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Nice · Second home
Home Select, a prestige buyer’s agent, sets out the rules of a second home in Nice: the three criteria that truly decide, view, floor and lift, the districts by usage, and remote management. The guide to a pied-à-terre that locks and reopens without worry.
Updated on 19 October 2026
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01Second home
A Nice pied-à-terre is chosen on three criteria: the view, the floor and the lift. The view, because it is the purpose of the journey: the Baie des Anges, the cape, or the town; it is checked from the window, not from the listing’s balcony. The floor, because it makes light and quiet. The lift, because a sixth without one resells differently.
Then comes the district: Cimiez and Mont Boron for calm and panorama, the Carré d’Or to do everything on foot, the port for life. The bourgeois buildings of the centre hide very variable charges and conditions: the file decides, not the façade.
French Riviera - Nice - The Baie des Anges in panorama
02Second home
The real question of a second home is the time between stays: who watches, who maintains, who restarts the boiler, who takes the parcels? A simple apartment manages from a distance; a villa asks for a gardener, a monitored pool and someone on site.
Home Select’s finders build this life of the property into the selection itself: co-ownership with or without a caretaker, real charges, air conditioning and terraces to maintain, proximity of amenities for short visits. The right pied-à-terre is the one whose cost and logic of absence have been read before the offer.
The Carré d’Or and the promenade: you arrive, you drop the suitcase, everything is there. The simplest management.
Cimiez, Mont Boron: calm and view, minutes from the centre by road or the hill’s lift.
The port and old Nice: terraces and the market, a year-round Nice, for lively stays.
03Second home
The Nice market is active year-round, with two peaks: spring, March to June, where fine properties trade fast, and the September-October rentrée after the high season. For a remote buyer, these windows combine choice and energy.
The winning sequence is prepared against the calendar: brief in winter, shortlist in spring, targeted trip, signing in autumn. And for the taxation of a second home according to your country of residence, your notary and a tax adviser take over: that is another trade, which Home Select does not mix with the search.
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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. To do everything on foot, the Carré d’Or and the promenade; for calm and panorama, Cimiez and Mont Boron; for neighbourhood life, the port and old Nice. The three criteria that truly decide are view, floor and lift: they are checked on site, co-ownership file in hand.
Nice adds verifiable fundamentals to the pleasure of stays: a town that lives year-round, an international airport and a measured price progression since June 2022 in the published data. A good purchase remains a matter of a precise address: view, floor, charges and price paid decide the outcome. Home Select checks these lines before any offer, and never promises appreciation; the works themselves are priced by an architect or a builder.
By choosing it for that: a co-ownership with a caretaker, charges read, air conditioning and a terrace simple to maintain, amenities nearby. A well-read property manages from abroad or from Paris; the villa asks for someone on site. Home Select builds this logic of absence into the selection from the start.
A targeted two-day trip, yes: it is the only way to check the real view, the quiet and the neighbourhood, and to choose the district. Everything else runs remotely: written brief, video viewings steered by your finder, reports. A power of attorney lets you sign without travelling.
Home Select, a buyer’s agent in Nice, 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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