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Annecy · Second home
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, sets out the rules of a second home in Annecy: the lake as the subject, the shores and their exposures, the life of the property between stays, the mountains twenty minutes away. The guide to a pied-à-terre that lives all four seasons, not only summer.
Updated on 19 October 2026
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01Second home
The lake is the market: the eastern shore, from Veyrier to Menthon and Talloires, forms the summit of French lakeshore addresses, and waterside homes almost never appear in listings. The town offers the pragmatic alternative: the character of old Annecy, the family addresses of Annecy-le-Vieux, the lake on foot.
Unlike ski resorts, Annecy lives and trades year-round: a second home finds buyers in every season, and the town stays lived-in out of season, carried by local jobs and Geneva’s proximity.
Rhône-Alpes - Annecy - The boats and bell towers of old Annecy
02Second home
Annecy lends itself to the four-season second home: the lake in summer, the mountains less than an hour away, the calm of the late season. The real question is the time between stays: who maintains, who watches, who clears the shore access in February?
Home Select’s finders build this life of the property into the selection: exposure, access, real charges, distance to amenities. The right Annecy pied-à-terre is the one whose logic of absence was read before the offer.
East shore for the summit, west shore for the evening: two exposures, two markets, access to check.
Old Annecy and l’Impérial: the lake on foot, the simplest remote management.
The lake in summer, the mountains within the hour: a usage that does not stop with the season.
03Second home
Annecy lives and trades year-round, which makes it a particularly fluid market: spring, March to June, and the September rentrée are the densest windows. For a remote buyer, the winter brief prepares the spring shortlist, with a targeted trip. For the taxation of your country of residence, your notary and a tax adviser take over.
A buyer’s agent answers within one working day. A first confidential conversation, with no commitment.
On the ground
On this market, a share of the sought-after properties sells before publication, between families and through notaires and local networks. Home Select receives more than 100 off-market properties every day from its network of 15,000 partners.
Every lead is verified and priced for you before you travel, on file then on a video viewing: you view only the shortlisted properties, your decisive viewings grouped into a single trip. Home Select then defends your offer, with a complete file and the actual sales of the area in hand.
Surveys, co-ownership rules, easements, local building specifics: every document is checked before you commit.
Both are billed only if the property is found and the purchase completed.
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 offerIn the same dossier
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By usage: the eastern shore for the summit of lakeshore addresses, the western shore for evening views, old Annecy for the lake on foot and simple management. A house with direct access to the lake is most often sold without advertising, through notaries and word of mouth: only continuous monitoring lets you see it go by.
By choosing it for that: the apartment in old Annecy or l’Impérial offers the simplest remote management, the shore house asks for checked access, upkeep and someone to clear the snow in February. Home Select builds this logic of absence into the selection: exposure, access, real charges, distance to amenities.
Yes, and that is its singularity: the lake in summer, the mountains within the hour, a town that lives all four seasons. Unlike resorts, one comes in February as in July, which supports both usage and resale.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Annecy, 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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