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Biarritz · Second home
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, sets out the rules of a second home in Biarritz: what the town truly sells, a light and a walking distance to the beach, districts by usage, and a file read before the offer. The guide to a pied-à-terre won by watch.
Updated on 19 October 2026
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01Second home
Biarritz sells above all a light and a walking distance to the beach: neo-Basque villa, Art déco apartment, ocean view. Quality properties leave off-listing, in days, on one of France’s tightest markets, supported by year-round demand that the Basque coast genuinely lives.
For the Basque coast lives year-round, and that is what sets it apart from most shorelines: schools, hospitals, an airport at Anglet and a solid local economy. A second home there is genuinely used, weekends included, not only six summer weeks.
Basque Country - Biarritz - The Port des Pêcheurs
02Second home
On a market where quality properties leave off-listing, in days, the decision is prepared before the property surfaces: district, usage and budget are settled upstream, to be able to offer fast and right.
Home Select’s finders assess the file from the selection onward, with real charges, co-ownership bylaws, technical condition and salt-spray exposure for seafront addresses. The right Basque pied-à-terre is the one whose file was read before the listing, not after.
Impératrice, Les Halles: light and the beach on foot, the simplest remote management.
Côte des Basques or pinewood: view or space, and the upkeep that goes with it.
Anglet, Bidart, Guéthary: space and the corniche, at levels distinct from Biarritz.
03Second home
The Biarritz market has two peaks: spring, April to June, and the September rentrée, when fine properties trade fast. The summer high season slows viewings. For a remote buyer, the winter brief prepares the spring shortlist: the sequence Home Select’s finders hold most often.
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 Impératrice district and Les Halles for town on foot and light, the Côte des Basques for the ocean view, the pinewood of Anglet or Le Braou for space, Bidart and Guéthary for the corniche. Quality properties leave off-listing: watch counts as much as budget.
First, what costs money after the purchase: the co-ownership charges actually paid, the works already voted or to come, the condition of the façade and the joinery, which salt air wears out faster facing the ocean. These checks are done upstream, with the file ready, because in Biarritz a fine apartment can find a buyer before it has even been put online on a portal. Home Select assesses them from the selection onward.
Yes, and that is its strength: the Basque coast lives year-round, schools, hospitals, local economy, an airport at Anglet. Weekends are lived there from October to June, not only in summer, which supports usage and resale alike.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Biarritz, 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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