveillance.
Trets lives all year, with its schools up to collège, shops, walk-in medical practice and sports complex; Aix-en-Provence is about 25 minutes away, Marseille 45. The business parks of Rousset and Peynier are next door. Families look for the house with a garden on the slopes or the plain, working couples for a town house with everything on foot; the real criterion remains the daily journey.
Marseille-Provence airport lies some fifty kilometres from Trets by road, and the Aix-en-Provence TGV station about forty, with Paris around three hours away by train. Aix-en-Provence is about 25 minutes by car, Marseille 45; the A8 motorway, which runs along the Arc valley, heads west to Aix and east to the Var and Nice. Once in Trets, the centre is lived on foot; the plain, the slopes and Kirbon call for a car.
The international community in Trets. Home Select counts 50% of expatriate or international clients, and Trets answers a precise wish: a small Provençal town that lives all year, between Aix, Marseille and the Var. For a non-resident buyer, the difficulty is not the welcome but managing from afar: a town house is simple to close, an estate or a villa on the slopes calls for upkeep and brush clearance. France imposes no condition of nationality or residence on a buyer.
When to visit, when to buy? The Trets market is worked in spring and autumn, when gardens and vines read best. Summer is hot and dry, and access to the department’s forest massifs is regulated according to fire risk. Winter shows Trets as it lives all year. 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 medieval centre, nearby protected monuments put façades and roofs under the Architecte des Bâtiments de France. 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 Trets stands at €3,300/m² for an apartment and €4,200/m² for a house. The highest-priced sector in the survey: Fuveau, €4,600/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, 3 rooms traded at a median of €3,500/m², on a median surface of 60 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 €210,000; condition, floor and address then make the rest of the price.
The centre to live on foot, with the market, schools and shops, in a town house or an older apartment. The Arc plain for an estate or a house among the vines. The Mont Olympe foothills for the view of the Sainte-Victoire, Kirbon for calm. The right choice follows daily use.
The structure first: old walls, roof timbers, party walls, damp at street level. Then the co-ownership, if there is one: works voted, common parts. Around the listed church of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, façade and roof works go through the Architecte des Bâtiments de France: have them costed before the offer.
Over the 12 months to end of June 2026, 137 sales were recorded in Trets: enough to choose from, never enough for the finest addresses. The median for houses is up +2% since June 2022, +2% in the last year alone: the trend holds, and sellers know it.
The calendar depends on how rare the target property is in Trets 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 Trets, the monitoring starts with two sectors: the medieval centre and the ramparts, then Sainte-Catherine and the road to Pourrières. That is often where the unfindable property is.
It depends on use. For short stays, a town house in the centre, simple to close, with the market and shops on foot. To host the family in summer, an estate or a house on the Arc plain, among the vines. For the view and calm, the slopes of Mont Olympe or the hamlet of Kirbon. Either way, count the upkeep of a house left closed: garden, brush clearance, surveillance.
Home Select, a property finder in Trets, 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 the Aix-en-Provence TGV station; Home Select then secures the purchase and coordinates the notaire.
Yes: Trets is a small town that lives all year, with three nursery schools, four primary schools and the Les Hauts-de-l’Arc collège, shops in the centre, a walk-in medical practice open seven days a week and the Gardi sports complex. Aix-en-Provence is about 25 minutes away, Marseille 45. Families look for the house with a garden on the slopes or on the plain; the real criterion remains the daily journey.
Yes. Part of the estates, houses of character and fine town houses sells without a listing, between owners, notaires and professionals. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day through its network of 15,000 partners and monitors 1,700 listing sites: in Trets, the search cross-checks both sources, then every lead is qualified on documents before it is presented to you.
Fire first: in exposed zones, brush clearance is mandatory, generally over 50 m around buildings, and falls to the owner. Then slope and access, including for emergency services, non-collective drainage, inspected by the SPANC, and how rainwater runs across the plot. The diagnostics, paid for by the seller, and the risk report complete the file; Home Select has them read before any offer.
Spring and autumn are the best seasons to view: good light, gardens easy to read, vines in leaf or at harvest. Summer is hot and dry, and access to the department’s forest massifs is then regulated according to fire risk. Winter, calm, shows the town as it lives all year. 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 Trets, 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 Trets, 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 Trets. Many projects play out over two or three towns, and the brief allows for it from the first conversation.
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