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Cannes · Second home
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, sets out the rules of a second home in Cannes: districts by usage, the trap of an abundant but uneven supply, and the calendar of a remote purchase. The guide to a pied-à-terre that is truly lived in, with no bad surprise in the file.
Updated on 15 October 2026
A first confidential conversation, with no commitment
01Second home
Two options dominate. The sea-view apartment of La Croisette and La Banane: the beach on foot, the simplest remote management, a liquid market that eases resale. The villa of La Californie or Super Cannes: the garden, the pool, the bay view, and the presence it demands, gardener, watch, year-round upkeep.
Le Suquet and the centre offer a third way: the character pied-à-terre, more affordable, living at the town’s pace. Supply there is abundant, which is a trap: many mediocre properties hide behind flattering listings.
French Riviera - Cannes - La Croisette and the Palais des Festivals
02Second home
Cannes is the Riviera’s most liquid market, and the most seasonal: congresses, festivals and summer set the town’s rhythm. That liquidity attracts supply of very uneven quality: technical condition, charges and co-ownership bylaws vary from one building to the next.
Home Select’s finders sort that supply for you: technical conditions, real charges, co-ownership bylaws, building quality. The right Cannes pied-à-terre is the one whose file was read before the offer, not the one with the prettiest listing.
Croisette, Banane: the addresses foreign buyers know before they even arrive, easy to entrust to a caretaker and to resell when the time comes.
Californie, Super Cannes: garden and view, and the upkeep logistics that go with it.
Suquet, centre: the town on foot, softer levels, a demanding sort on the file.
03Second home
The Cannes market has two sharply marked peaks, set by the events calendar: spring, March to May around the Festival, and the September rentrée. The summer high season slows viewings without stopping transactions. 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: La Croisette and La Banane for the beach on foot and remote management, La Californie and Super Cannes for the villa with view, Le Suquet for character and softer budgets. Supply is abundant but uneven: the technical and regulatory sort counts as much as the district choice.
By choosing it for that: the apartment of La Croisette or La Banane offers the simplest remote management and a liquid market that eases resale; the hill villa asks for a gardener, a watch and year-round upkeep. Home Select builds this logic of absence into the selection, with the technical file and the co-ownership bylaw read before the offer.
The seafront apartment manages from a distance and resells on a liquid market; the hill villa offers garden and view but asks for a gardener and someone on site. Real usage, frequency of stays and logistics tolerance decide: it is the first question Home Select settles.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Cannes, 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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